19560 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.xinhuanet.com/english/2018-10/24/c_137555444.htmBEIJING, Oct. 24 (Xinhua) -- China's capacity in earthquake monitoring and disaster relief has improved over the past ten years, said a report submitted to the top legislature on Wednesday. The report was prepared after an inspection was completed on the enforcement of the Law on Protecting Against....Wed, 24 Oct 2018 15:18:00 +0200xinhuanet_en-8d7c9aad8ac1aeca545b245bcefb10a520181024151800http://www.nampa.org/index.php?model=categories&function=display&id=18412936. Contributed by NAMPA / Xinhua. BEIJING, Oct. 24 (Xinhua) -- China's capacity in earthquake monitoring and disaster relief has improved over the past ten years, said a report submitted to the top legislature on Wednesday. The report was prepared after an inspection was completed on the enforcement....Wed, 24 Oct 2018 15:05:00 +0200nampa-3e4cd0e5d2b1ad626a0c4fdf694b002220181024150500https://www.newscientist.com/article/2183290-worlds-longest-sea-bridge-opens-between-hong-kong-and-mainland-china/By Alice Klein. China’s new mega-bridge was officially opened today by President Xi Jinping after 9 years of construction. The 55-kilometre-long structure, which is the longest over-sea bridge in the world, crosses the Pearl River estuary to connect the Chinese mainland to Hong Kong and Macau.Wed, 24 Oct 2018 14:00:00 +0200newscientist-5ddd667ee3d94badf03d87390a5f2ad520181024140000https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/taiwan-rattled-by-60-magnitude-quake-which-was-felt-strongly-in-taipeiTAIPEI (REUTERS) - A 6.0-magnitude earthquake struck 104 km off Taiwan's coastal city of Hualien on Tuesday (Oct 23), the island's weather bureau said, with no immediate reports of damage. A Reuters witness said the quake shook buildings in the capital Taipei. The quake had a depth of 31 km. No other details were immediately available.Wed, 24 Oct 2018 12:53:00 +0200straitstimesSG-5aad223ade22db5688ed285b3b0411f420181024125300