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Lack of insurance hampers Chinese Sichuan’s recovery after deadly earthquake

Hong Kong, Aug 20 (UNI) Thirty six hours after a magnitude 7 earthquake shattered the mountainous Sichuan county of Jiuzhaigou earlier this month, a white sedan carrying four employees of China Pacific Insurance company was among a fleet of ambulances, bulldozers and trucks risking rock falls and cracks in the ground to reach the epicentre.
The insurance staff were there to check the damage to the Jiuzhai Songcheng Romance Park, a theatre entertaining tourists, as the venue has a policy worth 200 million yuan (US
30 million) with the insurer.
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Tokyo regrets Russia's veto of US-Japan UNSC draft resolution on WMDs in space

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