No.1 Assistant of martial arts movie star drowned   释小龙助理   14192

An 18-year-old man named Peng Jiaxuan drowned on April 19 when swimming at the diving hall of the General Administration of Sport, the training base for Zhejiang Satellite TV’s celebrity diving show Celebrity Splash. Peng is an assistant of actor Ashton Chen (Shi Xiaolong), a martial arts movie star and contestant in the show.


No.2 5.0-magnitude quake jolts China's Yellow Sea   黄海地震   13415

A 5.0-magnitude earthquake jolted China's Yellow Sea at 7:21 am on April 21, Xinhua cited the China Earthquake Networks Center.


No.3 Ya’an news reporter reports earthquake in wedding dress   雅安电视台主持人陈莹   39799

Ya’an TV news reporter Chen Ying conducted street interviews immediately after the 7.0-magnitude earthquake hit Ya'an, Southwest China's Sichuan Province at around 8 am on April 20, when she was putting on the make-up for her wedding ceremony and was already wearing the wedding dress.


No.4 Hunan TV host reports earthquake with sore throat   邱启明声音嘶哑   6528

Hunan TV host Qiu Qiming kept reporting the Lushan earthquake live for two hours on the night of April 20, in spite of almost losing his voice.


No.5 Red Cross Society of China scolded on Weibo   红十字会微博   16239

The Red Cross Society of China (RCSC) decided to focus on disaster relief of Ya’an earthquake and ignore messages reading “piss off” which follow the posts about disaster relief on its official Sina Weibo account, according to the Southern Metropolis Daily. Red Cross Society of China lost credibility after the Guo Meimei scandal in 2011.



Updated by 4 pm, April 21, 2013
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