Words of the Week: Unlucky Enough to be Born in China
The Word of the Week comes from the Grass-Mud Horse Lexicon, a glossary of terms created by...
mining accidents
Minitrue: Don’t Hype Mining Accident Swindlers
The following censorship instruction, issued to the media by government authorities, has been...
Satan Lucky’s Floating World
Danwei’s Alexander Ye interviews artist Satan Lucky, whose monstrous embodiments of aspects...
Mining Tibet, Poisoning China
At The Asian Review of Books, the University of Sydney’s Kerry Brown reviews Gabriel Lafitte’s forthcoming book, Spoiling Tibet: China and Resource Nationalism on the Roof of the World, available October 8th: A few...
Mining in Tibet: The Price of Gold
The Economist examines vigorous exploitation of Tibet’s natural resources in light of a landslide that killed 83 at a mine near Lhasa last week: THE ecology of the Tibetan plateau, noted the Ministry of Land and Resources...
Landslide Draws Attention to Toll of Mining on Tibet
Rescue work has resumed at the site of a disaster-struck mine near Lhasa after being suspended on Monday due to the risk of further landslides. The bodies of 59 of the 83 workers buried last Friday have now been recovered. China...
Tibet Landslide Rescue Work Suspended
Rescue efforts have been halted at a mine near Lhasa due to fears that fresh landslides might add to the toll from Friday’s disaster. 36 bodies have been recovered, and little hope remains of any survivors among the 83...
83 Buried in Tibet Mine Landslide (Updated)
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....
Ministry of Truth: Tibet Mine Landslide
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been leaked and distributed online. Central Propaganda Department: Regarding the natural massif landslide with occurred at the China Gold...
Political Connections Linked to Higher Worker Death Rates
At Bloomberg Businessweek, Christina Larson examines a previously featured study which found a strong correlation between executives’ political connections and higher death rates among employees. Coal mining in China is...
Censorship Vault: Beijing Internet Instructions Series (21)
In partnership with the China Copyright and Media blog, CDT is adding the “Beijing Internet Instructions” series to the Censorship Vault. These directives were originally published on Canyu.org (Participate) and date from 2005...
Ministry of Truth: Vulgar Video, Explosions, and More
Update (12/12/11): Liu Qibao was originally noted here as the new head of the CCP Publicity...
Censorship Vault: Beijing Internet Instructions Series (13)
In partnership with the China Copyright and Media blog, CDT is adding the “Beijing Internet...
20 Die in Coal Mine Plunge
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...
China Coal Industry Remains Deadliest For Miners
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...
Three Chinese Miners Rescued in Hunan
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....
20 Chinese Coal Miners Killed, 23 Trapped in Latest Accident (Updated)
A mine explosion in Yunnan has killed 20 and left 23 trapped underground, just days after the rescue of over 50 miners in Henan following a cave-in caused by an earthquake. From The Telegraph: A total of 420 miners have been...
Last 45 Rescued in Henan Coal Mine Accident
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...
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