Flora Anade was one of the first to receive help from the Peace Ark when the Chinese hospital ship arrived in the typhoon-ravaged Philippine city of Tacloban on Sunday on its disaster-relief mission. When Super Typhoon Haiyan hit her house on Nov 8, Anade crouched down and buried her head in her hands as protection from the collapsing ceiling.
Having lived aboard the Peace Ark for a couple of months off and on, I have started thinking of it as home.
Early in November, Chen Ping arrived in Beijing on what was likely to be her last trip to the capital.
The Chinese leadership has listed combating the abuse of power as a priority of its reforms.
Grassroots political activity came to the fore at the recent Third Plenum, when the body's members agreed to add the promotion of democratic politics in China's rural areas to the reform agenda.
Editor's note: Chen Tao is a professor with the social work research center of the China Youth University for Political Sciences in Beijing.
Mark Yoma, 42, squatted beside a small stack of burning garbage in a deserted street in Tacloban, capital of the Philippine province of Leyte.
This is my second voyage on the Peace Ark. When I left after about two-thirds of the hospital ship's 118-day medical services voyage, I didn't expect to be back on board so soon.
As the death toll from Friday morning's explosion in Qingdao, Shandong province, rose to 52 on Sunday, officials ruled out the possibility of further blasts but said they will continue to monitor the situation closely. Eleven people are still missing and 136 are receiving hospital treatment. Officials said the blast happened when crude oil that had leaked from a ruptured pipeline ignited in storm drains in the Huangdao district.
In addition to the deaths, injuries and damage to the city of Qingdao, Friday's explosion has resulted in the threat of oil-based pollution of the ocean.
Just about the last thing Zhang Changhua and her family wanted to do was to act like tourists and go out into the wintry streets on a cold night in Harbin, famed for its ice festival.
On Monday, China announced its first National Strategy for Climate Change Adaptation at the 2013 UN Climate Change Conference in Warsaw, Poland. The move signaled that the issue is now at the very top of the government's agenda, said sources at Xinhua News Agency.
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