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Thirty-two colliers rescued from flooded mine

November 18th, 2008 - 12:34 pm ICT by IANS -
Jiaxian (China), Nov 18 (Xinhua) Rescuers pulled 32 of the 34 trapped miners out of a flooded coal mine in central China's Henan province early Tuesday, 23 hours after the accident occurred. ...

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Thirty-three colliers trapped in flooded China mine

November 17th, 2008 - 7:16 pm ICT by IANS -
Zhengzhou (China), Nov 17 (Xinhua) Thirty-three people were trapped in a flooded coal mine early Monday in central China's Henan province. Previous report said 34 people were trapped, but the Henan provincial ...

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Man sentenced to death for causing blast in China

November 1st, 2008 - 3:04 pm ICT by IANS -
Changsha (China), Nov 1 (Xinhua) A court in central China's Hunan province has given the death sentence to a man for trying to blow up a government building and injuring 18 people, ...

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Chinese economy in slow down mode in wake of global meltdown

October 21st, 2008 - 4:16 pm ICT by ANI -
Beijing, Oct.21 (ANI): The global meltdown has affected China''s booming economy too. A CBS report says that while the Chinese economy is still growing, it is doing so at its slowest pace ...

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37 killed in China mine blast

September 21st, 2008 - 4:34 pm ICT by IANS -
Zhengzhou (China), Sep 21 (Xinhua) At least 37 workers were killed in a massive explosion in a coal mine in central China's Henan province early Sunday, rescuers said.The accident happened at about ...

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Five dead in China rain

September 1st, 2008 - 7:43 pm ICT by IANS -
Beijing, Sep 1 (Xinhua) At least five people were killed and three reported missing Monday after four consecutive days of torrential rain in central China's Hubei province. The heaviest rain to hit ...

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Man kills six in China

August 3rd, 2008 - 2:55 pm ICT by IANS -
Xinhua Wuhan (China), Aug 3 (Xinhua) Police in this central China city have arrested a mentally deranged man who killed six villagers and injured one. Zhang Jinfu, 43, a farmer from Xuyang village ...

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Ultrasonic frogs can tune their ears to different sound frequencies

July 23rd, 2008 - 1:21 pm ICT by ANI -
Washington, July 23 (ANI): Researchers have discovered that a frog that lives near noisy springs in central China can tune its ears to different sound frequencies, much like the tuner on ...

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Chinese long distance runner Zhou Chunxiu eyes gold

July 22nd, 2008 - 3:13 pm ICT by IANS -
Xinhua Beijing, July 22 (Xinhua) Despite her low-key build-up for the Olympics, Zhou Chunxiu carries the Chinese women's hope of winning an Olympic gold from the track and field in the absence of ...

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Building collapse kills eight in China

July 6th, 2008 - 9:39 am ICT by IANS -
Xinhua Wuhan (China), July 6 (Xinhua) At least eight people have been killed and 13 injured in a building collapse in central China, officials have said. At least 20 construction workers were buried ...

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Ancient lake sediments help scientists trace 7,000 yrs of mining and metal use in China

June 23rd, 2008 - 2:18 pm ICT by ANI -
Washington, June 23 (ANI): By using ancient sediments taken from a Chinese lake, scientists have been able to trace the 7,000-year-old history of mining and metal use in central China from ...

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China quake toll goes past 67,000

May 27th, 2008 - 5:40 pm ICT by admin -
Xinhua Beijing, May 27 (Xinhua) China Tuesday updated the toll in the May 12 earthquake at 67,187 and said more than 20,790 people were still untraced following the quake in the southwestern province ...

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Pandas had sensed China quake before it happened

Pandas had sensed China quake before it happened

May 16th, 2008 - 2:45 pm ICT by admin -
Washington, May 16 (ANI): If eyewitness accounts are to be believed, pandas had sensed the massive earthquake that shook central China on May 12, with the animals behaving strangely just minutes ...

