NPR's Melissa Block was in China when a major earthquake hit in 2008. As she wraps up her time as host of All Things Considered, she reconnects with a Chinese girl who has overcome great challenges.
NPR记者Melissa Block曾在2008年的5月全程报道了在中国西南方那场极具毁灭性的地震,有将近90,000人失踪或失去生命。现在,是她在All Things Considered (面面俱到/时事纵观)主播生涯即将落下帷幕的时候,她决定重新连线这个女孩儿,这个在逆境中克服重重难关并出落成少女的梅花。
The powerful blasts toppled stacks of shipping containers, scorched hundreds of cars in nearby lots, and blasted out the windows of cars and buildings.
The decision to devalue the yuan has shaken investors, who fear a currency war and question the health of China's economy, the second-largest in the world.
Typhoon Soudelor, now downgraded to a tropical storm, caused the heaviest rainfall in a century in one area of China. At least a dozen people were killed. Six others died when the storm hit Taiwan.
The storm killed at least 6 people in Taiwan and has thrust millions into the dark. Some 1.4 million homes in China's Fujian province were evacuated ahead of its landfall.
Malaysian officials say a wing fragment found on Reunion Island is from the missing plane; French investigators say they're almost — but not quite — certain.
A new anthem produced for the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics is being attacked online as too similar to "Let It Go" from the film "Frozen." We asked a 5-year-old girl to assess the merits of the case.