Local residents walk in front of their newly-built house in Ulugqat county, northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, October 13, 2008. Life and work are returning to normal in the quake-hit areas since quake shook. Full story
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LHASA, Oct. 11 (Xinhua) -- An earthquake followed by some 1,000 aftershocks has affected more than 60,000 people in the Tibet Autonomous Region this week, the local government said in a news conference Saturday.
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LHASA, Oct. 9 (Xinhua) -- Southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region government is giving 5,000 yuan (733 U.S. dollars) each to the relatives of 10 victims killed in the magnitude-6.6 quake on Monday.
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BEIJING, Oct. 8 (Xinhua) -- An aftershock measuring 5.4 on the Richter scale jolted Damxung County in southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region at 10:07 p.m. on Wednesday, the China Earthquake Administration said.
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The central government is sending officials to Tibet as part of quake relief, following a tremor that left 10 confirmed dead and another 34 injured, the State Disaster Relief Commission said Tuesday.
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Life and work are returning to normal in the quake-hit areas after a 6.8-magnitude earthquake shook Ulugqat county in Xinjiang, on October 5, 2008, causing no casualties but 721 collapsed houses.
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BEIJING, Oct. 11 (Xinhua) -- Construction authorities in west China's Tibet and Xinjiang regions are inspecting the integrity of public buildings after two strong earthquakes shook the remote areas last weekend.
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URUMQI, Oct. 9 (Xinhua) -- Tents, winter clothing and medicine were badly needed in quake-hit Wuqia County, a mountainous area also swept by continuous rain in the far west of China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, local authorities said here on Thursday.
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BEIJING -- A total of 2,000 tents, 3,000 winter clothes and 3,000 quilts were distributed to earthquake-stricken areas in west China on Tuesday.
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U.S. presidential candidate John McCain waves to his supporters at a campaign in Prescott, Arizona of the United States, Nov. 4, 2008. McCain campaigned on Tuesay in his final stop in Prescott.
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Rescue and relief operations are underway following the strong earthquake that hit China's Tibet Autonomous Region ten days ago. The arrival of relief supplies has helped people in the disaster-hit region to continue their daily lives.
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Li Suzhi (L), director of the General Hospital of Tibet's Area Command of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) takes an appendicitis excision operation for a resident suffered from earthquake in Yangyi Village of Gedar Township in Damxung County, an outer county of Lhasa, capital of southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region, Oct. 10, 2008.
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An elder woman reads scripture in front of a relief tent in Yangyi Village of Gedar Township in Damxung County, an outer county of Lhasa, capital of southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region, Oct. 10, 2008. Relief materials such as tents, food and water are now being trucked into the Tibetan villages hit by a 6.6-magnitude earthquake on Oct. 6 to help local residents.
