Haiti is estimated to have 250,000 restaveks — children working as unpaid servants after their parents, who cannot afford to raise them, give them away.

Parents who lost their only children in the Sichuan quake are having new babies, but anger still festers.

The weight of a reservoir a mile from a major fault may have triggered the 2008 earthquake in Sichuan Province.

An earthquake struck in China, toppling thousands of buildings and killing at least 10,000 people.

The longer I lived in Haiti, the less I believed in my work.

The rapid grass-roots response to the April earthquake in Sichuan Province reveals how far China’s nascent civil society movement has come since a major quake in 2008.

No buildings constructed after a powerful earthquake struck southwest China in 2008 collapsed fully during last week's quake in the same province, which means they withstood a major test, an official said Thursday.

Hong Kong lawmakers fiercely opposed a plan Wednesday to donate money to a Chinese provincial government for earthquake victims, underlining widespread public concerns about mainland corruption.

Saturday's earthquake in China's Sichuan province, measured by China's earthquake administration at magnitude 7.0 and by the U.S. Geological Survey at 6.6, killed at least 192 people, injured more than 11,000 and left nearly two dozen missing, mostly in the rural communities around Ya'an city. The temblor struck along the same fault line where a devastating quake to the north killed more than 90,000 people in Sichuan and neighboring areas five years ago in one of China's worst natural disasters...

The quake that struck China last weekend has drawn a flood of donations, but those eager to donate are avoiding official charity groups that now have a reputation for corruption.

The government’s response to a deadly earthquake is yet another test of its ability to deliver the goods. The administration of President Xi Jinping takes more steps to tackle corruption.

Hundreds of survivors of a 6.6 magnitude earthquake that hit southwest China, killing nearly 200 people, pushed into traffic along a main road on Monday, waving protest signs, demanding help and shouting at police.

The tent village that sprang up in two days to house quake survivors in mountain-flanked Lushan is no ordinary refugee camp. China's full range of disaster response is on display: Trucks with x-ray equipment, phone-charging stations, bank tellers-on-wheels — even a tent for insurance claims.

Rescuers struggled to reach a remote, rural corner of southwestern China on Sunday as the toll of the dead and missing from the country's worst earthquake in three years climbed to 208 with almost 1,000 serious injuries.

After dynamiting through landslide-blocked roads, Chinese relief crews hurried food, water and other supplies into the rural hills of China's Sichuan province Monday, two days after an earthquake killed at least 188 people and injured more than 11,000.

Rescuers struggled to reach a remote, rural corner of southwestern China on Sunday as the toll of the dead and missing from the country's worst earthquake in three years climbed to 208 with almost 1,000 serious injuries.

The earthquake struck the western region of Sichuan Province, where a previous quake killed 70,000 people.

At least 100 people have been killed in a 6.6 magnitude earthquake which struck the southwestern Chinese province of Sichuan on Saturday, state television reported on its official microblog.

Rescuers and relief teams struggled to rush supplies into the rural hills of China's Sichuan province Sunday after an earthquake left at least 180 people dead and more than 11,000 injured and prompted frightened survivors to spend a night in cars, tents and makeshift shelters.

Rescuers poured into a remote corner of southwestern China on Sunday as the death toll from the country's worst earthquake in three years climbed to 164 with more than 6,700 injured, state media said.