3540 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://rss.xinhuanet.com/newsc/english/2008-08/29/content_9737560.htmXI'AN, Aug. 29 (Xinhua) -- A Chinese college student was sentenced on Friday to 18 months in prison for spreading a rumour about an impending earthquake that caused a panic in northwest China's Shaanxi Province. Jia Zhipan, 22, a student at Eurasia University in the provincial capital of Xi'an,....2008-08-29T18:05+0200xinhuanet_en-165ec18562da0d7a2de9f184dffc96f720080829180500http://www.independent.ie/world-news/majority-of-chinese-quake-orphans-have-been-reunited-with-relatives-1462309.html?r=RSSTHE majority of young children orphaned in China's Sichuan province by May's devastating earthquake, have found homes with relatives, leaving only 88 to be put up for adoption, state media said on Saturday.2008-08-28T21:25+0200irish-independent-653081050931537de65229e21c19230920080828212500http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90776/90883/6488974.htmlNokia Siemens Networks (NSN) and United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) have entered into a partnership to support the recovery and reconstruction in the areas affected by the Wenchuan earthquake, a UNDP official said on Thursday. A memorandum of understanding was signed Wednesday at the UN's Beijing office.2008-08-28T14:30+0200peopledaily-ebc808ced33df625a1b7c8915dd95ef220080828143000http://rss.xinhuanet.com/newsc/english/2008-08/28/content_9729547.htmBEIJING, Aug. 28 (Xinhua) -- Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN) and United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) have entered into a partnership to support the recovery and reconstruction in the areas affected by the Wenchuan earthquake, a UNDP official said on Thursday. A memorandum of understanding was signed Wednesday at the UN's Beijing office.2008-08-28T11:32+0200xinhuanet_en-975d3f5a42bff660e702fef17318bc7520080828113200