Employees Sentenced Over Gas Leak in China
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Six gas company employees were sentenced to prison from three to six years Saturday over a gas well leak that killed 243 people in southwestern China, one of the country's worst-ever industrial accidents.
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Four men were sentenced to termed imprisonment Thursday in Beijing for creating and profiting from pornographic websites. Liang Hongbin, Li Yufei, Yu Jianhong, and Chen Dong&#39;s pornographic
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Water supplies to 200,000 people in eastern China were cut for 40 hours due to groundwater pollution, allegedly from chemical plants, state media reported Wednesday.
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Toxic leak victims rise to 126 in central China    WUHAN, Feb. 2 (Xinhua) -- Another 25 people have been hospitalized after toxic chemicals leaked from a tanker, bringing the total number of victims to 126, officials with the Xiaogan government said Friday.
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About 123 miners escaped a major Sunday gas explosion at a mine in China, but more than 170 were reported trapped underground. The state-owned Chenjiashan Coalmine, under the
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BEIJING -- The outrage started with the discovery that more than 500 migrant laborers had been forced to work in conditions bordering on slavery in out-of-the-way brick kilns. Local Communist Party authorities, state-run media said, had looked the other way.
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Chinese regulators acknowledged for the first time that two Chinese companies had âengaged in some misconductâ in the way they labeled and sold a poisonous ingredient.
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WALKERTON, Ont. (CP) - The former manager of Walkerton's utilities commission was jailed for one year Monday for his role in the 2000 tainted-water tragedy, while his foreman brother was sentenced to nine months of house arrest.
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SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 14  â Two of three former Enron traders accused of driving up energy prices during Californiaâs power crisis in 2000 and 2001 were each sentenced on Wednesday in federal court to two years of court-supervised release.
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TACOMA, Wash. - A chlorine leak at a waterfront chemical plant injured 12 people who inhaled fumes, and prompted authorities to evacuate the area overnight.  Workers were filling a 1,000-gallon tank with the chemical at Pioneer Americas Inc.
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Seven people - including a mine owner - are jailed for the fatal beating of a journalist at a coal mine in China.
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A gas explosion today in a coal mine in central China has left 187 miners trapped, the government said. The accident occurred at 7:20am (11.20pm Irish time Saturday) in the state-owned Chenjiashan coal mine
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The sentences have been handed out after two brothers pleaded guilty in the Walkerton water disaster. It&#39;s one year in jail for Stan Koebel and nine months house arrest for his brother Frank.
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BEIJING Nov 28, 2004 - A gas explosion tore through a central Chinese coal mine on Sunday, trapping at least 188 miners and sending smoke billowing out the mine&#39;s air vents, the government said.
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Text of report in English by official Chinese news agency Xinhua (New China News Agency)  Hefei, 24 September: A Chinese local court has sentenced a former county party chief from the eastern province of Anhui to life imprisonment for taking bribes.
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A freeway operator in northeast China has been ordered to pay the equivalent of $150,000 in compensation to six people injured in an accident caused by -- a pig.
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A Chinese court has jailed two officials after they let a blind contractor build a bridge which collapsed during construction and injured 12 people, the official Xinhua news agency said on Monday.