TAIYUAN, April 6 (Xinhua) Yang Xiquan, a farmer in Longmen Village, Hejin City of north China Shanxi Province, has just received the last 90,000 yuan (about
BEIJING (AP) Chinese authorities confirmed Tuesday 13 people had died after a bus plunged into a rushing river amid heavy flooding that has caused 15 other fatalities in the north.
After the normally dry region received three months' rain in one week the flooding hit the coal-rich landlocked region during a nationwide energy crunch, and after record floods killed more than 300 people in central Henan province in July.
BEIJING — Chinese authorities said Tuesday that 14 people died after a bus plunged into a rushing river during heavy flooding that has caused 15 other fatalities in the north. State broadcaster CCTV said another 37 people from the bus had been rescued and seven were hospitalized. The driver was