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/ 4 November 2005
Nearly 9 000 chickens have died in China’s fourth outbreak of avian flu in just more than two weeks with migratory birds the most likely culprits, the ministry of agriculture said on Friday. Also, about 4 000 poultry and water fowl have died in fresh outbreaks of bird flu in northern Vietnam’s Bac Giang province.
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/ 21 October 2005
While everyone knows China is a rising power, they can only guess at how strong its armed forces are, or how much it is spending to build its military might. The issue of the size of China’s defence budget reemerged this week as United States Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld visited Beijing.
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/ 17 October 2005
Two Chinese astronauts returned safely to Earth on Monday, touching down to a hero’s welcome as China’s second-ever manned space mission marked another step in its drive to becoming a space power. Astronauts Fei Junlong and Nie Haisheng came back from a five-day flight, parachuting softly onto a field in Inner Mongolia in the the capsule of their <i>Shenzhou VI</i> spacecraft.
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/ 12 October 2005
Waving banners and banging drums, thousands of primary school children on Wednesday paraded through the northwest Chinese city of Jiuquan, celebrating the nation’s second manned foray into space. ”Shenzhou VI successfully launched,” they chanted in not entirely perfect unison, one hour after China’s most ambitious space mission yet blasted off from a secretive launch site in the desert three hours’ drive away.
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/ 15 February 2005
At least 203 workers were killed after a gas explosion at a coal mine in north-east China in the worst mining disaster in the country’s recent history, mining officials and state media said on Tuesday. China’s coal industry, the most dangerous in the world, saw 6 027 workers die in accidents in 2004, official figures show.
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/ 21 October 2004
An underground gas explosion has ripped through a mine in central China, killing at least 56 workers and leaving nearly 100 missing in one of the worst mining disasters in recent memory, officials said on Thursday. The shafts of the Daping coal mine near Xinmi in Henan province were packed with about 450 workers when disaster struck.
Almost 250 people are confirmed dead after a fortnight of torrential rains across large parts of China, state media said on Sunday.