China Insurers Pay $165M For Snow Damage
From AP via Seattlepi.com : Chinese insurers have paid more than 1.2 billion yuan, or $165 million, for deaths and damage from snowstorms that killed at least 107 people, said officials quoted...
View ArticleSorry Seems To Be the Newest Word
From BBC: It is not unusual for China’s most senior leaders to meet with the Chinese people but it is rare for them to do so with an apology on their lips. … And as someone in the state media told me,...
View ArticlePhotos: Endless Queue for Water in Wuhan after the Snowstorm
When I was in elementary school, our geography teacher told us how Lanzhou city in the northwest desert area of China had suffered from a water shortage. He said the city relied on the water cart...
View ArticleSnowstorms Let China’s Economy Off The Hook
Overseas political commentator Liang Jing wrote following essay, thanks to Dr. David Kelly for the translation: A very important item of information spread around Beijing’s dining and mahjong tables...
View Article180,000 Stranded As Cold Weather Returns
Southern China, a future skiing destination? The prospect doesn’t seem so outlandish as Yunnan gets slammed by another round of nasty winter weather, from AFP: The latest cold weather has taken a...
View ArticlePower Returns, But at What Cost?
Mixed messages from China’s state-run media today on the resumption of electricity in the wake of this month’s catastrophic southern snow storms. First is a rah-rah report from China Daily, “Full power...
View ArticleSnow Sweeps Away The Confidence Of Those In Power In China
Overseas political commentator Liang Jing wrote following essay, thanks to Dr. David Kelly for the translation: China’s 2008 snow storms are still far from approaching an end: tens of millions of...
View ArticleGreen Cost of Sleet: $8b of Forest Wealth
Yes, China lost a lot of tons of vegetables and crops in the wake of mega snowstorms. Also gone are slowly recovered forests, says China Daily: About 18.6 million hectares of forests were destroyed or...
View ArticleChinese Media Highlight Information Access As the Railway Ministry Faces Off...
On the China Media Project, David Bandurski writes: … we now have the first real rumblings of contention over government missteps, and the debate has been set off not by bolder media but by a...
View ArticleChina Storms Kill 129, Economic Loss at $21 Billion (Update2)
How much did China’s worst snowstorms in five decades cost? According to Bloomberg, $21 billion in direct economic loss and 129 people died: Blizzards, ice and freezing temperatures since January have...
View ArticleForests’ Recovery Will Take Decades
Many have seen the once-in-50-years magnitude of this year’s snowstorms that hit central and south China, yet the consequences have yet to be felt in the years, even decades, ahead, according to China...
View ArticleHigh-level Fury: Snowstorm Broke 10,000 Sub-standard Electricity Poles
A recent report, purported to come from the Beijing News (新京报), exposes massive electrical pole failures in Guizhou during this winter’s freak snowstorms. Despite appearing to have been removed from...
View ArticleUnderstanding Extreme Weather in China
On China Dialogue, Pew Center on Global Climate Change answers questions about the linkage between global warming and recent natural disasters in China, including this winter’s snowstorms: What are the...
View ArticleChina’s Inauspicious Year
In The Nation, Jeffrey Wasserstrom writes about the series of major events that have gripped China so far this year: the anti-Maglev protests in Shanghai, the crippling snowstorms in February, the...
View ArticleOverseas Chinese Donations Exceed 1.5 Billion Yuan for Snow, Quake Zones
From CRIEnglish.com: Donations for snow-ravaged and earthquake-hit areas of China from overseas Chinese exceeded 1.5 billion yuan (219 million U.S. dollars), said the Overseas Chinese Affairs Office of...
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