Powerful love no quake could ever shake

CHENGDU: When the first rescue chopper came for Liu Dairong, who was unscathed by the May 12 earthquake, about two weeks ago, she refused to get onboard. She didn't have the heart to leave her husband Xie Dehua, whose arm and leg were injured in the disaster, alone on the mountainside in Chengqiangyan city, Guangyuan county, where the couple worked as miners.

The power of their love deeply touched rescuers, who airlifted the couple to safety on Friday morning.

"I think she is great, because she didn't leave her partner when the situation was so dangerous," Tsoi Tak Man, a winch operator from the Hong Kong special administrative region government's flight service, said.