CHINA Catastrophe : latest - 59 mati, tanah runtuh!!

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Terowong runtuh, 3 mati, 17 terperangkap

BEIJING 16 Nov. - Sekurang-kurangnya tiga orang terbunuh dan 17 lagi dilaporkan masih terperangkap dalam kejadian sebuah terowong sistem metro bawah tanah yang separuh siap, runtuh di bandar Hangzhou di timur laut China, semalam.

Runtuhan itu turut menyebabkan 11 buah kenderaan yang lalu di atas terowong itu terjatuh ke dalam sebuah lubang besar sedalam 15 meter dan 75 meter lebar, yang terbentuk akibat runtuhan itu.

Semasa kejadian, pekerja binaan bersesak-sesak untuk menyelamatkan diri dalam runtuhan itu.

Akibat runtuhan itu kelihatan cerucuk-cerucuk batang besi terkeluar dari lubang besar itu dan memaksa penduduk berhampiran keluar dari kediaman masing-masing untuk menyelamatkan diri.

Menurut Agensi Berita Xinhua, seramai 30 buruh binaan berjaya menaiki lift, namun tiga yang lain terjatuh ke dalam lubang ketika berasak-asak.

Sesetengah buruh yang tidak sempat menyelamatkan diri tertimbus dalam runtuhan terowong itu.

Buruh yang lain pula terpaksa memanjat menggunakan kabel-kabel besi bagi menyelamatkan diri.

Beberapa buah kenderaan termasuk teksi dan bas turut terjatuh akibat runtuhan itu.

Dilaporkan 50 penumpang kenderaan terperangkap setelah terjatuh ke dalam lubang itu, manakala 30 penumpang lain berjaya diselamatkan dan 17 lagi dilaporkan masih hilang.

Usaha menyelamatkan mangsa menghadapi kesukaran apabila air sungai berhampiran mula mengalir memasuki lubang terowong yang runtuh itu.

Tiada sebarang kenyataan dikeluarkan oleh kerajaan berhubung punca kejadian itu setakat ini.

Projek laluan bawah tanah di Hangzhou ini berharga 35 bilion yuan (RM18.5 bilion) dimulakan Mac tahun lalu bagi membina tiga laluan sejauh 70 kilometer dijangka siap pada 2011.

- Reuters


kelmarin  gempa.. hari ni tanah runtuh... seksok.. banjir... byk tol mala petaka kena kat china nih...

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Lapan terbunuh hotel terbakar di China
22/11/2008

BEIJING 22 Nov. – Sekurang-kurangnya lapan orang terbunuh, manakala 16 yang lain cedera apabila sebuah hotel di wilayah Shanxi terbakar hari ini.

Menurut agensi berita Xinhua, kebakaran tersebut memusnahkan sebahagian daripada Hotel Jintian setinggi tujuh tingkat.

Tujuh orang terbunuh di tempat kejadian, manakala seorang lagi meninggal dunia di hospital. - AFP


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Ribuan dipindahkan gempa landa barat daya China

BEIJING: Tiga gempa bumi yang menggegarkan barat daya China menyebabkan 19 orang cedera dan memaksa lebih 10,000 penduduk diarah berpindah, lapor media tempatan hari ini.

Gempa berukuran 4.9 skala Richter yang pertama berlaku jam 4.20 pagi semalam di 10 kilometer (km) dari Ruili, pekan kecil di sempadan China-Myanmar, lapor agensi berita Xinhua.

Gempa berkenaan memusnahkan banyak bangunan kerajaan dan memaksa lebih 30,000 penduduk diletakkan dalam keadaan berjaga-jaga.


Pihak berkuasa kini mula menghantar dan mengagihkan bantuan kemanusiaan, terutama makanan dan ubat-ubatan.

Dua gempa susulan berukuran 4.3 skala Richter di daerah Yiliang, berhampiran wilayah Kunming jam 2.19 pagi ini dengan lebih 100 rumah musnah serta mengakibatkan lebih 1,200 orang di lapan kampung perlu dipindahkan.

Gempa ketika berukuran 4.0 pula berlaku jam 8 pagi berhampiran Wilayah Guizhou tetapi tiada laporan segera mengenai kerosakan dan mangsa yang terbabit. - Reuters




walaupun tak kuat mana..... gempa tetap gempa.. musnahkan harta benda gak...

dexa

Saturday February 7, 2009
China drought deprives millions of drinking water
By Andrew Torchia

SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Millions of people and cattle in north China face shortages of drinking water because of a severe drought, the government said on Saturday, promising to speed up disbursement of billions of dollars of subsidies to farmers.


