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Article: China Life offers monthly stipends to quake orphans
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- Xinhua News Agency
- Article date:
- August 6, 2008
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China Life offers monthly stipends to quake orphans
BEIJING, Aug. 6 (Xinhua) -- China Life Insurance (Group) Co. said
on Wednesday that it would allocate 600 yuan (87.60 U.S. dollars)
monthly to children who were orphaned in the May 12 earthquake,
starting in December, until they reached the age of 18.
No official count of such orphans has been released, but the
company said it believed the number was less than 1,000.
Two days after the ...