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BEIJING  - Rescue teams resigned themselves to pulling only corpses from a mine where 103 workers remained trapped after a gas blast, as Chinese media demanded investment to mechanize the industry and improve safety.
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A Chinese city in a region notorious for fatal coal mining accidents has rounded up 80 people claiming to be "reporters" who extorted money from officials and owners of illegal mines by threatening media exposure, state media said on Friday.
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Editors at The New York Times and Los Angeles Times showed similar judgment one day last week in running large, front-page pictures of tsunami victims. Faces of dead babies in makeshift morgues were clearly visible. They were the type of images you were hard-pressed to see during hours of television coverage.
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A Chinese city suburb has set a bounty on dead flies in a bid to promote public hygiene, Xinhua news agency said on Tuesday.
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Rescuers are scouring the sea for missing tourists and soldiers are racing to recover bodies amid fears of disease as Asia counts the cost of a tsunami that has
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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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NEW DELHI: With thousands of bodies rotting and infrastructure in tatters, authorities and medical relief workers fear an epidemic and severe shortage of food supplies along south Indian coastline and in Andaman and Nicobar islands.
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Chinese authorities are battling to clean up after one of the worst oil spills in the region's waters.
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The photographs on the bulletin boards outside the Yan Yao Buddhist temple make for a gruesome display. Hundreds and hundreds of bloated, disfigured and decomposed corpses stare out blankly.
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I was personally disturbed by the picture of the officer with the dead body next to him. I understand that this is a significantly tragic event for our community and that the newspaper's readers want as much information as possible.
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Foreign forensic experts have joined the desperate race to identify Thailand&#39;s tsunami victims as the death toll and the number of missing mount and people give up hope of finding loved ones alive.
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As nameless bodies are bulldozed into mass graves, the lack of physical remains is intensifying the grief for families still wondering about missing loved ones.
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Investigators in China are searching for clues as to the cause of a plane crash that killed 54 people, but after more than 24 hours of efforts they have still not located the crucial black box.
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Negotiations are under way for the release of two Chinese kidnapped in Pakistan and threatened with death, Pakistani and Chinese media said Monday.
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Efforts have been intensified in the search for the 36 people still missing following a Yellow River boating accident on Thursday morning in Linyi County of north China&#39;s
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The death toll from a mine blast in central China has risen to 78, with rescuers holding out little hope for 71 people still missing, state media said on Saturday.
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Nations on the Indian Ocean from Indonesia to Sri Lanka searched amongst the wreckage of a devastating Tsunami for bodies to bury today as fears grew the toll would exceed the 29,000 now reported killed.