A local resident walks on a dried-up riverbed of the
Yangtze River in Wuhan, Hubei province
February 7, 2009. (REUTERS/Stringer)

State television quoted disaster relief officials as saying 4.4 million people and 2.1 million cattle lacked adequate drinking water. Official media have described the drought as north China's worst in half a century.

The Ministry of Finance said it would accelerate disbursement of 86.7 billion yuan ($12.7 billion) of annual subsidies for farmers to assist grain production and minimise the impact of the drought on rural incomes.

The government is particularly anxious to avoid a drop in rural incomes because of the threat of social unrest as millions of migrant workers, laid off from urban jobs during China's economic slump, return to the countryside.

Instead of distributing the farm subsidies evenly over this year as it did in the past, the finance ministry said it was immediately disbursing the entire 15.1 billion yuan earmarked to supplement the incomes of grain farmers.

It is also immediately disbursing part of a 71.6 billion yuan sum earmarked to aid capital spending by farmers. The ministry called on provincial governments to deliver that money into the hands of farmers in the worst-hit areas within a month.

However, meteorological officials said there were signs that better rainfall in coming weeks would ease the crisis. Rainfall is forecast for the next 10 days, the official Xinhua news agency quoted the China Meteorological Administration as saying.

Xiao Ziniu, director of China's National Climate Center, was quoted as saying most of north China's wheat belt was expected to receive slightly less than or nearly normal rainfall in March.

Xiao said earlier in the week that losses in China's winter wheat fields could be limited to just 2.5 percent if farmers moved quickly enough to irrigate their fields.

The drought is hitting eight provinces which contain about half of China's wheat-growing areas. As of Friday, 10.7 million hectares of wheat-growing fields had been affected in those provinces, the Ministry of Agriculture said.

Of that area, 4.5 million hectares were seriously damaged and 420,000 hectares suffered destruction of wheat shoots, the ministry said. Just over half of the total affected area had been irrigated so far.

($1 = 6.83 yuan)


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zed - tukar tajuk nanti (baca pm) -
kemarau kat china --  okay -

thanks -

dexa

Salur air dari Sungai Yangtze, Kuning



PARA petani menggunakan timba untuk mengangkut air untuk
kegunaan di kampung mereka di Xiaolangdi di wilayah Henan,
semalam. - REUTERS

BEIJING 8 Feb.

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ebruary 10, 2009 14:22 PM

China's Severe Task In Battling Drought

By Tham Choy Lin

BEIJING, Feb 10 (Bernama) -- In the next two weeks, China will anxiously watch the skies for much-needed rain as it battles to save crops and ensure adequate drinking water in the worst drought gripping the northern swathe of the country in half a century.

"Now is the critical period for the growth of winter crops. If in the next 15 days, there is no effective rain, the situation will be more severe," Water Resources Vice-Minister E Jingping told the media on Tuesday.

He said a "daunting task" was still ahead although the situation had eased considerably in the past two days due to some rainfall and measures to channel waters to hit areas.

Nearly 3.5 million people, 1.66 million livestock and nine million hectares of farm continue to be hit by water shortage.

A scarcity of rain, freeze and earlier irrigation due to the lack of water were the main factors causing the drought, instead of human activity, the vice-minister said. He said water had been channeled to more than 60 per cent of wheat-planted areas at a rate of 600,000 hectares daily, and most affected areas would be irrigated within 10 days.

China has issued the highest emergency to deal with the situation, which is threatening over 40 per cent of the country's winter wheat output.

The drought has spread to 15 provinces and many have been parched without rain for 80 to 100 days.

Water has been diverted from the Yangtze and Yellow Rivers to the affected areas, and last week, rockets and shells were fired into the skies to force down rain through cloud seeding.

Over the weekend, Premier Wen Jiabao had ordered top priority for relief efforts during a visit to Henan province, which provides 10 per cent of the country's agriculture crops and a quarter of wheat yield.

State media reported Wen as saying the fight against drought was crucial to ensure grain supplies and the country's efforts to stimulate domestic demand in the current global economic crisis.

