The data then published were meant to show how the charity had spent the money it had collected to help victims of the 7.1-magnitude earthquake that had hit Yushu county in Northwest China's Qinghai province on April 14 this past year.

Ten billion yuan in donations to a quake-hit area in northwest Qinghai province has been strictly managed and supervised to prevent embezzlement, local authorities said.

Ten billion yuan (about 1.5 billion U.S. dollars) in donations to a quake-hit area in northwest China's Qinghai Province has been strictly managed and supervised to prevent embezzlement, local authorities said.

An earthquake measuring 5.2 on the Richter scale jolted Nangchen county in the Tibetan autonomous prefecture of Yushu in Northwest China's Qinghai province at 15:48 Sunday, said the China Earthquake Networks Center.

The parents of more than 9 million Chinese students peered out on Tuesday from the lines of iron railing outside every examination site around the country.

This year 20 billion yuan will be put into the post-quake reconstruction in Yushu county, northwest China's Qinghai Province which suffered a devastating earthquake last year.

Security workers across China offered tips that led to the detention of 142,100 suspects last year and helped prevent a potential economic loss of 5.773 billion yuan (888 million U.S. dollars), according to the Ministry of Public Security on Thursday.