XINXIANG, China — The night the rains came, all Yu Ruiping could do was huddle in her market stall. The electricity went out. Her phone went dead. And the water just kept rising. When the skies cleared, the market was surrounded by chest-high water — trapping Yu and […]
BEIJING, July 27 – Journalists from several media outlets covering recent floods in China were harassed online and by local residents, with staff from the BBC and Los Angeles Times receiving death threats, according to the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of China (FCCC). In a statement on Tuesday, the […]
BEIJING — Typhoon In-fa hit China’s east coast south of Shanghai on Sunday after people living near the sea were evacuated, airline flights and trains were canceled and the public was ordered to stay indoors. The typhoon made landfall in Zhoushan in Zhejiang province, state TV reported, citing […]
BEIJING — China’s military has blasted a dam to release floodwaters threatening one of its most heavily populated provinces, as the death toll in widespread flooding rose to at least 25. The dam operation was carried out late Tuesday night in the city of Luoyang, just as severe […]
Summary Heavy rains lash Henan since weekend; more rain forecast Provincial capital Zhengzhou, dozen more cities flooded Twelve die in flooded subway of provincial capital ‘Flood prevention efforts very difficult’, says Xi ‘No direct impact’ on Zhengzhou iPhone assembly plant -Foxconn BEIJING, July 21 – At least 25 […]
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