Hope fading for China miners
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More than a day and a half after a deadly gas explosion ripped through a coal mine in northwest China, rescuers are losing hope of finding 141 people still trapped underground.
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Rescuers trying to reach 141 miners trapped by an underground explosion were pumping noxious fumes out of a Chinese coal mine Monday but an official said their chances of survival were &quot;extremely slight.
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CHINA&#39;S abysmal mine safety record reached a new low yesterday with news that more than 200 workers had been killed in a gas explosion deep underground.
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KHEWRA, Pakistan -- At Asia's oldest salt mine, the march of technology stopped generations ago. Bare-chested laborers use hand drills and gunpowder to blast away the pink and orange rock crystal, lucky if they earn a couple of dollars a day.
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China's growing material wealth has eluded the countryside, but there is a bull market in sects competing for the souls of the rural poor.
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The death toll from a coal mine disaster in China has risen to 64, and hopes are fading that any survivors will be found among another 84 workers who are missing.
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Although rescuers are hoping to be able to enter the mine today, officials believe there is very little hope of finding survivors.
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For nearly four weeks a mining community in central Utah held out hope that six men trapped in a coal mine cave-in would be found alive. That hope is gone now that federal mine officials have suspended the search for the men.
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The chances of rescuing at least 141 miners trapped inside a coal mine in China after a fierce gas explosion ripped through the underground facility Sunday are bleak, say authorities.
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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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In the first half of 2004, commodities investors worried that a hard landing for China's economy could be disastrous for them, but those fears have not borne out.
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The death toll in one of China&#39;s major coal mine disaster is set to rise to 204 with officials nearly giving up hope of finding the missing 148 miners alive in central China&#39;s Henan province.
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China's snow-stricken railways  were creaking back into action on Friday, but with power cuts  still crippling swathes of the country, President Hu Jintao  visited a coal mine and urged workers to boost production.
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BHP Billiton, the world&#39;s biggest mining company, said global growth and economic activity in China are slowing, partly as higher oil prices curb spending.
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Shares in China Coal rise on their Shanghai debut but disappoint investors used to bigger gains.
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China, home to the world's deadliest  mining industry, could be faced with a new wave of accidents as  collieries start operations again following severe winter  weather which forced many to close.
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Colliery accidents in China killed  5,286 miners in the first 11 months of the year, but the  government cast the figure in a positive light, saying it was  at an all-time low relative to production.