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5:12 – Sichuan’s Unlucky Numbers

by Ray Ally on May 12, 2009

Photo: Ray Ally I am staying at the Shangri-la in Qingdao, coincidentally on the 12th floor but this morning I need no reminder of the importance of this number. Today is May 12; the 5th month and 12th day and a date which everyone in China remembers. It was a year ago since a terrible [...]

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A Picture Tells Sixty-Nine Thousand Stories

by Ray Ally on January 12, 2009

Photo: Ray Ally Eight months to the day (May 12th 2008), a powerful earthquake measuring 7.9 magnitude rocked Sichuan province in China, killing tens of thousands and making millions homeless. If every picture tells a story then these pictures tell 69,227 stories – one for each of the people that died. As 2008 draws to [...]

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