Cracked reservoirs endanger 47 000 in China

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Beijing - More than 125 000 people were left homeless after an earthquake in south-west China killed four, injured nearly 600 and cracked walls in reservoirs posing a threat to villages downstream, Xinhua news agency said on Thursday.

The quake, measuring 5.6 on the open-ended Richter scale, rocked the county of Ludian in Yunnan province on Tuesday, collapsing more than 18,000 houses and damaging 45 000 others. Relief workers were rushing tents, medicine and food to the disaster area, Xinhua said.

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[Nambe]

1. I've gotten to know a young chinese man via business e-mail.

Now this kind of news gets my attention. Maybe I should send him a kayak. If he is an example of Chinese youth, I'll look forward to visiting there one day.

[Surf Cowboy]

2. Make sure you send him a life-vest, too.

And a paddle. You don't ever want to be up a creek without one.