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BBC News By Zhaoyin Feng and Yitsing Wang BBC World Service image captionThe survivors included Ah Lam, Fang Lang and Ling Hee When the luxurious British passenger ship Titanic sank into the Atlantic Ocean in April 1912, thousands of people fell into the frigid waters. Only one of the lifeboats that escaped the sinking ship turned back to search for potential survivors. In the darkness, the rescuers found a young Chinese man clinging to a wooden door, shivering but still alive. That man was ...

Titanics Chinese survivors endured racism and deportation after disaster, film shows By (0) More than 1,400 people are believed to have died after the luxury passenger ship Titanic capsized in 1912. File Photo courtesy National Archives April 16 (UPI) -- Chinese survivors of the RMS Titanic, the luxury passenger ship that capsized after colliding with an iceberg in 1912, struggled with racism and discrimination after the disaster, according to a new documentary that aired in China. The Six, a...