South Korea decided to offer emergency relief aid of US$1 million to China's northwestern province of Qinghai hit by a 7.1-magnitude earthquake Wednesday, Seoul's Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade said in a press release Friday.
Altitude sickness, sharp nighttime temperature drops, and dirt and dust clouds: Rescuers from the country's public security services are having to overcome special difficulties as they save lives and keep order in quake-hit Yushu.
About 500 Tibetan interpreters nationwide have been mobilized to join rescue operations in Yushu of northwestern Qinghai Province which was hit by a devastating earthquake on Wednesday.
African ministers attending the disaster risk conference in Nairobi on Friday observed a minute's silence in honor of victims of the strong earth quake that hit a western region of China.
The Ministry of Health has asked local health authorities to make detailed plans for transferring patients from quake-hit areas to hospitals in other areas to ensure timely and effective treatment.
Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao arrived in Yushu to inspect the disaster relief work and visit quake-affected local people on April 15, 2010.
A Beijing mobile army hospital that worked to save lives in the Wenchuan earthquake will send 176 rescuers to the quake-hit Yushu prefecture of Qinghai.
The 11th Panchen Lama, Bainqen Erdini Qoigyijabu, has donated 100,000 yuan to help quake relief in the northwestern province of Qinghai.
About 200,000 books on quake relief and response knowledge with Tibetan-language translation had been sent for print with urgency, and will be delivered via the special transportation route to the quake-hit areas on Friday.
Teachers at a primary school in Yushu had to dig with their bare hands through concrete ruins to rescue their students trapped below.
Vast supplies of urgently needed necessities such as food, tents and clothes are racing against time and tight traffic to reach 100,000 people affected by the earthquake in Yushu prefecture.
High altitudes, rugged terrain and limited logistics support in quake-hit Yushu prefecture of Northwest China's Qinghai province have made rescue and relief work difficult, an official said on Thursday.
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