Unusually early heavy snowfall blanketed swaths of northeastern China this week, forcing airlines to cancel flights, halting trains and shutting schools and roads in the country's first major blizzard of the season.
The first snowfall in northeast (...)
One person died and two others are missing after an explosion ripped through a residential building on Friday morning in northeast China's Liaoning Province.
Part of the building collapsed after the blast occurred at around 5 a.m. in the Lingdong (...)
An explosion ripped through a chemical plant in northeast China's Liaoning Province on Tuesday afternoon, local authorities said.
Fire fighters have arrived at the plant in the city of Liaoyang to put out the explosion-triggered fire, Xinhua (...)
AlQa'dah 10, 1434, Sep 16, 2013, SPA -- Rescue operation has entered the third day on Monday after five mine workers were trapped in a flooding accident in northeast China's Liaoning Province, local authorities confirmed.
Three rescue teams have (...)
AlQa'dah 9, 1434, Sep 15, 2013, SPA -- Five people were killed in an explosion in a plant in northeast China's Liaoning Province on Saturday, local authorities said on Sunday.
The explosion occurred at around 10 a.m. Saturday in a small private (...)
Recent typhoons wreaking havoc across eastern China left six people dead and six people missing as of Saturday, UPI quoted officials as saying.
One person died and five others were missing after a bridge they were crossing in Dalian, Liaoning (...)
Eight people are missing after a sand mining ship capsized Friday afternoon in the Bohai Sea, local authorities told Xinhua Saturday.
The incident happened 5 p.m. Friday when a ship registered in Anhui Province capsized off the coast of Huludao (...)
An chemical plant in northeast China's Liaoning province exploded Tuesday afternoon, local fire department said.
The explosion occurred at 4:30 p.m. at the Wangjiao Chemical Plant in the Yuhong district of the provincial capital of Shenyang, (...)
Four people died and another five were trapped following a roof collapse in a colliery in northeast China's Liaoning Province, authorities said Monday.
Twelve miners were working in a shaft when the accident happened at 11 a.m. Sunday in the (...)
A forest fire that broke out on Tuesday in northeast China's Liaoning province, has been extinguished with no reports of injury or death, the local fire control headquarters said.
The fire broke out around 11 a.m. near Qipan Mountain in the city of (...)
Two more cutaneous anthrax infections were reported in northeast Liaoning Province, bringing the total number of people who were hospitalized for the disease to 32, health authorities said Tuesday.
The two cases were found Monday in Donggang City, (...)
China arrested 14 North Koreans in one of its northeastern border areas last month, sources said Thursday, as Beijing and Pyongyang intensified their crackdown on North Korean defectors, as Yonhap reported.
The number of North Koreans fleeing their (...)
Four miners have been confirmed dead, after a coal mine tunnel collapsed Tuesday afternoon in northeast China's Liaoning Province, the local authorities said Wednesday.
The provincial coal mine safety department said the accident happened at 4 (...)
Hijjah 16, 1431 / Nov. 22, 2010, SPA -- Six people were killed and one was injured Saturday after a crane crashed to the ground in Dandong City, northeast China's Liaoning Province, provincial authorities said Monday.
Six workers were working on (...)
Nine people were confirmed dead and nine others were injured when a real estate project in Shenyang, northeast China's Liaoning Province, caught fire Saturday.
Fire broke out at the sales office of Wanda Plaza in Tiexi District at 2:54 p.m., (...)
Two people were killed and seven injured Saturday in a highway pileup involving nine vehicles in northeast China's Liaoning Province, local traffic police said.
The accident occurred Saturday noon on the Huludao City section of a highway linking (...)
More than 160,000 people in northeast China's Liaoning Province are suffering from drinking water shortages due to the ongoing drought that began in June, Xinhua quoted the provincial water resources department as saying today.
The drought has also (...)
Rescuers on Saturday recovered the bodies of the five workers trapped in a flooded gold mine in Liaoning Province after a five-day search, Xinhua quoted the rescue headquarter as saying.
The bodies were found at 2:25 a.m. in a shaft about 550 (...)
Three people were confirmed dead and one was missing after a coal mine accident Monday in Fuxin County of northeast China's Liaoning Province, a local official told Xinhua Wednesday.
There was a flood in Yong'an Coal Mine in Wofenggou, Fuxin, at 10 (...)
Twenty-four people were killed and six injured on Thursday morning in a gas explosion at a coal mine in Fuxin, northeast China's Liaoning Province, Xinhua quoted local authorities as saying.
Rescuers are searching for three other miners who were (...)
The death toll from a coal mine explosion in northeast China's Liaoning Province at the weekend rose to 16 after two missing miners were found dead, Xinhua quoted investigators as saying today.
The bodies of two missing miners in the blast were (...)
Fourteen miners were killed, two more missing and two others injured in a coal mine gas explosion in Huludao City, Liaoning Province, Xinhua quoted local authorities as saying today.
The accident took place at the No.3 Coal Mine of Shaguotun (...)
Drinking water shortages caused by drought are affecting more than 570,000 people in northeast China's Liaoning Province, Xinhua reported.
The area most affected is in the mountainous western part of Liaoning, one of the country's major grain (...)
Three villagers were killed and two were injured when the roof of a slag pit collapsed in China's northeastern Liaoning Province, Xinhua quoted a local source as saying today.
Three farmers from Chenxiangtun town in Shenyang city were buried and (...)
Japanese and North Korean envoys met in Dalian on Saturday and Sunday in a bid to set a date for bilateral discussions under the six-party denuclearization talks, Japan's ambassador Yoshiki Mine said Sunday. Mine, ambassador in charge of (...)