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chinadigitaltimes.net » China Digital Times - Oct 9, 2008
From AFP: Chinese authorities are investigating local officials who allegedly hid or downplayed two deadly mining accidents that killed at least 75 people, state media said Thursday. Twenty-two officials are under …
Also tagged: politics, culture, society, transparency, information revolution
chinadigitaltimes.net » China Digital Times - Sep 21, 2008
AP reports on the latest mining disasters in China: The official China Daily newspaper said 37 miners were killed in a gas explosion before dawn Sunday at a private mine near Dengfeng city in Henan province in central …
Also tagged: society, heilongjiang, henan
chinadigitaltimes.net » China Digital Times - Sep 17, 2008
Now that the glow of the Olympics is wearing off, journalists are taking another look at post-Olympics/Paralympics China and are not so optimistic. From AP: China received widespread praise for organizing the games …
Also tagged: politics, society, food safety, beijing olympics 2008, olympics impact
chinadigitaltimes.net » China Digital Times - Sep 15, 2008
From The New York Times: Just less than a week after the deaths of 254 villagers, the central government has fired the governor and vice governor of Shanxi Province. The villagers drowned in muddy iron ore waste that …
Also tagged: politics, accountability, landslides, shanxi
chinadigitaltimes.net » China Digital Times - Sep 10, 2008
The death toll from the landslide in Linfen, which was caused by a pile of illegally-maintained iron ore waste, is now 128 and expected to rise. From AP: Two thousand rescuers shoveled and hammered through the debris …
Also tagged: sci tech, society, landslides, linfen, iron ore, top article
chinadigitaltimes.net » China Digital Times - Sep 7, 2008
Three mining accidents in the past week have killed at least 42 miners, according to Reuters: Flood waters trapped 24 in a coal pit in central Henan province on Sunday, the official Xinhua news agency said. By Monday …
Also tagged: society
chinadigitaltimes.net » China Digital Times - Sep 4, 2008
Another mining accident in China has caused 27 deaths, according to Xinhua: The explosion took place at 9 a.m. Thursday when 41 miners were working in the mine in Fuxin, Liaoning Province, among whom 14 returned to …
chinadigitaltimes.net » China Digital Times - Aug 19, 2008
From AFP: Eighteen miners are confirmed dead after a gas explosion ripped through a coal mine in northeast China, the State Administration of Work Safety said Tuesday. The accident happened Monday at Baijiagou Coal …
Also tagged: society, economy, coal mines, liaoning
chinadigitaltimes.net » China Digital Times - Aug 9, 2008
From Reuters: Fewer people died in China’s often deadly mines in the first seven months of 2008 compared with the same period last year, a safety official said on Saturday, but warned that the situation remained …
Also tagged: society, economy, coal mines
chinadigitaltimes.net » China Digital Times - Jul 21, 2008
From AFP: A flood in a south China coal mine has trapped 56 people underground, state-run media said Tuesday. Rescuers have yet to make contact with the miners at the Nadu mine in Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region …
Also tagged: society, economy, coal mines, guangxi