As Most of China Celebrates New Year, a Scramble Continues in Coal Country
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The recent snowstorms that left millions without power in Southern China underscored the countryâs heavy dependence on coal and laid bare the glaring inadequacies of its production and distribution cycle.
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Wild winter weather across China left hundreds of thousands of people stranded on Monday and crippled energy and transport, stoking fears of rising deaths and economic damage blighting the biggest holiday of the year.
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A Chinese coal mine has made the news for a reason other than the grim series of accidents nationwide -- it is claiming a world record for the highest number of simultaneous weddings held underground.
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In China, where coal is king, the governmentâs push to increase the use of alternative energies faces obstacles, from bureaucracy to bottlenecks in manufacturing.
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China struggled on Sunday with transport havoc and threats to energy and food supplies caused by snows and freezing cold, with forecasters warning of more harsh weather across eastern and central areas in coming days.
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A pair of accidents that killed more than 300 miners has underscored the human price China pays for its booming economy and ravenous appetite for coal, an industry that's seen more than 4,500 workers killed on the job this year.
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A mine gas blast in south China has left nine people missing as 181 coal miners in an eastern province remained trapped underground more than 10 days after their pits were flooded, state media said on Wednesday.
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Snow and ice storms have stranded hundreds of thousands of people Â most of them migrant workers hoping to leave for the Chinese New Year Â and more blizzards threatened Monday to wreck what for many is a rare chance to see family.
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Reportedly a fire in an iron mine in Northern China has killed eight miners and 79 miners are still unable to be reached. According to the news from New Chinese News Agency, five miners managed to escape from
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Millions of Chinese workers face long delays as they travel back to their factories after the New Year holidays, officials say
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Officials in northern China say hopes of finding more survivors of Sunday&#39;s mine blast are fading. Twenty-five bodies have been recovered and rescue workers on Monday battled thick smoke while
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China&#39;s national power agency is warning coal and electricity shortages could make for a long cold winter for tens of millions of people in the developed east.
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Chaotic winter weather besieged China's business and farming heartland on Tuesday amid the country's worst power crisis, with one mountain road accident blamed on snow killing 25 people ahead of a major holiday.
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The coldest, snowiest winter in decades has left millions of Chinese without heating and running water, leading the government on Friday to order a suspension of coal exports as the country struggles to meet its power needs.
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Chaotic winter weather besieged  China's business and farming heartland on Tuesday, with no  quick end in sight to weeks of snow and ice that have trapped  energy and food flows ahead of a big national holiday.
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Top Chinese leaders have showed enormous concern over a deadly gas explosion, which took place at the Chenjiashan Coal Mine in northwest China&#39;s Shaanxi Province at 7:20 am on November 28, according to official sources.
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Hundreds of thousands of migrant workers desperate to get home for the Chinese New Year shivered in the cold under a sea of umbrellas outside train stations Tuesday, as the worst winter storms in half a century paralyzed China.