China in mourning.
May 19th 2008 Ofcourse we all know about the horrible eartquake that destroyed so many people's lives in the south of China.
I happened to be on Qinhua square in central Hohhot for the first of three consecutive days of national mourning, on which each day at 14:28, the exact time of the earthquake in Sichuan province, three minutes of 'silence' is held to commemorate the lives lost.
In China this is done by
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