Oriental Daily News blames corruption and a lack of transparency in the mainland for a "marked cooling down" of public enthusiasm in Hong Kong for donating funds compared with the Wenchuan earthquake five years ago.

BBC: China media: Quake donations debate

Fan Xiao, chief engineer at the Sichuan Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources, told Global Times on Monday that the huge pressure of large reservoirs built on the fault line may have induced the Ya'an earthquakes and the more powerful Wenchuan earthquake in 2008.

BBC: China media: Quake donations debate

The organisation's credibility was tarnished after billions of renminbi in donations for victims of the 2008 earthquake in Wenchuan, Sichuan, disappeared.

BBC: China media: Quake response