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Countries and Red Cross Help Snow-Locked China

by Rob Walker | February 5, 2008 at 07:57 am | 1225 views | 2 comments | 0 recommendations

Much of China is still locked in bitter snow that has been coming down for well over a week now. International aid organizations like the Red Cross and other countries have extended help to the frozen country.

More countries and international organizations have sent messages of sympathy to China since Monday over the recent snow havoc in the country.
State leaders who have sent their messages of sympathy to Chinain recent days included Philippine President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, Nigerian President Umaru Yar'adua, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir, Turkmenistan President Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov and Seychelle's President James Michel.

The Red Cross Society of Beijing has partnered with YeePay, a leading payment service provider in China, to launch online donation service for snow disaster relief.

A road accident in central China's snow-plagued Hunan Province killed four people and injured five others, local officials said here on Monday.

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Rob Walker

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at 09:51 on February 5th, 2008

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wandoubaby

at 16:26 on February 5th, 2008

Hello Rob,

I have more photos of the snowstorm. I just came back from Xi'an and Shanghai and I am now in Beijing. While there is no snow in Beijing right now, there were quite a lot of snow in Xi'an and Shanghai, as you saw in my Xi'an photos. I have some photos taken in the domestic Shanghai airport where staff were trying to get rid of snow off the runway. The day I left Shanghai for Beijing, we were delayed by 6 hours on flight. Many people were stuck in the airport as well as in train stations. If you are interested, I could let you use some of those also.

Thanks again for using my pictures. I am really interested in getting into photojournalism. I am currently a media major still in college.

- hydie