Sharon Stone, the “Basic Instinct” actress, said the devastating earthquake in China might have been “karma” for the Communist nation’s treatment of Tibet and the Dalai Lama, during a red-carpet interview at the Cannes Film Festival Thursday.

“I’m not happy about the way that the Chinese are treating the Tibetans because I don’t think anyone should be unkind to anyone else, and so I have been very concerned about how to think and what to do because I don’t like that.” she told reporters at Cannes.

“China is not being nice to the Dalai Lama, who’s a good friend of mine. Then all this earthquake and all this stuff happened, and I thought, is that karma? When you’re not nice, that the bad things happen to you?” said the 50-year-old star.

However, when she got a letter from the Tibetan Foundation saying the organization wanted to be helpful to the quake victims, she said “That made me cry. Sometimes you have to learn to put your head down and be of service, even to people who aren’t nice to you. That’s a big lesson for me.”

Here is the video of Sharon Stone at Cannes Film Festival:
Read the rest of this entry

Popularity: 2% [?]

Zipingku Dam is in “great danger”. Chinese state media says 2,000 troops had been rushed to plug “extremely dangerous” cracks in a Zipingku dam upriver from Dujiangyan in Sichuan province.

Dujiangyan saw buildings collapse and services cut off in Monday’s magnitude 7.9 quake earthquake.

State-run China.org reported that the 7.9-magnitude earthquake caused “severe cracks” in the dam.

Speaking from Dujiangyan, Sky’s China correspondent Peter Sharp said many local people seemed unaware of the threat.

“It (the dam) is only five kilometres away, we are downstream of it,” he said.

Popularity: 2% [?]

A powerful earthquake trapped nearly 900 students in central China on Monday after their school collapsed and at least 107 people were killed across several provinces, state media reported.

The 7.8-magnitude earthquake struck central China, but sent thousands of people rushing out of buildings and into the streets hundreds of miles away in Beijing and Shanghai. The temblor was felt as far away as Pakistan, Vietnam and Thailand.

Popularity: 3% [?]