Article: Quake orphans estimated under 2,000, says official

Article: China Focus: Tens of thousands of Chinese seek to adopt ...
Xinhua News Agency;  May 22, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... seek to adopt quake orphans by Li Jianmin ... overwhelmed local civil affairs authorities with ... harassed" the civil affairs officials, others ... Beijing Municipal Civil Affairs Bureau, who ... families that adopt quake orphans. "As the capital ...

Article: Feature: Quake orphans face uncertain future (1)
Xinhua News Agency;  May 24, 2008 ;     610 words ...Feature: Quake orphans face uncertain future ... Dad". The number of quake orphans like Song Xinyi could ... according to the Bureau of Civil Affairs of Sichuan Province ... relief camps. The Civil Affairs Ministry has announced ...

Article: China opens registrations to adopt quake orphans
AP Worldstream;  August 25, 2008 ;     603 words ... ... be notified in about a week's time, the report said. The Civil Affairs Ministry said earlier this year that people nationwide had shown a huge interest in adopting quake orphans, with 10,000 families registering for adoption in one province ...

Article: Feature: Quake orphans face uncertain future (2)
Xinhua News Agency;  May 24, 2008 ;     700+ words ...Feature: Quake orphans face uncertain future ... the hotlines of local civil affairs bureaus with offers ... specialist, says most quake orphans preferred a special ... research in Tangshan quake orphans for decades. "Children ...

Article: Feature: Quake orphans find love, but no families
Xinhua News Agency;  November 15, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... says Zhao is one of 10 quake orphans still in the home ... provincial Department of Civil Affairs, 90 percent of the ... priority in adopting quake orphans according to government ... had been calling the civil affairs bureau in Beichuan ...

Article: Families cling to China quake orphans
Sunday Gazette-Mail;  September 14, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... to let them go. The tale of the quake orphans underscores the strength of extended ... of the office of the Ministry of Civil Affairs in nearby Deyang, the regional ... state means that few of the 532 quake orphans are li

Article: Sichuan to get network of institutions for quake ...
Xinhua News Agency;  June 6, 2008 ;     423 words ... ... get network of institutions for quake orphans BEIJING, June 6 (Xinhua ... according to the Ministry of Civil Affairs (MCA). The size of the institutions ... estimate is that the final number of quake orphans in Sichuan will be 1,000 to ...