13393330 Europe Media Monitor (EMM) reads and analyses around 40.000 new news items per day from around 1000 sites worldwide. The text of the items, extracted using EMM's own text extraction algorithm, is indexed using Lucene (see http://lucene.apache.org). Please make sure your area of interest is not already covered by one of the pre-defined categories (alerts). If it is, we kindly ask you to use the feed from that category as this significantly reduces the load on our system. This site is a joint project of DG-JRC and DG-COMM. The information on this site is subject to a disclaimer (see http://europa.eu/geninfo/legal_notices_en.htm). Please acknowledge EMM when (re)using this material http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/story.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=10512902&ref=rssMIANZHU - New aftershocks toppled 420,000 houses and injured dozens in southwest China on Tuesday, heaping destruction and fear on a region struggling to recover from the country's worst earthquake in decades. The houses collapsed...2008-05-27T23:08+0200nzherald-1fa3f24c14f57ed574e1839737823e4520080527230800http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/SKAI-7F2QA5?OpenDocumentAppeal #699-B Appeal amount: $200,000 SITUATION As the death toll from the most catastrophic earthquake to hit China in more than two decades continues to climb, survivors are coping with damaging aftershocks that complicate relief efforts. More than 67,000 have been killed, another 20,000 remain missing and millions are homeless.2008-05-27T23:06+0200reliefWeb-76cadd2a98d22771f995c98e1074b56120080527230600http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/SNAO-7F2RBD?OpenDocumentBy Tyra Dempster MIANZHU, China, May 27 (Reuters) - New aftershocks toppled 420,000 houses and injured dozens in southwest China on Tuesday, heaping destruction and fear on a region struggling to recover from the country's worst earthquake in decades. The houses collapsed when a 5.2008-05-27T23:06+0200reliefWeb-c4de7248c7e3817d4778466ceee625b120080527230600http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/SNAO-7F2QEW?OpenDocumentBEIJING, May 27, 2008 (Xinhua via COMTEX News Network) -- Despite speaking different languages, medical teams from many countries and regions are actively helping the earthquake relief in disaster-hit southwest China. "Xiao Gan" is the nickname locals have given to Chinese Russian doctor Gan Junda.2008-05-27T23:06+0200reliefWeb-01b019c4c931d3cfb1997aea93ac82df20080527230600