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Female concave-eared frogs use ultrasonic calls to attract mates

May 12th, 2008 - 3:22 pm ICT by admin -
London, May 12 (ANI): Unlike other female frogs, concave-eared frogs draw their mates by producing a high-pitched chirp that to the human ear sounds like that of a bird, according to ...

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Over 300 trapped in China mudslide

April 20th, 2008 - 6:06 pm ICT by admin -
Xinhua Yichang (China), April 20 (Xinhua) Disaster relief teams Sunday stretched to rescue more than 300 people in a village in central China that had been nearly totally buried under a massive mudslide. ...

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Soil sinks along Yangtze riverbank in China

March 1st, 2008 - 11:06 pm ICT by admin -
Xinhua Wuhan (China), March 1 (Xinhua) The soil at a construction site along the Yangtze river in central China's Wuhan city is sinking, posing a potential threat to the riverbank, local authorities said ...

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China pledges action to control offshore pollution

February 29th, 2008 - 1:00 am ICT by admin -
Xinhua Changsha (China), Feb 25 (Xinhua) China will go all out this year to check ever worsening damage to offshore ecology caused by the discharge of land-borne pollutants, director of China's State Oceanic ...

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China pledges action to control offshore pollution

February 25th, 2008 - 3:44 pm ICT by admin -
Xinhua Changsha (China), Feb 25 (Xinhua) China will go all out this year to check ever worsening damage to offshore ecology caused by the discharge of land-borne pollutants, director of China's State Oceanic ...

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Central China confirms new human bird flu case

February 19th, 2008 - 3:08 pm ICT by admin -
New Delhi, Feb.19 (ANI): China's Ministry of Health has confirmed a human case of H5N1 bird flu in the central Hunan Province. A 22-year-old man surnamed Li in Jianghua County, Yongzhou City, suffered ...

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15 killed in China highway accident

February 19th, 2008 - 1:03 pm ICT by admin -
Xinhua Changsha (China), Feb 19 (Xinhua) At least 15 people have been killed and 25 injured when a bus rammed into the rear of a tanker, triggering a fire and an explosion in ...

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Snowstorm-hit areas of China recovering slowly

February 11th, 2008 - 4:30 pm ICT by admin -
New Delhi, Feb 11 (ANI): Life in the snowstorm-hit areas of south and east China provinces, where at least 60 people were killed, is gradually returning to normal as disrupted transport and ...

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Chinese scientists developing new HIV vaccine

January 23rd, 2008 - 4:15 pm ICT by admin -
New Delhi, January 23 (ANI): Scientists are developing a new AIDS vaccine with the ability to ward off three variants of HIV sweeping across Hong Kong, Taiwan, and western areas of China. ...

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Remains of rare turtle discovered in Central China

January 5th, 2008 - 4:06 pm ICT by admin -
New Delhi, Jan 5 (ANI): A 100-million-year-old turtle fossil was recently discovered in a river in Central China. A local resident discovered organic remains of the turtle in a river in Jiaxian, located ...

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China to build observation station to study melting of glacier range

December 26th, 2007 - 3:31 pm ICT by admin -
New Delhi, Dec 26 (ANI): China is building an observation station at the foot of the Qilianshan Mountains to monitor the melting of its longest glacier range, which has been significantly receding ...

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Chinas famous horse-and-chariot tomb will soon be excavated

November 29th, 2007 - 5:55 pm ICT by admin -
New Delhi, Nov 29 (ANI): A major excavation work will soon begin at the famous horse-and-chariot chamber of a 2,400-year old tomb in central China's Hubei Province. "Excavation will start on the 131-meter-long ...

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Archaeologists unearth 1,500 year old Chinese cemetery

November 26th, 2007 - 2:43 pm ICT by admin -
Beijing, Nov 26 (ANI): Archaeologists have excavated an ancient graveyard in Central china's Henan Province, which dates back to the Eastern Wei Dynasty about 1,500 years ago. Located in Anyang, a major ...

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