BRITISH PRIME MINISTER TONY BLAIR MEETS CHINESE PRIME MINISTER WEN JIABAO IN LONDON FOR TRADE TALKS

Britains Prime MinisterTony Blair (L) greets his Chinese counterpart Wen Jiabao (R) outside No.10 Downing St in London on May 10,2004. .. (UPI PHOTO/Hugo Philpott)

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Quake lake work to take days to complete

BEIJING, May 29 (UPI) -- Engineers were working nonstop under heavy odds to drain a huge quake-created lake in China that threatens to burst, but officials say it will take days.

Lake burst feared

BEIJING, May 28 (UPI) -- Chinese rescue teams Wednesday faced the prospect of having to evacuate up to 1 million people in the path of an earthquake-formed lake that could burst.

Quake toll over 55,000

BEIJING, May 22 (UPI) -- The vice governor of China's quake-hit Sichuan province said Friday the death toll in his province had risen to 55,239 as of 7 p.m. the previous day.

China quake death toll surges to 51,151

BEIJING, May 22 (UPI) -- The soaring death toll from southwestern China's devastating earthquake jumped nearly 10,000 to 51,151 Thursday, government officials reported.

Death toll from Chinese quake at 22,069

BEIJING, May 16 (UPI) -- The official death toll from the 7.8-magnitude earthquake that struck China this week has reached 22,069 people, authorities said Friday.

China quake death toll raised to 15,000

BEIJING, May 14 (UPI) -- Rescue workers pulled the bodies of 178 students from a collapsed school in the aftermath of China's deadly earthquake, local officials said Wednesday.

Chinese grain unaffected by quake

BEIJING, May 14 (UPI) -- Officials reported Wednesday grain reserve stockpiles in quake-ravaged southwestern China were undamaged by Monday's deadly earthquake.

China quake toll tops 12,000

BEIJING, May 13 (UPI) -- Rescue workers in southwestern China Tuesday said they pulled 1,000 people from the rubble caused by a massive 7.9-magnitude earthquake.

Quake kills thousands,epicenter blocked

BEIJING, May 13 (UPI) -- About 17,000 Chinese soldiers joined a huge relief effort Tuesday after an earthquake in Sichuan province killed some 10,000 people and trapped thousands more.

China officials say quake toll near 10,000

BEIJING, May 12 (UPI) -- Chinese disaster officials say the death toll from Monday's devastating earthquake in southwestern China has spiked to near 10,000.

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