China insurers pay $165M for snow damage
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Chinese insurers have paid more than 1.2 billion yuan, or $165 million, for deaths and damage from snowstorms that killed at least 107 people, said officials quoted Wednesday by a state news agency.
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Bad weather in China  causes havoc for millions of people as the country battles the heaviest snowstorms in 50 years
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China issued a severe weather warning on Monday for large swathes of the country already reeling from transport havoc and power shortages caused by the heaviest snowfalls in decades.
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China has punished 198 people for criminal violations and another 196 for breaking political disciplines in response to last year's fatal coal mining accidents. There were 476 lives lost in Chinese coal mining accidents in 2006 alone.
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China's worst winter in more than half a century showed no signs of abating Wednesday as forecasters told citizens to brace for three more days of snow and sleet.
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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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The Transportation Safety Board of Canada is sending a team to China, where a Canadian-built commuter plane crashed in an ice-covered lake in northern China on Sunday.
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Northeast China's heaviest March snowstorm in 56 years has left five people dead and caused transport chaos and power failures, state media reported on Monday.
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Get INQ7 breaking news on your Smart mobile phone in the Philippines. Send INQ7 BREAKING to 386. MONTREAL, Canada -- Airplane builder Bombardier dispatched Sunday a team of investigators to China following
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Brutal winter weather that has battered China's central, eastern and southern sections prompted the China Meteorological Administration to issue a rare red alert Monday as the nation braced for more snow and bone-chilling temperatures.
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All the coal miners trapped after a gas  explosion in a shaft in northern China are dead, bringing the  toll to 166 in one of the worst disasters to hit the world's  most dangerous mining industry, state media said on Wednesday.
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Heavy snow leaves at least 16 people dead and causes transport chaos in central and eastern China.
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Russian insurance companies will begin paying compensations to Russian citizens who sustained injuries in the December 31 "Ecolines" bus crash on the Riga-Rezekne Highway in Latvia, as of January 11, because ...
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Text of report in English by official Chinese news agency Xinhua (New China News Agency)  [OSC Transcribed Text] ["China To Use 55 Billion Yuan To Settle Problems in Three Gorges Region" - Xinhua headline]  Beijing, Feb.
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Ping An Insurance (Group) Co. Ltd.   2318.HK, China's second-largest life insurer, plans to sell   up to 1.15 billion A-shares worth an estimated US$4 billion   (2.17 billion pounds) to replenish its capital.
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China's worst snow storms in decades will continue for at least three more days, a top forecaster says.
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American International Group, the world&#39;s largest insurance firm, yesterday agreed to pay $126m (Â£67m) to settle allegations that the company helped clients to commit accounting fraud.