China correspondent Huey Fern Tay, Henan province A $62 billion water project in China is aiming to provide water to the country's drought-hit areas. The middle section of the water diversion scheme,...
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Earthquake volunteers at risk: study
By Carl Holm for ABC Science Online As Christchurch continues to clean up the mess caused by last month's earthquake, a new study has found rescue workers are often the unrecognised sufferers in the...
More than 400,000 evacuated in China quake
Emergency officials in China have been evacuating more than 400,000 people from a mountainous area in Yunnan province hit by a moderate earthquake on Friday. One person was killed, 300 injured and...
Chinese government to spend money on making schools more earthquake resistant
The Chinese government says it will spend an extra $US1.17 billion this year on making schools in earthquake prone areas safer. More than 80,000 people were killed and thousands more listed as...
China quake claimed 19,000 in school collapses
Chinese authorities have revealed for the first time that around 19,000 children were killed in the earthquake in Sichuan province in May . They say many died as a result of school building...
8,000 soldiers deployed for China quake rescue
China has deployed more than 8,000 soldiers and military reservists to help search and rescue efforts in the south-west after an earthquake with a magnitude of 6.8 killed 38 people. The weekend quake...
China unprepared for severe weather, says meteorology chief
China's chief meteorologist has admitted the country wasn't prepared for the severe winter weather that has stranded millions of people struggling to get home for Lunar New Year. The blizzards and...
Water supply restored in Chinese city of Harbin
Mains water has been restored to nearly four million people in the northeastern Chinese city of Harbin, five days after supplies were cut by a toxic spill in the city's river. State media reports say...
Typhoon lashes eastern China
A typhoon has made landfall in the eastern Chinese province of Zhejiang, forcing the evacuation of more than a million people, the cancellation of hundreds of flights and driving thousands of ships...
Death toll rises in China floods
At least 46 people have died in torrential rain lashing southern China. The 46 have died in flash floods and landslides in three southern provinces and regions, with another 28 reported missing,...
Chinese flood death toll set to rise
Reports in China say a flood that swept through a primary school in the northwestern city of Ning'an last week may have killed as many as 200 people. The official death toll stands at 92, including...
China: Yangtze flood waters rising
Officials in China say water levels in the Yangtze River are reaching warning levels. Runoff from heavy downpours in the provinces of Hunan and Jiangxi is moving down the Yangtze to Wuhan, the...
Hundreds killed in southern China floods
Nearly 400 people have died in flooding in China. Our China correspondent, John Taylor, reports 381 people are thought to have lost their lives as torrential rain lashes much of southern China. ...
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Vietnamese told to expect Mekong floods
Torrential rains and flooding rivers have devastated large areas of Asia in the past two weeks. China has been one of the countries hardest hit this monsoon season. State media confirms that around...
Thousands of Chinese still homeless after floods
The International Federation of the Red Cross says about 10-thousand people are still homeless as winter approaches in areas of eastern China, devastated by floods along the Yangtze River. Most of...
Chinese authorities warn millions to prepare for floods
Government authorities and aid agencies in China have begun warning millions of locals to prepare for fresh flooding along the Yellow River. The warnings after last year's flood disaster which...
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Asian floods claim more than 1,000 lives
The combined death tolls from floods in east and South-East Asia, including China, have now passed 1,000, with other fatalities in South Korea, Japan, Thailand and the Philippines. Rescue workers in...
Death toll in Yangtze flooding in southwest China rises to 300
The death toll in the summer flooding along the Yangtze river in southwest China has risen to 297. Heavy rains in Yunnan province has left 31 people dead, and in neighbouring Sichuan province, a...
Forty-seven-thousand evacuated as Yangtze river rises to new levels
More than 47-thousand people have been evacuated from central China's Hubei province as the Yangtze river tops emergency levels and threatens a repeat of last year's disastrous floods. A flood...
Tens of thousands of tourists rescued from China floods
China says tens of thousands of tourists stranded in the flood-stricken Three Gorges Dam area, have been moved to safety. China's official Xinhua newsagency says the government in central Hubei...