【正文】 ages and pages of scornful disastrous fundraising campaign is the latest embarrassment in a longfestering public relations crisis for the in 1904 as a privately run organization, the RCSC was recognized by the international Red Cross federation in 1952, but since then has e under ever tighter government control — and with that has e growing distance from the , so close are the government ties that since 1996, RCSC employees have been technically regarded as civil against the RCSC has been festering for years, amid public anger over the organization?s lack of transparency and rumors that the government officials who run the organization have had their hands in the deep is the suspicion of Chinese officialdom in general that Hong Kong?s legislature last week refused to vote an almost $13 million donation to the Sichuan authorities for relief in Lushan for fear the money would be RCSC received more than $700 million after the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake, but questions about how that money was used have came to a head in 2011, when a young woman who claimed to be a business manager at the RCSC began posting pictures to her Weibo account that documented her lavish lifestyle and luxury Meimei?s wardrobe included dozens of Hermes bags and other highend pieces, which she displayed proudly while sitting behind the wheel of a Maserati or Lamborghini, or perched in firstclass seats on netizens demanded to know how a midlevel employee at an NGO could possibly afford this type of the RCSC pleaded innocence and denied that Guo was even an employee, its reputation was left in Chinese writer Bei Cun spoke for many when he wrote on his Weibo account, “I assert: the Red Cross Society of China cannot be changed, its credibility is bankrupt and it cannot change its ways.” He also drew attention to the fact that the RCSC is not operated by the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, “just like Chinese PEN has nothing to do with PEN International, and the Chinese Catholic Church has nothing to do with the Vatican.” Staff at other charity organizations plain bitterly that the RCSC gives the whole sector a bad name.“I don?t trust the Red Cross Society of China — for one thing, they are far too inefficient,” Yuan, a volunteer raising funds for victims of the Lushan earthquake, tells theearthquake, the 38yearold entrepreneur from Chengdu, in Sichuan province, has been gathering donations and ferrying funds to the disaster zone quickly, a process he says his small group can handle more efficiently than the bureaucratic RCSC.“From the time we receive the donations to the time we pass the funds over to the victims, it takes us only five hours,” says Yuan, who declined to give his first name because of the sensitive nature of the issue.“Can the Red Cross do that? Of course they can?t.”Indeed, according to the RCSC?s own figures, as of April 24, four days after the earthquake, it had distributed only 25% of the donations it public backlash has been disastrous for the RCSC, but other charity organizations too are having to work hard to build credibility with a public that is eager to help but skeptical about how funds are being money on the streets of Chengdu, Yuan says he faces intensescrutiny from those he approaches for donations.“Some of them even accused us of being cheats, but most of them, after we explained what we did and who we are, chose to trust us,” he Sunday the RCSC?s executive vice president, Zhao Baige, addressed the crisis of confidence in the organization.“If in two to three years we can?t turn the image of the ?black cross? into a ?Red Cross,? I will resign,” she a sign that public sentiment may be improving, the organization also said it now accounted for almost half of all donations to the quakerelief the RCSC is painfully discovering, trust is one of the most valuable endowments of article fails to mention that, while donations may have got off to a slow start, RCSC had, as of May 1 collected more than 666 million CNY(108 million USD)in cash and inkind is pletely inaccurate to say that RCSC has e under ever tighter government control in recent it is true that many but not all of its staff are civil servants, since themid1990’s, the RCSC’s relationship with the government has actually evolved from one in which it formed part ofthe Health Ministry structure, to one in which it enjoys a large and growing measure of operational from China dailyQuake prompts disaster preparedness discussionBEIJINGExperts are urging the government to create more effective measures to promote public preparedness in the event of a natural disaster in the aftermath of the Lushan earthquake.“Years of research show that selfrescues have a significant role in saving lives when natural disasters percent of survivors are saved by themselves or fellow victims,” said Wang Shaoyu, a public security planning and risk management expert at the Harbin Institute of earthquake hit Lushan county in southwest China39。山西太原清徐縣縣城二中初二:侯翔第二篇：雅安地震英文報道_____ citing from CNNLights stay on in temporary tents set up by the Red Cross Society of China in the Lushan county of Ya39。他提醒說，在后續(xù)救災(zāi)過程中，應(yīng)該注意避免余震進(jìn)一步擴大災(zāi)害的損失?！翱偟膩碚f，地震震級和頻次預(yù)計會逐漸降低?！敝袊卣鹋_網(wǎng)中心地震預(yù)報部副主任蔣海昆研究員20日表示，此次地震余震或?qū)⒊掷m(xù)數(shù)月。截止今日22時，共記錄到余震789次，其中3級以上余震51次：。同時，貴州、云南、廣西、重慶、甘肅、湖北、湖南等省區(qū)市迅速組織救援隊伍，趕赴地震災(zāi)區(qū)救援。一批直升機和偵察機飛機已經(jīng)被投入到第一線，其中成都軍區(qū)投入了4架直升機，空軍出動了兩架偵查飛機。解放軍和武警部隊亦迅速行動，馳援災(zāi)區(qū)?！钡教J山縣龍門鄉(xiāng)地震災(zāi)區(qū)視察災(zāi)情時，李克強對正在救援的部隊說，目前仍是救援黃金時期，一定要加快。飛抵災(zāi)區(qū)后，李克強直奔蘆山縣人民醫(yī)院看望受災(zāi)群眾。李克強20日中午趕赴四川雅安災(zāi)區(qū)，交通運輸部、地震局等國務(wù)院工作人員同機趕往。災(zāi)情就是命令。國務(wù)院和四川省政府迅速啟動救災(zāi)一級應(yīng)急響應(yīng)。目前滎經(jīng)梅嶺、梅嶺雅安通信傳輸已恢復(fù)，寶興縣恢復(fù)2個移動基站(靈關(guān)、大魚)，結(jié)束了通信“孤島”狀況。截止目前，已恢復(fù)基站35個。截止目前，已恢復(fù)940兆瓦；雅安全天城區(qū)電網(wǎng)供電正在恢復(fù)中；除雅安外，地震波及區(qū)已恢復(fù)1000戶客戶供電。7萬千瓦。截至目前，雅安蘆山縣道路基本搶通。其中雅安市已遇難141人，失蹤4人，受傷4406人，其中重傷387人。9級地震2次，最大余震5。——編者注)災(zāi)區(qū)共發(fā)生余震147次，其中5。四川省政府副秘書長蔡競通報稱，截至4月20日20時，雅安地震已造成雅安、成都、眉山、自貢、德陽、綿陽、樂山、宜賓、內(nèi)江、資陽、甘孜、阿壩和涼山13個市(州)69個縣150余萬人受災(zāi)，156人遇難、失蹤4人、5878人受傷，其中重傷390人。而中央電視臺官方微博“央視新聞”發(fā)布的最新消息稱，目前，200名武警已徒步進(jìn)入寶興縣靈關(guān)鎮(zhèn)。新華社記者從公安部消防局指揮中心了解到，四川公安消防官兵已有一隊20人從北