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CCTV News
| Apr 26, 2013
Chinese citizens have been intensely following rescue and recovery efforts in China's Sichuan Province, after the region suffered its second major earthquake since 2008. China's CCTV presents the latest updates on the damage, while LinkAsia's Jing...
Al Jazeera English
| Apr 22, 2013
Earthquake victims in remote villages in southwest China say they have been forgotten by the government and are desperate for aid. They are afraid that aftershocks will destroy what little they have left. Al Jazeera's Rob McBride reports fro...
Euronews
| Apr 21, 2013
Chinese state media has shown images of the country's Premier, Li Keqiang, visiting the victims of the devastating earthquake in China's Sichuan province. The 6.6 magnitude quake struck the mostly rural and mountainous region to the southwest of t...
Euronews
| Apr 20, 2013
A 6.6 magnitude earthquake has struck China's southwestern Sichuan province. Reports suggest that scores of people have been killed and over 2,000 injured. The quake was felt in neighboring provinces causing people to flee buildings in search of s...
NTDTV
| Mar 7, 2013
A Sichuan official said on Thursday authorities there will continue to crack down on Tibetan self-immolation protests. Addressing the National People's Congress in Beijing, Zhang Dongsheng continued to blame the protests on Tibet's exiled spiritua...
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CCTV News
| Jan 1, 2013
State-run CCTV News provides the Chinese government's perspective on the trial of two Tibetan monks who allegedly encouraged young Tibetans to self-immolate in protest of Chinese occupation. The trial is currently underway in Aba, Sichuan province...
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CCTV News
| Dec 21, 2012
A jewelry store in Sichuan province held an unorthodox kissing competition this week. Couples had to kiss while the woman's feet remained off the ground as long as possible. State-run CCTV News reports that the winners won matching rings for their...
LinkAsia
| Dec 14, 2012
In the face of mounting Tibetan protests, China arrested two Tibetan monks this past week for supposedly inciting self-immolations. What do these arrests mean for China's policy towards Tibetan protest? LinkAsia speaks with Columbia University's R...
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CCTV News
| Dec 10, 2012
Information on the recent wave of Tibetan self-immolations had been largely absent from state-run CCTV News until today. In this piece, the network reports on two Tibetan monks arrested by Chinese authorities in Sichuan province for "inciting self...
NTDTV
| Dec 8, 2012
Droves of people in China's Sichuan province are buying up every available candle after rumors went viral across microblog website Sina Weibo that the Earth will soon be cast in three days of darkness. The fears are based on the Mayan calendar, wh...
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Sichuan is a province of the People's Republic of China, located in the southwest of the country. The current name of the province, "四川", is an abbreviation of "四川路", or "Four circuits of rivers", which is itself abbreviated from "川峡四路", or "Four circuits of rivers and gorges", named after the division of the existing circuit into four during the Northern Song Dynasty. The capital is Chengdu, a key economic centre of Western China.
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