Search and rescue workers were battling high altitude and frigid weather as they searched for survivors a day after a massive earthquake killed 126 people in western China’s Tibet autonomous region. The magnitude 6.8 quake struck the county of Tingri, at the foot of Mount Everest, known as Mount Qomolangma in China, on Tuesday morning. … Read more
In a high school classroom in Hong Kong, a student asks a survivor of the Nanking massacre if she has ever thought about taking her own life. Dressed in traditional Chinese clothing, her white hair neatly combed, 95-year-old Xia Shuqing calmly answers. “I didn’t think about it. I just wanted to be brave and speak … Read more
SINGAPORE: When Ms Namrata Kohli heard that a Singaporean couple was missing at Taroko National Park amid a 7.4-magnitude earthquake in Taiwan, her first thought was that it could have easily been her and her husband. “It could have been us, I don’t know how it wasn’t us,” said the 39-year-old Employment Pass holder who … Read more
