China will hold the 7th Brand and Quality Online Shopping Festival from April 28 to May 12, the Ministry of Commerce said on Thursday.
Activities promoting e-commerce services and quality products available for export will be organized during the festival.
"The festival's launch ceremony will be held in Wuxi City, in east China's Jiangsu Province. The Quality African Products Online Shopping Festival will be held in central China's Hunan Province. The ministry will also coordinate several places across China to hold business matchmaking events with each other. In addition, over 200 different supporting activities will be organized nationwide," said commerce ministry spokesman He Yadong.
China to hold the 7th Brand and Quality Online Shopping Festival
The death toll from a landfill collapse in the central Philippine city of Cebu has risen to eight by Monday morning as search and rescue operations continued for another 28 missing people.
The landfill collapse occurred on Thursday as dozens of sanitation workers were working at the site. The disaster has already caused injuries of 18 people.
Family members of the missing people said the rescue progress is slow, and the hope for the survival of their loved ones is fading.
"For me, maybe I’ve accepted the worst result already because the garbage is poisonous and yesterday, it was raining very hard the whole day. Maybe they’ve been poisoned. For us, alive or dead, I hope we can get their bodies out of the garbage rubble," said Maria Kareen Rubin, a family member of a victim.
Families have set up camps on high ground near the landfill, awaiting news of their relatives. Some people at the site said cries for help could still be heard hours after the landfill collapsed, but these voices gradually faded away.
Bienvenido Ranido, who lost his wife in the disaster, said he can't believe all that happened.
"After they gave my wife oxygen, my kids and I were expecting that she would be saved that night because she was still alive. But the night came and till the next morning, they didn't manage to save her," he said.
Death toll in central Philippine landfill collapse rises to eight
