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China Too Much Trash

AP News 121 days ago

In this photo taken on Sept. 1, 2009, a garbage truck leaves the rubbish dumpsite near a village in Zhanglidong, Henan province, China. The acrid aroma of rotting refuse and sewage spews forth from a landfill as big as 20 football fields, ...

Death toll rises to 42 in China mine blast

AFP Global Edition 154 days ago

The death toll from a gas explosion at a coal mine in central China has risen to 42, with 37 workers still trapped underground, state media reported Wednesday, citing local officials. The deadly blast, the latest to rock the notoriously dangerous coal ...

China Mine Accident

AP News 154 days ago

In this Tuesday, Sept. 8, 2009 photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency, rescue workers enter the Xinhua No. 4 coal mine in Xinhua District of Pingdingshan city, central China's Henan Province. An explosion at an illegal coal mine killed 35 miners ...

China Pingdingshan closes coal mines, impact limited

Reuters US Online Report World News 155 days ago

SHANGHAI (Reuters) - The city of Pingdingshan in central China's Henan Province has ordered all 157 coal mine shafts within its district to close, after a mine explosion killed 35 people earlier in the day, the official Xinhua News Agency reported on ...

13 dead, 66 missing in China coal mine accident

AFP Global Edition 155 days ago

An accident in a Chinese coal mine early Tuesday left 13 people dead and 66 others missing, the state work safety watchdog said, according to the official Xinhua news agency. The accident took place at about 1:00 am (1700 GMT Monday) at ...

China reports new lead poisoning case

Reuters US Online Report Health News 163 days ago

BEIJING (Reuters) - More than 200 children living beside an industrial park in southwest China have been found to have excessive lead in their blood, state media said on Monday, in the third such case reported in the last month. Health authorities ...

Chinese exec pleads guilty in honey smuggling case

AP News 173 days ago

Sticky deal: Chinese exec pleads guilty to conspiracy to smuggle adulterated honey into US A Chinese executive has pleaded guilty in a plot to smuggle adulterated honey into the United States, one of two criminal cases on the subject filed this year. ...

Chinese steelworkers' protest halts plant takeover

AP News 178 days ago

Chinese steelworkers' protests prompt authorities to halt takeover of factory China on Sunday called off the takeover of a state-owned steel plant after workers protested and trapped an official in the factory office for four days — the second time in a ...

Police clash with steel workers in China: report

AFP Asian Edition 178 days ago

Armed police in central China have clashed with steel workers who were holding an official hostage in a protest over privatisation plans, state media reported Saturday. The incident happened Friday at the Linzhou Steel Corporation in Anyang city, Henan province, after four ...

A rape claim puts focus on Beijing's 'black jails'

AP News 184 days ago

Student's rape claim puts in spotlight Beijing's 'black jails,' where hundreds are detained The 20-year-old student spoke softly but firmly as she described how a dispute over grades led to her rape at an unofficial jail. She had been expelled from college ...

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