Mite-borne infectious disease confirmed in Anhui
2008-10-31 12:14:32
Nearly 60 people in east China's Anhui Province have been confirmed as having tropical typhus, an infectious disease caused by mite larva bites, health authorities said on Friday.
Three dead, 26 still missing in colliery gas blast
2008-10-31 11:12:24
Three are confirmed dead and 26 others remain missing 36 hours after a colliery gas explosion in northwest China's Shaanxi Province, rescue officials said on Friday.
Cop involved in Feb 29 shooting suspended
2008-10-31 09:58:18
A senior police officer, who ordered the fatal shooting of a civilian in Jiangxi province on Feb 29, has been suspended pending a new investigation into the case, the local prosecutors' office said Thursday.
12 dead in east China elevator fall
2008-10-31 00:04:16
Twelve construction workers died after the elevator they rode fell at a construction site in east China's Fujian Province on Thursday.
3 killed, 55 trapped in 3 separate mine accidents
2008-10-31 14:23:08
Two miners were killed and fifty-five others remain trapped as a result of three separate colliery accidents in China on Wednesday, local authorities said.
21 trapped in third China mine accident in 24 hours
2008-10-30 15:13:21
Twenty-one miners were trapped after a coal mine flooded in central China's Henan Province. It was the third major mine accident in China on Wednesday.
Twenty-nine miners trapped in northwest China
2008-10-30 13:08:55
Twenty-nine miners are believed to be trapped after a gas explosion at a coal mine in northwest China's Shaanxi Province late on Wednesday.
Elevator plunge kills 12 in East China
2008-10-30 11:39:39
Twelve people were killed after an elevator at a construction site precipitated in Xiapu County, east China's Fujian Province, on Thursday morning, according to the provincial production safety watchdog.
11 bridge workers killed in lift crash
2008-10-30 09:36:08
Eleven workers were killed and 12 others were injured at a bridge construction site here on Tuesday, when a cable holding the container-lift they were in snapped, plunging them 9 m to the road below, the Xinhua News Agency reported yesterday.
Beijing car restrictions drive people mad
2008-10-30 07:55:01
When Zhang Ximan bought her second car before the Olympics, she did not expect Beijing's vehicle restrictions to become permanent.
Student stabs professor to death in Beijing
2008-10-30 07:10:48
A professor at a Beijing law school was stabbed to death by a student on Tuesday, the third such attack in China in less than a month, the Beijing News reported Wednesday.
Guangdong faces warming threat
2008-10-30 07:37:56
The average temperature in Guangdong could rise by 5.7 C from 2011 to 2100 unless it turns to greener methods to sustain its economic growth, experts have warned.