About 2:20 pm on May 12, young Deng Lijun - with the same name as the late singing legend Teresa Teng from the 1980s - made her way down three flights of stairs to the restroom, 10 minutes before joining her classmates in their exercises. She was allowed to leave early because her left leg, hindered by polio, made walking difficult.
Zhang Yaqiu, a senior high school student from Mianzhu, 15 km south of quake epicenter Wenchuan, sits in a makeshift tarp tent in Yinghua square and has her face buried in textbooks and notes she dug out from the rubble.
For 58-year-old Shi Yanfen, the distance between life and death had never been so close.
Chinese insurance companies have so far paid 18.2 million yuan in claims related to the country's 8.0-magnitude earthquake, amid calls for the speedier establishment of a catastrophe insurance scheme to spread risks.
China National Offshore Oil Corp (CNOOC), the country's largest offshore oil producer, plans to donate 500 million yuan over five years for post-quake reconstruction.
Tremor of the May 12 earthquake is more likely to be felt in macroeconomic regulations as inflation continued to hover above 8 percent in April.
Taking its cue from the stock dive in Hong Kong, the mainland market plunged 4.48 percent yesterday, led by large caps.
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