On Olympics Eve, Complaints About Lack of Human Rights in China Aug 8, 2008
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Torch arrives in Sichuan Aug 3, 2008
Guang'an was the first leg of the torch relay in Sichuan province, to be followed by Leshan and the provincial capital Chengdu. Sichuan province is the last point for the Olympic flame before it proceeds to Beijing for the opening ceremony of the Games on Friday. (India Times, India)
Strong aftershocks kill one, injure 17 in Sichuan Jul 25, 2008
They were felt in the cities of Guangyuan, Chengdu, Mianyang, Deyang and Leshan of Sichuan Province. The center also monitored several aftershocks below magnitude 4. (Xinhuanet, China)
Rainstorm leaves three dead, one missing in SW China Jul 22, 2008
The heavy rain also swept Suining and Leshan cities, leaving one dead, one missing and 23 injured. Some 253 rooms collapsed in the rainstorms, which triggered 50 sites of landslide and damaged large sections of roads. (Xinhuanet, China)
On Your Left: The Unabomber's Cabin Jun 22, 2008
These cities are Dazhou, Guang'an, Leshan, Liangshan, Luzhou, Meishan, Nanchong, Neijiang, Panzhihua, Suining, Yibin, Zigong and Ziyang ... Other popular places such as Jiuzhaigou Scenic Spot, Ermei Mountain and the Leshan Giant Buddha were undamaged. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Travel)
* Tourism sector suffers after Sichuan earthquake May 26, 2008
Besides the Dujiangyang irrigation system, the worlds oldest such operation, there is the Giant Buddha carved in the cliff near Leshan. The regions we wanted to visit are no longer accessible, said Gerald Cochois, 60, a French tourist traveling with his daughter. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
'Shock of consciousness' in wake of temblor May 18, 2008
In the city of Leshan, more than 400 kilometres from the earthquake, a former soldier named Shao Zhi saw the disaster coverage on television. I can't just sit here, he told his family. (Globe and Mail)
Eyewitnesses' fear and shock May 14, 2008
GAODONG, STUDENT, LESHAN. During the earthquake, everything shook, objects fell over. (BBC News -- Asia-Pacific)
ON Semiconductor will reopen factory in China May 13, 2008
Phoenix-based ON Semiconductor Corp. plans to reopen its chip factory in Leshan, China, today after evacuations following Monday's earthquake in Chongquing, 130 miles away. Spokeswoman Anne Spitza said none of the plant's nearly 2,500 employees were injured. (AZCentral -- Business)
Earthquake measuring 7.8 Richter scale hits SW China May 12, 2008
A retiree in Leshan, a city of the southwestern Sichuan Province, said via telephone that a wall in her garden collapsed, while a repairman in Chongqing saw the ceiling of his factory shamble and alarmed the staff, who soon left the building. In Shanghai, people were evacuated from office buildings in Hongqiao and Nanjing Road. (Xinhuanet, China)
Experts: Students must have an international focus Dec 24, 2007
After a trip to Leshan, China, as part of the Gilbert Sister Cities Exchange Program, Gilbert Superintendent Brad Barrett said he decided to seek board approval to add the language. Barrett and other educators were motivated to take the trip after reading Thomas Friedman's 2005 best-seller The World Is Flat, which shows how the United States already is competing with the Chinese in the same marketplace. (AZCentral -- News)
Tallest Buddha statue to get a facelift Nov 7, 2007
BEIJING: The world's tallest statue of Buddha, also known as Leshan Buddha, in southwest China's Sichuan Province, is set to receive another facelift, the state media reported ... The UN-listed world cultural heritage statue has a blackened nose, and moss and dark streaks coated on its face and body, Peng Xueyi, director of the Leshan Cultural Relics Management Institute, said ... The Buddha statue, carved from a cliff in Leshan Mountain and overlooking three converging rivers, was built over 90... (India Times, India)
China vows new facelift for pollution-battered Buddha Nov 7, 2007
Carved out off a cliff beside a river, the 71-metre (233-ft) image of the seated Buddha at Leshan in the southwestern province of Sichuan is a magnet for tourists and the focus of local pride ... Visitors walk down steps beside the Leshan Giant Buddha statue in Leshan in southwest China's Sichuan province in this August 29, 2005 file photo ... But Peng Xueyi, director of the Leshan Cultural Relics Management Institute, said the crumbling statue could only survive if pollution lacing air and rain... (The Star Online, Malaysia -- News)
Coal's environmental impact far-flung Nov 5, 2007
LESHAN, China A few years back, the Leshan Giant Buddha started to weep ... More than 80% of China's 33 U.N.-designated World Heritage sites, including the Leshan Buddha, have been damaged by air pollution and acid rain, mostly from the burning of coal, according to China's official Xinhua News Agency ... The 19-story-high Leshan Buddha, with a head that appears lost in the trees, stares down on the confluence of three rivers. (USA Today -- Money)
Coal's Other Victim: China's History Nov 5, 2007
(LESHAN, China) A few years back, the Leshan Giant Buddha started to weep ... More than 80 percent of China's 33 U.N.-designated World Heritage sites, including the Leshan Buddha, have been damaged by air pollution and acid rain, mostly from the burning of coal, according to China's official Xinhua News Agency ... The 19-story-high Leshan Buddha, with a head that appears lost in the trees, stares down on the confluence of three rivers. (Time.com)
China's dependence on coal damaging country's historic sites Nov 4, 2007
LESHAN, China (AP): A few years back, the Leshan Giant Buddha started to weep ... More than 80 percent of China's 33 U.N.-designated World Heritage sites, including the Leshan Buddha, have been damaged by air pollution and acid rain, mostly from the burning of coal, according to China's official Xinhua News Agency ... "They are totally unaware of the value of cultural heritage,'' he said, likening the destruction to that of cultural relics during the Great Leap Forward in the late 1950s and the... (The Star Online, Malaysia -- News)
* Separate accidents in China kill seven, injure at least 20 Jun 7, 2007
Meanwhile, at least 20 people were injured, two of them seriously, after dozens were trapped under rubble from a collapsed building yesterday in the southwestern city of Leshan, officials and state media said ... 20am, a Leshan government official said ... Leshan is a popular tourist destination 100km southwest of Chengdu, the provincial capital of Sichuan Province, and famous for its Grand Buddha, carved into a cliff face and standing more than 70m high. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- Business)
Chinese Building Collapse Traps Dozens Jun 6, 2007
At least 100 people, mostly retirees, were inside the former agriculture exhibition center in Leshan city, Sichuan province, when it collapsed. More than 30 survivors have been pulled from the rubble and sent to a hospital, Xinhua News Agency said. (Fox News)
20 Hurt in Building Collapse in China Jun 6, 2007
At least 90 people, mostly retirees, were inside the former agriculture exhibition center in Leshan city, Sichuan province, state media said. Xinhua News Agency said more than 30 people were trapped in the rubble and had to be rescued. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- World)
Chinese hall collapse traps many Jun 6, 2007
They say about 30 people were pulled from the rubble of the two-storey former exhibition centre in the city of Leshan, in Sichuan province. About 100 people were thought to be attending a lecture inside at the time. (BBC News -- Asia-Pacific)
Free university for China's future teachers May 4, 2007
" Free education in teaching colleges had been in practice since the burgeoning of China's modern education in the early 1900s. From the late 1990s, however, many teaching schools gradually started charging because of overwhelming education reforms. At the same time, growing numbers of graduates from the teacher-training schools began to choose non-teaching jobs after graduation. China's education has been under fire over the past decade for imbalances in rural-urban educational resources... (Xinhuanet, China)
