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Chinese vice premier calls for strengthened efforts to fight floods |
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Chinese Vice Premier Hui Liangyu has urged local governments and officials to continue their efforts in flood control.
HuiĦA also chief of the State Flood Control and Drought Relief HeadquartersĦA |
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Floods put Three Gorges Dam to the test |
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FLOOD waters are putting China's massive Three Gorges Dam to the test and raising water levels on its longest river, the Yangtze, after weeks of floods nationwide killed about 700 people, Xinhua news agency said today. |
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Central China braces for biggest flood crest of Yangtze River |
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The Three Gorges Dam is preparing to control the biggest flood crest from the upper Yangtze River this year to protect the middle and lower reaches as central China's Hubei province goes on high flood alert.
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Shanghai weather bureau issues storm alerts |
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THE Shanghai Meteorological Bureau issued alerts for rain and thunderstorms today.
Rain is forecast in the next three hours as the bureau issued a yellow alert for a rainstorm at 2:42pm. Up to 50 millimeters |
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Killer storms hammer provinces |
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FIERCE storms and hail have killed at least 11 people in central and eastern China, adding to more than 700 killed this summer in floods, landslides and other natural disasters.
Ten deaths occurred in |
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Villagers ordered to leave flood diversion area |
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ABOUT 27,000 villagers in the Linbei Flood Diversion Area near the swollen Huaihe River of Anhui Province have been ordered to evacuate by 7pm today, Xinhua news agency reported.
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Evacuations ordered in flood diversion areas |
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FLOOD control authorities in China's eastern Anhui Province today ordered three city-level subordinates to evacuate up to 180,000 residents to prepare for imminent floodwater diversions.
The Flood Control |
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Anhui opens seventh flood buffer zone |
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ANHUI Province opened its seventh flood buffer zone in Shiyao Bay, home to more than 10,000 residents, to reduce flood peaks, Xinhua news agency reported yesterday.
The zone is 19.3 square kilometers and 150 |
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Sophisticated equipment helps PLA to fight floods |
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The Pontoon Brigade of Nanjing Military Area has stockpiled some highly sophisticated equipment to fight the floods that have battered south China since the end of June.
Torrential rain began lashing |
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Sluices on Huaihe River closed to prepare for bigger floods |
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Authorities on China's Huaihe River closed one of the major flood diversion channels on Thursday in anticipation of further flood peaks to come.
Thirteen sluices at Wangjiaba, a key hydrological |
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Huaihe floodwaters diverted to farmland |
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ALL 13 sluice gates of a reservoir in Anhui Province were opened at 11am today to divert floodwaters from the Huaihe River.
ĦĦĦĦFloodwaters are running down from the Wangjiaba Reservoir to the Mengwa Flood |
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China opens sluices to divert floodwater from Huaihe River |
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The sluices of Wangjiaba£Ĵ a key hydrological station on the Huaihe River£Ĵ were opened Tuesday noon to divert the floodwater to adjacent Mengwa buffer zone.
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Rainstorm kills 17, 33 missing in Shaanxi |
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TORRENTIAL rain and lightning storms have left 17 people dead and 33 missing in China's northwestern Shaanxi Province, destroying thousands of homes, as well as blocking roads and cutting power supplies since Monday.
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Floods, mudflows leave 7 dead, 2 missing in SW China province |
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Seven people have died and two are missing after rains triggered floods and rock-mud in southwest China's Yunnan ProvinceĦA local government sources said on Thursday.
Five people were killed by |
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21 dead, 18 missing following NW China flood |
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A total of 21 people have now been confirmed dead and another 18 are still missing as a result of flooding in northwest China's Shaanxi ProvinceĦA triggered by heavy rain last Saturday.
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Fifty-one dead or missing after latest rainstorms in China |
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Twenty-seven people are dead and 24 are missing after new rainstorms hit many parts of ChinaĦA according to government sources.
In the worst-hit northwestern Shaanxi ProvinceĦA 16 people died and |
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Rainstorm death toll hits 80 in Hubei |
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FLOODS and landslides caused by heavy rain have killed 80 people in central Hubei Province since China entered its annual rain season on June 17, provincial officials said.
Twenty-eight were missing after |
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Drought affects 320,000 people in east China province |
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More than 320ĦA000 people in Jiangxi Province are suffering from drinking water shortage due to a severe droughtĦA the provincial flood control and drought relief headquarters said on Wednesday.
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