China mourns a week after quake
May 19th, 2008 | By Aditya Lesmana | Category: Featured Articles, NewsDUJIANGYAN, China - China on Monday lowered flags to half-mast, suspended its Olympic torch relay and curbed entertainment as the nation began three days of mourning for its worst earthquake in a generation.
In solemn scenes broadcast on state television, Chinese soldiers performed the daily raising of the national flag at Beijing’s imposing Tiananmen Square, then lowered it to half-mast in memory of the estimated 50,000 quake dead.
China will hold three minutes of silence at 2:28 pm (0628 GMT), the exact moment a week ago that the powerful tremor — upgraded to 8.0 on the Richter scale — reduced entire towns to heaps of steel and concrete.
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