China successfully launched a Long March-2D rocket on Sunday, sending 14 new satellites into space.
The rocket blasted off from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in north China's Shanxi Province at 11:14 a.m. (Beijing Time).
The satellites, (...)
The world's largest facility to turn excess methane gas from coal mines into electricity has been completed in north China's Shanxi Province, state-run news agency Xinhua reported.
The facility was completed by the Lu'an Group, which owns the Gaohe (...)
Three residents were injured in a gas explosion in their apartment before dawn on Tuesday in north China's Shanxi Province, said local authorities.
The gas explosion took place at around 0 a.m. in an apartment in Huaihai residential quarter of (...)
At least seven people were killed and another 10 injured in a truck collision in north China's Shanxi Province, local authorities told Xinhua on Sunday afternoon.
According to the information office of Jincheng City, the accident happened at 2:50 (...)
Six children have drowned in a river in Pingyao County, north China's Shanxi Province, local government said on Sunday.
The children, aged from 5 to 11, fell into water while ice skating on a section of Huiji River in Nanzheng Village on Saturday (...)
AlHijjah 11, 1434, Oct 16, 2013, SPA -- A landslide in Dai County of northern China's Shanxi Province has killed three people, local authorities said Wednesday.
The landslide occurred at 7:20 p.m. Tuesday at the sorting facility of the Mingli Mine, (...)
Nine people died and 29 others were injured when a bus and truck both plunged off a bridge after colliding Wednesday morning in north China's Shanxi Province, authorities said.
The bus collided with the truck on a section of a highway in Wenshui (...)
Seven men have been confirmed dead after being trapped underground for more than 40 hours in a coal mine flood in north China's Shanxi Province, the local government said on Thursday.
The accident happened at about 4 a.m. on Tuesday in Yangquan, (...)
The death toll from an explosion at a restaurant in north China's Shanxi Province on Friday evening rose to 14 early Saturday with another 47 people being injured, local investigators said.
The explosion, which occurred at 7:52 p.m., triggered a (...)
AlQa'dah 25, 1433, Oct 11, 2012, SPA -- Three people were killed in a construction site collapse on Wednesday in northwest China's Shanxi Province, local authorities said Thursday.
The accident occurred around 6:50 p.m. at a Xinfei Group (...)
More than 2,000 people are struggling to put out a fire that has been raging in a forest since late Monday afternoon in Shanxi Province, local authorities said Tuesday.
The fire started around 6 p.m. in the forest in Jinzhong City in central (...)
Five people were killed after a residential building collapsed early Tuesday in north China's Shanxi province, according to local authorities.
The collapse, believed to have been caused by an explosion, happened at 5:20 a.m. in the village of (...)
Rescue work is taking place to pluck nine miners from a colliery in north China's Shanxi province that flooded early on Friday morning.
As of 10 a.m., the miners were trapped in Shanfu Coal Mine, in Xiangyuan county of Changzhi, according to the (...)
Thirteen people have died and another one has been injured after an alleged arson in north China's Shanxi province Friday afternoon, the local public security bureau said.
The incident occurred at about 4 p.m. in a one-story house on Shenglixi (...)
Fifteen people have been confirmed dead after a tourist bus plunged into a ravine Saturday morning in north China's Shanxi Province, said local authorities.
The accident happened at 9:25 a.m. at a section of the State Highway 207 in the (...)
Seven workers have been confirmed dead as of Monday morning after the roof of their coal mine collapsed Sunday in the northern province of Shanxi, local authorities said.
The accident occurred Sunday noon in a shaft of the Beiyu Coal Mine in Puxian (...)
Rescuers Saturday recovered the bodies of seven workers that have been trapped underground a flooded coal mine since Friday afternoon in north China's Shanxi Province, local authorities said.
Rescuers continued their search for the remaining four (...)
Three people were killed and 17 others injured, two severely, after a blast ripped through a boiler room in a hospital in northern Chinese city of Changzhi Friday, local authorities said.
A person was killed instantly when a boiler exploded at (...)
Awwal 26, 1432 / April 30, 2011, SPA -- Thousands of fire fighters are working to put out a forest fire that broke out in north China's Shanxi Province Friday night, provincial authorities said Saturday.
The fire started at about 9 p.m. in a (...)
Hijjah 14, 1431 / Nov. 20, 2010, SPA -- One worker was killed and seven injured in a chemical factory blast at 7:10 p.m. Saturday in north China's Shanxi Province, said local authorities.
The explosion occurred at Yushe chemical plant in Jinzhong (...)
At least eight people were killed and more than 30 others injured after a bus rolled over in Datong city of north China's Shanxi Province, local police said.
The accident occurred at 11:20 a.m. on Sunday, Xinhua reported.
Rescue is ongoing. (...)
Tens of thousands of people in north China's Shanxi Province flooded onto the streets Saturday afternoon and stayed until Sunday morning after earthquake rumors spread in the coal-rich region recently hit by a 4.8-magnitude quake.
Major streets, (...)
Four miners were still trapped in a flooded coal mine in Shanxi, a major coal-producing province in north China, Xinhua quoted local authorities as saying.
The accident occurred at about 4:30 p.m. Friday in a coal pit run by the Lingshi Coal Mine (...)
Thirteen people were killed while 41 others were injured in a road accident in north China"s Shanxi Province, Xinhua quoted local authorities as saying.
The accident happened at 3:50 p.m. Friday, when a bus with 54 on board from Hebei Province to (...)
Three people were killed and two others injured in an explosion triggered by illegal explosives manufacture Friday evening in a brickyard in Wenshui County of north China's Shanxi Province, Xinhua reported.
County officials said the owner of the (...)
