More than three years after the military’s coup d’état, Myanmar remains engulfed in instability and civil war. China has more leverage in Myanmar than any other foreign power, and the ongoing crisis along the China-Myanmar...
In China’s latest mining accident, three miners were killed in a flooded mine in Guizhou while three others were rescued after two and a half days underground. From AP: Xinhua News Agency says they were lifted to safety...
Rescue efforts by thousands of soldiers, armed police and firefighters turned up a single body on Saturday [see update below], over a day and a half after two million cubic meters of mud and rock buried 83 miners near Lhasa....
After one of the deadliest mine accidents in almost three years and another mining accident in Gansu resulting in 20 deaths, the Voice of America reports at least 18 people have died and 5 are missing in China’s most...
Twenty workers were killed in China’s latest mining accident in Gansu. This comes just after another one of the deadliest coal mine blasts in nearly three years. AP reports: A steel cable broke as it was pulling two carriages at...
After a deadly gas explosion in a Sichuan coal mine, another blast in Jiangxi killed 15 miners and injured 11, from Xinhua: Rescuers found the body of the last miner, identified as Zhou Ping, in the shaft of Gaokeng Coal Mine in...
At least forty-one miners are dead in Sichuan, in the worst mining accident in almost three years, China Daily reports: Forty-one miners were confirmed dead and five were still trapped in the pit after the explosion, which...
Chinese state media has reported that a gas explosion in Hunan has killed seven people. Mining accidents in China occur frequently, and reports claim that the official death toll over the past ten years has reached over 47,000....
To the Light, a documentary about miners in Sichuan Province, has won the Margaret Mead Filmmaker Award. From the Huffington Post: The visually lyrical and heartbreaking film, which won the Mead’s prestigious award this...
Rescuers have freed the remaining 45 surviving miners trapped in a Henan coal mine after a Thursday cave-in stranded them nearly 500 meters below the surface. From Xinhua News: A rock burst occurred in the Qianqiu Coal Mine in...
A gas explosion at a state-owned coal mine in Hengyang City, Hunan Province killed 29 workers, and six other workers were rescued. The cause of the blast is believed to be from a large burst of gas in the mine that was ignited...
Sounds emerged from the flooded mine where twenty-two miners are still trapped after almost a week, AP reports: The noises came from a 920-foot (280-meter) pipe that was drilled late Sunday to allow fresh air into the illegal...
At least eight miners have been killed and 70 others are trapped in a series of mine accidents across China. From AFP: Four miners were killed in a gas explosion in a mine in western-most China’s Xinjiang region Thursday,...
Two mining accidents in Guizhou and Guangxi have trapped 40 miners underground. From AP: Rescuers scrambled to reach the miners at the Niupeng coal mine in the county of Pingtang in Guizhou province on Saturday morning,...
Illegal mine owners are taking advantage of rising demand for gold, and surging prices, and exploiting the migrant workers who find work in the dangerous mines. From Bloomberg: Trade volume on the Shanghai Gold Exchange, set up...
On The World, Mary Kay Magistad is starting a four-part series about coal in China. The first episode was broadcast today: China’s size and speed of growth invite superlatives. Here are a few about the fuel for its growth. China...
Danwei posts two links to stories about miners in danger. First, in Yunnan, nine miners were killed after explosives detonated inside, but it was later revealed that several of the miners had been shot before the explosion. From...
The search for miners at the Pingyu Mine in Henan has ended with all 37 missing miners found dead. From Reuters: The gas leak occurred early Saturday morning in a pit owned by Pingyu Coal & Electric Co Ltd based in Yuzhou...
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