As earthquake survivors braced themselves for the possibilities of more aftershocks on Tuesday, reports emerged of a man being rescued after spending 179 hours trapped under a heap of rubble in China's devastated Sichuan province. Ma Yuanjiang, a 31-year-old power plant executive, was at a meeting when the massive earthquake struck on May 12 and his office building in Wenchuan County collapsed around him, the Chinese state news agency Xinhua reported. Rescuers spotted him Monday while working to free one of his colleagues, but it took them more than 30 hours to get Ma out. While rescuers worked, they kept Ma alive by sending him sugar water to drink through a long straw. When Ma was finally pulled free at 5 a.m. local time on Tuesday, he was able to speak and eat, fellow power plant employee Wu Geng said. The other colleague rescued at the Yingxiu Bay hydro power plant could only be freed after having her legs amputated during a more than...
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Rescuers in China pulled a woman from beneath the rubble Friday who had been trapped for four days, as a strong new aftershock shook the region near the epicentre of Monday's deadly earthquake....
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A strong earthquake jolted northern Japan early Thursday, injuring at least 99 people and affecting output at some high-tech factories. Hundreds were trapped in trains after the preliminary...
Rescue workers in Dujiangyan, China's southwestern Sichuan province continued a frantic rescue operation on Wednesday (May 14), to save more children trapped in the rubble of one of the schools,...
Oil prices continued to drop from record peaks on Thursday, boosting Asian investor confidence and the buying power of the U.S. dollar. The fall came on the back of a recent 15% slide in crude...
China issued an appeal for heavy machinery Thursday, as rescuers dug for survivors and bodies near the epicentre of the massive earthquake that struck the country three days ago. China's...
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