-- BERNAMA



Drying farmland in Huangshan, east China's Anhui Province. The sustained high
temperatures and lack of summer rainfall have affected over 20,000 hectares of f
armland, and led to drinking water shortage in some parts of the city. [China Foto Press]

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Bangunan 25 tingkat di China terbakar

Asap tebal menyelubungi udara apabila bangunan Fuli Yingtai setinggi 25 tingkat di Guangzhou, wilayah Guangdong terbakar semalam. - AFP

BEIJING 20 Feb. - Kebakaran bangunan pencakar langit di bandar Guangzhou, selatan China hari ini menyebabkan seluruh bandar tersebut diselubungi asap.

Agensi berita Xinhua melaporkan, bangunan Fuli Yingtai setinggi 25 tingkat itu terbakar menjelang tengah hari, namun berjaya dipadamkan dengan cepat.

Pegawai jabatan bomba Guangzhou berkata, pihaknya telah menerima aduan dan berkejar ke tempat kejadian.

Bagaimanapun, tiada kecederaan berlaku.

Xinhua berkata, bangunan tersebut masih dalam pembinaan dan kebakaran berpunca dari sistem pendingin hawa pada bahagian bumbung.

Seorang jurujual yang berada di bangunan tersebut ketika itu berkata, kebakaran berlaku dalam masa yang singkat sebelum dipadamkan dan menghasilkan asap yang banyak. - AFP

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Letupan di lombong China: 73 maut

BEIJING: Angka kematian akibat letupan gas di lombong arang batu di utara China, awal hari ini meningkat kepada 73 orang.

Ketika kejadian jam 2 pagi waktu tempatan, lebih 400 pekerja lombong bawah tanah sedang bekerja di lombong yang terletak Taiyuan, ibu negeri wilayah Shanxi.

Seramai 113 pekerja yang berjaya diselamatkan kini dirawat di hospital, termasuk 21 orang dilaporkan parah. - AFP

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73 dead, dozens trapped in Chinese mine: state media

Seventy-three workers were confirmed dead and dozens trapped underground after a gas blast early on Sunday at a Chinese colliery, the worst accident to hit the nation's mines in more than a year.

More than 400 miners were on the job when the explosion ripped through the mine overnight, the official Xinhua news agency reported. Some of the victims died after being rescued from the mine, it said.


The death toll makes this the most lethal accident reported in China's disaster-prone mining industry since 105 people died in a mine explosion in December 2007, also in Shanxi.


President Hu Jintao and Premier Wen Jiabao issued instructions to do everything possible to save those still trapped inside the mine, state television reported.

One man told Xinhua that a mere coincidence had saved him from being among those trapped Sunday at the Tunlan coal mine.

"I should have been among them, had I not changed my shift with another miner," said the man, who declined to be named. "He is still underground. I hope he is alive."

Xinhua said dozens of rescuers had gone underground at midday in search of those still missing. A total of 436 were at work when the blast erupted, and more than 300 miners escaped alive, the agency reported.

According to state media, more than 3,000 people died in Chinese coal mines in 2008.

However independent labour groups have long maintained that China's mining death toll is much higher than the government says, as local mine bosses and regional leaders cover up accidents to avoid fines and costly mine shut downs.

Government figures also show that almost 80 percent of the nation's 16,000 mines are illegal.

Most of the miners rushed to hospital after Sunday's accident had suffered carbon monoxide poisoning, Xinhua said, citing doctors at the Xishan Hospital of Coal and Electricity.

A photo posted online showed one of the survivors, apparently unconscious and with a blackened face, being rushed to medical treatment.

A total of 113 miners were under observation at hospital, including 21 whose injuries were "relatively serious," according to Xinhua.

The mine, which has an annual capacity of five million tonnes, is operated by the Shanxi Jiaomei Group, according to Xinhua.

It said that it was considered a relatively safe mine, with no accidents reported over the past decade.

Zhang Baoshun, the head of the Communist party in Shanxi, told them to take care and avoid getting hurt while carrying out their dangerous work.

China has vowed for years to improve safety at its mines, but has been hampered by a lack of resources to effectively supervise the sprawling industry, a major employer of destitute migrant workers.

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19 maut nahas bas di China

BEIJING: 19 orang terbunuh apabila bas yang sesak dengan penumpang merempuh trak pengangkut di lebuh raya yang diliputi ais di utara timur China, lapor agensi berita Xinhua, hari ini.

