China NewsNews on China continually updated from thousands of sources around the net.18 dead in northwest China mine collapse- July 2, 2008 State media reports that 18 miners have been killed in a mine-shaft collapse in northwest China.Twenty-eight miners were working underground when the accident happened Tuesday at the state-owned Huisen Liangshuijing Coal Mine in Shaanxi province, the official Xinhua News Agency reported Wednesday.Twelve men were rescued but two of them later died in the hospital, it said. Rescuers searched for the remaining 16 trapped men but later confirmed they had died.Work safety officials are investigating.http://www.topix.net/world/china/2008/07/18-dead-in-northwest-china-mine-collapse?fromrss=... Shenzhou VII ready for final test- July 2, 2008 The team that developed Shenzhou VII, China's third manned spacecraft, will begin the final test at Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in Gansu province in a few days.http://www.topix.net/world/china/2008/07/shenzhou-vii-ready-for-final-test?fromrss=1 Security tight in Chinese town after riot; 300 people believed arrested- July 1, 2008 Police vehicles lie overturned in front of a burned-out police building in Weng'an, a county in Guizhou province, China.http://www.topix.net/world/china/2008/07/security-tight-in-chinese-town-after-riot-300-peo... China resists bid for Zimbabwe sanctions- July 1, 2008 While China heaped praise on the United States for its help in recovering from a devastating earthquake, there was no sign Sunday its gratitude would extend to international matters.Despite unusually warm expressions of thanks for the quake aid, Chinese officials were cool at best to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's attempts to enlist Beijing's support to slap U.N. Security Council sanctions against Zimbabwe for a widely denounced election.China, an ally and trading partner of Zimbabwe,...http://www.topix.net/world/china/2008/07/china-resists-bid-for-zimbabwe-sanctions?fromrss=... |