Topic: Fuxin

Special report: China tries to give old king coal a merrier soul

Reuters Environmental Online Report - 394 days ago
FUXIN, China (Reuters) - Near the entrance of what was once Asia's biggest open-cast coal mine, Fan Chunming smiles as he points to a scale model of a manicured park with playgrounds, forests and streams -- an Arcadian vision that will be built ...

China road accident kills at least 32: state media

AFP Global Edition - 628 days ago
At least 32 people were killed when a truck and coach collided on an expressway in northeastern China on Sunday, state-run Xinhua news agency reported.The accident occurred on a section of an expressway that was undergoing maintenance in the city of ...

Fuxin

The Encyclopedia Britannica - 916 days ago
Fuxin, Wade-Giles romanization Fu-hsin, city, northwestern Liaoning sheng (province), northeastern China. During the Qing dynasty (1644-1911/12), until the end of the 19th century, the border area remained a pasture ground reserved for the Mongolians. Fuxin became a market centre on the ...

Suffer in silence

guardian.co.uk - 1191 days ago
Not the foreign protesters who have flagged up issues such as Tibet and religious freedom through demonstrations in Beijing. "When I came across Fuxin, I had been in Sichuan, covering the earthquake's aftermath, for almost two weeks; it was the sixth ...

United States Helps China Harness Methane Gas

Basil & Spice - 1238 days ago
Sadie Kneidel is part of a daughter-mother writing team in North Carolina. Just after 9:00 on the morning of September 4, an ominous rumble echoed through the hills of China's Liaoning province. This latest in a series of lethal mining ...

Chinese report says 24 killed in mine accident

AP News - 1247 days ago
State news agency says mine explosion in northeast China kills 24 peopleA gas explosion inside a mine in northeast China on Thursday killed 24 people and injured six, local authorities and state media said. Three others were trapped inside.The official Xinhua ...

27 die in China coal mine blast: local official, state media

AFP Asian Edition - 1253 days ago
Twenty-seven people were killed and six injured Thursday in a coal mine explosion in northeast China, state media said, the latest disaster to hit the nation's notoriously dangerous mining industry.The gas blast occurred at a mine in the city of ...