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...Sports Center, where 8,000 quake victims live, resembles a small city in its size and organization. At the gate, people sleep on sacks of laundry detergent. Others pore over lists of injured. The biggest fear is infectious disease, and doctors and nurses wander through the crowds giving evaluations. Children sit in the field and watch a movie featuring Taiwan film star Jay Chou. Classical music plays over the loudspeakers. Lines of residents completing registration forms snake through the complex. Zhu Linzhen, 40, stands with her son, fighting to maintain her spot. "We have nothing," she says. The camp...
...turned it into a major public issue. During a State Council press conference this week, a journalist from the state-run China Daily asked why so many schools were destroyed by the tremor, while government buildings seemed comparatively intact. "It was not just schools that collapsed, but because children were buried we pay close attention to that," replied Wang Zhenyao, disaster relief director for the Ministry of Civil Affairs. "But in Beichuan county the civil administration building collapsed, and there were possibly casualties. The government buildings aren't all that firm." Still, online message boards teemed with demands for answers...
...Dozens of children aged between 10 and 16 have landed in recent months on the remote island of Leros, near the Turkish coast. They arrived in Greece without their parents, a worrisome pattern immigration experts say is increasingly common. Most of the 121 children held on the island are from Afghanistan, but there are also Palestinians and Eritrians, said Sophia Ioannou, spokeswoman for the Greek branch of the humanitarian aid group Médecins du Monde (MdM). She said all the children were crammed into a single facility without enough beds or toilets...
...Ioannou, speaking from phone from Athens, denied an earlier report that MdM colleagues on the island had encouraged the hunger strike as a way to draw attention to the children's plight. She says the children are drinking fluids and eating every two or three days. "But obviously," she said, "a child of 10 or 11 years old not eating for three days is risky for their health...
...drama on the Greek island suggests that police round-ups, public ire and poor living conditions aren't about to deter people fleeing their poorer, troubled homelands. Asked why children are sent off alone from their home countries, Ioannou paused, and said: "They come for their lives...