Xinhua melaporkan, kemalangan berlaku di jalan yang licin di wilayah Heilongjiang, petang semalam apabila bas terbabit merempuh bahagian belakang trak pengangkut yang dikatakan berhenti selepas melanggar kenderaan lain.

Katanya, bas itu membawa 41 penumpang ketika kejadian berlaku berhampiran wilayah ibu kota Harbin dan mangsa yang cedera di bawa ke hospital berdekatan.


Bagaimanapun, jumlah mangsa yang cedera boleh dapat dipastikan.

Berdasarkan statistik polis, hampir 73,500 nyawa terkorban dalam lebih daripada 265,000 nahas jalan raya di China tahun lalu, iaitu melebihi 200 kematian sehari. - AFP

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18 korban letupan gudang lombong

ANGGOTA penyelamat mencari mangsa letupan dalam gudang dekat lombong arang batu di Hunan. - Reuters

Polis siasat punca ledakan di tengah China

BEIJING: Seramai 18 orang terbunuh dan tiga lagi cedera dalam satu letupan di sebuah gudang dekat lombong arang batu di bahagian tengah China, kata pihak berkuasa wilayah, semalam.

Televisyen tempatan pula melaporkan, enam orang cedera dalam letupan itu di wilayah pergunungan terpencil Hunan, tengah hari kelmarin, menyebabkan dua lagi hilang.


Seorang lelaki dikenali sebagai Hu dari Biro Keselamatan Pekerjaan wilayah Hunan berkata, lombong milik persendirian itu dikendalikan secara haram dan polis sedang menyiasat asal usul bahan letupan berkenaan.

Beliau juga enggan memberi maklumat lanjut kes berkenaan selain mengatakan kejadian letupan masih disiasat.

Satu laporan berdasarkan CCTV pula menyatakan bahawa seorang pemegang saham lombong itu sudah ditahan polis dan pihak berkuasa sedang memburu beberapa lagi pemilik.
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Polis juga memberi tumpuan siasatan sama ada bahan letupan disimpan secara haram di dalam gudang lombong Daling di daerah Yongxing, kata laporan.

Rakaman televisyen menunjukkan bangunan itu hampir rata akibat letupan dengan sebuah trak kemek teruk selepas melantun 50 meter dari tempat kejadian.

Lombong tidak berlesen berjumlah hampir 80 peratus daripada sejumlah 16,000, menurut perangkaan kerajaan. - AP

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59 tertimbus dalam kejadian tanah runtuh di China
05/06/2009

CHONGQING 5 Jun - Dianggarkan 59 orang hari ini tertimbus dalam satu kejadian tanah runtuh di kawasan perlombongan di wilayah Chongqing, barat daya China.

Kejadian itu berlaku pukul 3 petang ini di kawasan perlombongan Gunung Jiwei, di bandar Tiekung, negeri Wulong.

Berjuta-juta meter kubik batu menenggelamkan kampung, menimbus lombong besi dan enam rumah.

Ketua Parti Komunis Wulong, Liu Qi memberitahu Xinhua kawasan tersebut didiami 59 berdasarkan laporan yang dikeluarkan oleh pihak berkuasa tempatan.

Tanah runtuh itu juga menyebabkan bekalan elektrik dan komunikasi terputus di kebanyakan tempat di bandar itu. - Bernama

   

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Berpuluh dikhuatiri maut tanah runtuh di China


BEIJING: Beratus anggota penyelamat bertungkus-lumus mengesan sekurang-kurangnya berpuluh mangsa dipercayai mati akibat tertimbus tanah runtuh di kaki gunung di barat daya China, hari ini.

Sementara itu, seramai 79 orang masih hilang dalam kejadian yang berlaku di daerah perlombongan, Chongqing di Wulong.

Timbalan Perdana Menteri, Zhang Dejiang turut tiba di lokasi tanah runtuh awal hari ini untuk memantau operasi menyelamat, lapor agensi berita Xinhua.


Setakat ini, tujuh mangsa yang masih hidup berjaya dikeluarkan dari tempat tanah runtuh dengan tiga orang mengalami kecederaan serius.

Kejadian tanah runtuh itu berlaku di kawasan pedalaman Jiwei di Daerah Wulong.

Pada September tahun lalu, 276 orang terbunuh di wilayah utara Shanxi akibat kejadian tanah runtuh selepas sebuah kolam takungan lombong pecah. - AFP