Monday, August 16, 2010

Overseas Chinese mourn Gansu mudslide victims

BEIJING, Aug. 15 (Xinhua) -- Overseas Chinese have held memorial meetings and other mourning activities recently to remember the victims of a massive mudslide in northwest China that killed at least 1,248 people.

During a mourning ceremony on Sunday at a Chinese-language school in Christchurch, New Zealand, overseas Chinese nationals and students observed three minutes' silence for the victims and placed candles in the shape of a heart.

Participants then made donations to the mudslide-hit areas, saying they were deeply concerned about those affected by the disaster.
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