AlHijjah 28, 1432, Nov 24, 2011, SPA -- The Chinese navy will hold exercises in the Pacific Ocean this month, UPI cited the defense ministry as saying.
The ministry's brief announcement, carried by the official Xinhua news agency, described the (...)
AlHijjah 28, 1432, Nov 24, 2011, SPA -- At least 17 people died and two were injured after an overloaded light truck plunged into a river in a mountainous area
of south-western China's Sichuan province, dpa quoted reports as saying on (...)
AlHijjah 27, 1432, Nov 23, 2011, SPA - Turkmenistan will boost natural gas deliveries to China by two-thirds under an agreement signed Wednesday in Beijing.
The agreement will increase annual gas deliveries by 25 billion cubic meters a year, bring (...)
AlHijjah 27, 1432, Nov 23, 2011, SPA -- Turkmenistan will boost natural gas deliveries to energy-hungry China under an agreement signed Wednesday that will see the central Asian nation supply about half of China's gas needs, AP reported.
The (...)
AlHijjah 25, 1432, Nov 21, 2011, SPA - A Chinese vice premier is calling at talks with U.S. officials for cooperative efforts to ensure global "economic health."
Wang Qishan said Monday the global crisis is "very serious" during a meeting of the (...)
AlHijjah 24, 1432, Nov 20, 2011, SPA - Fourteen people died Saturday after a chemical plant explosion in the eastern Chinese city of Xintai, state media reported.
The state-run news Xinhua news agency reported the explosion occurred Saturday (...)
AlHijjah 22, 1432, Nov 18, 2011, SPA -- Olympic weightlifting champion Liao Hui of China
has been suspended for a doping offence until 2014, state news agency
Xinhua reported on Friday, according to dpa.
Xinhua said that Liao failed a doping (...)
AlHijjah 20, 1432, Nov 16, 2011, SPA - Nineteen people, including 17 children, were killed early Wednesday when their overcrowded school bus crashed
head-on into a truck in north-western China early Wednesday, a news report said.
The small bus (...)
AlHijjah 18, 1432, Nov 14, 2011, SPA - Canada's finance minister says Europe should use its own resources to resolve its debt crisis before other countries contribute.
Jim Flaherty said Monday he discussed the issue with Chinese officials in (...)
AlHijjah 18, 1432, Nov 14, 2011, SPA - Seven people were killed and 31 injured in an explosion at a fast-food restaurant in north-western China Monday,
state media reported.
The explosion was caused by a liquefied petroleum gas leak, Xinhua news (...)
AlHijjah 18, 1432, Nov 14, 2011, SPA -- Eleven days after the first Chinese space rendezvous, unmanned spacecraft Shenzhou-8 redocked with a module of the country's planned space lab, Tiangong-1.
The docking was seen as an important step in China's (...)
AlHijjah 18, 1432, Nov 14, 2011, SPA -- An earthquake measuring 6.5 on the Richter scale jolted Molucca Sea at 12:05 p.m. Beijing Time (GMT 0405) Monday, Xinhua quoted the China Earthquake Networks Center as saying.
The epicenter, with a depth of (...)
AlHijjah 17, 1432, Nov 13, 2011, SPA - The death toll from a gas explosion in a coal mine in China's southwestern Yunnan province has risen to 34, rescue workers said on Sunday, state news agency Xinhua reported.
Initial reports after the (...)
AlHijjah 17, 1432, Nov 13, 2011, SPA -- 34 miners died, while nine were trapped, and feared dead, after a gas leak in an illegal mine in the south west of China, dpa cited Xinhua news agency as reporting Sunday.
Rescuers said the chances of (...)
AlHijjah 15, 1432, Nov 11, 2011, SPA -- Infectious diseases killed 1,360 people on the Chinese mainland in October, Xinhua quoted the Ministry of Health as saying Friday.
More than 530,000 infections were registered in the month, including two (...)
AlHijjah 14, 1432, Nov 10, 2011, SPA - Forty-three miners were trapped on Thursday in China at a pit in the south-western province of Yunnan, media reports
said.
The accident occurred early Thursday at the Sizhuang Coal Mine near the city of (...)
AlHijjah 14, 1432, Nov 10, 2011, SPA -- Natural disasters killed 17 people and caused a direct economic loss of 2.63 billion yuan (405 million U.S. dollars) in October, according to a report by the office of the national disaster reduction committee (...)
AlHijjah 12, 1432, Nov 8, 2011, SPA -- An earthquake measuring 7.0 on the Richter scale jolted East China Sea at 10:59 a.m. Beijing Time (GMT 0259) Tuesday, Xinhua quoted the China Earthquake Networks Center as saying.
The epicenter, with a depth (...)
AlHijjah 10, 1432, Nov 6, 2011, SPA -- The heads of China's largest technology companies have endorsed Beijing's aim to intensify controls of online social media, pledging to "stop the spread of harmful information" on the Internet, state news (...)
AlHijjah 9, 1432, Nov 5, 2011, SPA -- At least eight miners died and 45 were trapped in an accident at a coal mine in central China, state media quoted
rescue officials saying Saturday, dpa reported.
A shaft collapsed Thursday evening in the (...)
AlHijjah 9, 1432, Nov 5, 2011, SPA -- Forty-five grimy, exhausted Chinese coal miners trapped by a cave-in were rescued Saturday, ending a 36-hour ordeal in the world's most dangerous country for the industry. Eight miners were killed in the (...)
AlHijjah 8, 1432, Nov 4, 2011, SPA -- Four coal miners have been killed in an accident in central China, which left 50 trapped, dpa cited a news report as saying Friday.
A total of 75 miners were in the Qianqiu mine in Sanmenxia, Henan
Province, (...)
AlHijjah 6, 1432, Nov 2, 2011, SPA -- China successfully carried out its first docking exercise on Thursday between two unmanned spacecraft, a key test of the rising power's plans to secure a long-term manned foothold in space, according to (...)
AlHijjah 3, 1432, Oct 30, 2011, SPA - A gas explosion at a coal mine in central China killed 28 miners and left one trapped inside, state media reported
rescuers as saying Sunday.
Thirty five miners were inside when the explosion occurred Saturday (...)
AlHijjah 3, 1432, Oct 30, 2011, SPA -- Chinese President Hu Jintao on Sunday departed forAustria for a three-day visit that would mark 40 years of diplomatic relations.
The visit would see the signing of seven agreements covering economics and (...)