The Nepalese people have shown their gratitude to China and the Chinese International Search and Rescue Team (CISAR) members for their stalwart deeds in Nepal during the country's time of dire need in the post-earthquake days.
The Nepalese people have shown their gratitude to China and the Chinese International Search and Rescue Team (CISAR) members for their stalwart deeds in Nepal during the country's time of dire need in the post-earthquake days.
China has pledged to continue to help Nepal in its post-earthquake reconstruction as the Himalayan country struggles to get back to normal more than two weeks after the devastating quake.
As dazzling sunshine filtered through a camouflage-like mesh that serves as a makeshift roof for a piece of lawn connecting ward tents, Xu Zhaoxia checked her first-aid kit after visiting patients in her area of responsibility, eager to join a task force to serve quake victims in parts of Kathmandu who are not able to come to the battlefield- style hospital, or simply a combination of tents, with vehicles and shabby bungalows just meters away from the official seat of the Nepalese government-- Singha Durbar, or Lion Palace, which, with visible cracks on its white walls and pillars, had been cordoned off.
Nepalese ambassador to India has emphasized that his country is now moving into the phase of rehabilitation after nearly completing search and rescue operation, local media reported Tuesday.
U.S. President Barack Obama on Wednesday pledged full support for relief effort in Nepal, as the Himalayan country is still reeling from a powerful earthquake and heavy casualties.
As the Nepalese people grapple with an intensive rescue effort in the aftermath of Saturday's 7.9-magnitude earthquake, hundreds of Chinese are working side by side with them.
The Nepal government on Tuesday said that 454,769 have been internally displaced following the powerful earthquakes on Saturday and Sunday.
Rescuers have cleared a highway leading to a Tibetan town where thousands of people were trapped following the 8.1-magnitude earthquake in Nepal Saturday.
The death toll from a powerful earthquake in Nepal has risen to 5,057, and a total of 10,915 others were injured, said the Ministry of Home Affairs Tuesday.
Philippine president said Tuesday that ASEAN countries have agreed to extend "collective" assistance to Nepal, instead of doing it one by one.
The death toll from Saturday's earthquake in Nepal has climbed to 4,264 people, including 20 mountaineers, and more than 7,000 others were injured, said the National Emergency Operation Center of Nepal's Home Ministry on Tuesday morning.
The Hong Kong government on Tuesday raised the Outbound Travel Alert for Nepal to red because of the devastating earthquake there on Saturday.
China's top economic planner on Sunday allocated 30 million yuan (4.9 million U.S. dollars) of emergency funds to the quake-affected regions in Tibet.
International aid groups and the governments intensified efforts to send rescuers and supplies into quake-stricken Nepal on Sunday as death toll soared to about 2,150 with 5,460 injured in the Himalayan country.
China is mobilizing all kinds of resources from rescue teams to relief supplies to the earthquake-hit Tibet Autonomous Region and the neighboring Nepal on the other side of the world's highest mountain.
At least 20 were killed and 58 injured in southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region, after a powerful earthquake struck neighboring Nepal on Saturday, the regional disaster relief headquarters said late Sunday.
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