The big hitters who had flown in from Sichuan could be heard cursing the impotence of their bulging wallets.
Not surprisingly, Chongqing grew fast once central planners separated it from Sichuan.
Many of these monks were from Sichuan, and they returned to their monasteries with tales of Lhasa's upheaval and the recriminations that followed.
Statistics from Sichuan showed in the first half this year, migrant workers who returned to Sichuan had set up more than 2, 000 businesses with a total revenue over ten billion yuan.
Xie Lihua, editor of Rural Women Knowing All, an immensely successful magazine (fancy a readership of 50m-60m?), describes how she helped to rescue two readers from Sichuan province who had been kidnapped and married off to men in Guangdong.
Some specialise in Cantonese food, which is the local fare, but Hong Kong's many private kitchens serve up a wide range of cuisines, from Sichuan and modern Shanghainese fusion to Cajun and French. (One restaurant is even on a boat.) Reservations are required for all private kitchens and can usually be made in English.
It quoted a woman from neighbouring Sichuan Province saying that the railway would cut her costs of doing business in Shigatse by half.
The 6.6-magnitude tremor sent people fleeing from buildings across Sichuan province, which was devastated by a massive quake five years ago.
Relief teams have been performing the grim task of extricating corpses from debris in Sichuan it is now estimated that as many as 50, 000 people may have died in the quake.
At a site 50 miles from Chengdu, the Sichuan capital, a dramatic rescue operation took place when signs of life emerged from a flattened factory.
Dargye was reportedly from Aba county in Sichuan province, said Xinhua.
When news of the incident spread, other migrant workers - most from far-off Sichuan province - went on the rampage, says the BBC's Michael Bristow in Beijing.
BBC: China migrant workers clash with police for third night
Ms. Zhou came to Shenzhen in 2005 after graduating from high school in rural Sichuan province.
At a news conference Tuesday, China's disaster response director, Wang Zhengyao, said that 11, 921 people have died so far from the quake centered in Sichuan province.
It turned out they were from the same hometown in Sichuan, and they had pooled cash and given it to her so she could come to Guangzhou and invest in futures.
CNN: ASIANOW - TIME Asia | Young China | The Pen is Nastier Than the Sword--Page 2
The air is filled with the calls of the stallholders offering everything from the ubiquitous noodles to spicy Sichuan soup and Shangdong-style pancakes, deep-fried crickets and scorpions.
The death toll from a massive earthquake in China's Sichuan province was expected to soar Tuesday, as rescue workers scrambled to find survivors buried beneath rubble and debris.
In 2008 the authorities won praise from around the world for their quick response to the Sichuan earthquake and their unusual decision to give journalists free rein to visit the affected area.
The Dongfanghong IV will be launched in 2007 from the Xichang Space Launch Centre in Southwest China's Sichuan Province.
It's a brazen, intensely flavorful dish that leaves one giddy with pleasure and reeling from the one-two punch packed by fiery chilies and Sichuan peppercorns, which produce a tingly sensation on the tongue.
Four days after a powerful earthquake struck China's Sichuan province, survivors are still being located, freed from rubble by rescue teams.
Woeser, a Tibetan blogger in Beijing who closely monitors the region, says the authorities inadvertently exacerbated Sichuan's instability by expelling hundreds of visiting monks from monasteries around Lhasa after the 2008 unrest.
Media in China continue to urge public support for victims of the Sichuan earthquake, while public concerns over corruption are hitting donations from Hong Kong.
The newspaper reported that students at universities in Chengdu, Sichuan's capital, organized meetings on campus to "demand fairness from the U.S.".
Chinese stocks were also reacting to an earthquake that hit Sichuan province over the weekend, with gains in companies that could benefit from reconstruction spending.
Since late last year two activists have been jailed in an apparent attempt to deter people from organising the parents of children killed in shoddily built schools during an earthquake in Sichuan province in 2008.
ECONOMIST: The politics of repression in China: What are they afraid of? | The
The French fashion house was forced to distance itself from its long-time cosmetics spokeswoman Sharon Stone after she publicly suggested the horrific devastation wrought by the Sichuan earthquake was karmic retribution for China's treatment of Tibet.
The government will be nervous of any news from Qinghai's disaster that could give further ammunition to domestic critics of the shoddy construction of schools in Sichuan that was widely blamed for the deaths of thousands of children in the 2008 earthquake.
Hu set off for downtown Beijing, working the phone and e-mailing from the back seat of a car, directing her staff to rent a satellite phone and get a crew to Sichuan.
应用推荐