Archive for May, 2008

Grief turns to anger over shoddy school buildings

Saturday, May 24th, 2008

A MAN is angrily pointing at what used to be Fuxing No 2 Primary School, a pile of rubble surrounded by a number of administrative buildings only lightly damaged by last week’s earthquake.
Sneakers and schoolbags are sticking out of the wreckage or lying around the site. Jiang Xujun puts down the picture of his dead [...]

A nation’s heart ripped apart

Saturday, May 17th, 2008

Getting into Beichuan

Friday, May 16th, 2008

Loss of the ‘little friends’ felt hardest by quake survivors

Wednesday, May 14th, 2008

Thoughts from a journalist based in Beijing, China.