From AP: Two coal mine managers have each been sentenced to seven years in prison for their roles in an accident last August that left 172 miners dead, state media said Thursday. Huayuan Mining Co. Chairman Zheng Zhenxiu and...
AP gives an update on the Huayuan Mine disaster of last summer: Wrapping up an investigation into one of the worst accidents in more than a half-century of communist rule, safety investigators referred six people to prosecutors,...
From AP, via Los Angeles Times: Officials have abandoned efforts to retrieve the bodies of 172 coal miners from a flooded mine in eastern China, family members said Saturday, deepening their anger at what they see as callous treatment by the government and mining company. A government committee notified some families that more than 40 […]
The news of secret breeding centers for Olympics pigs is all over the Chinese cyberspace. A typical reaction is from blogger bbcjy commenting on his Happy as a Fish blog, translated by CDT: The fact there are “Olympics...
From The China Blog – TIME: A picture in the South China Morning Post shows this slogan on a banner hanging over the mine in northeastern Shandong province where 172 miners were trapped by a flood last Friday. As the accompanying story points out, some of the hundreds of relatives of the miners waiting outside […]
Huang Yi, spokesman of the State Administration of Work Safety announced the establishment of an investigative team to look into the cause of the mine flood, via China Daily: …Huang refuted some one-sided media reports that had blamed the mine flood on natural disaster or human factor alone, saying his administration had not made any […]
A report from The Beijing News introduced more information on the trapped miners in Shandong. Photos from Xinhua. Translated by CDT: According to experts, the volume of stagnant water in the Huayuan mine is about 1269 cubic meters, which is equal to half of the Kunming Lake of the Summer palace. Technically, the entire work […]
Relatives of trapped Chinese coal miners stormed the offices of the mining firm while rescue efforts go on. Click here to watch the video clips on BBC site. Also see this video about the rescue effort. According to China Energy Net, the death toll of mine disasters in 2006 is as high as 10,000, and […]
From AP via Guardian.co.uk: Families of 181 miners trapped in flooded coal mines in eastern China and presumed dead lashed out at one of the companies Tuesday, complaining it had ignored safety warnings to halt work. Rescue workers were pumping water in a bid to reach 172 miners missing for four days in the Huayuan […]
Two weeks after the dramatic rescue of 69 workers from a flooded mine in Henan Province, more than twice that number have been trapped under similar circumstances in a coal mine in Shandong. From the Washington Post: Zhang Dekuan, a senior Shandong province official, told the agency that 756 miners were working in the shaft […]
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