China Labour Bulletin appears in the following article. Copyright remains with the original publisher.Officials impede China's fight to curb mine deathsBy Bi . . .
Thirteen miners who died in a coal mine accident in southwestern China were forced-labour prisoners, a German news agency and a human rights group reported.The 13 miners died and seven other . . .
Eighteen miners were killed in a coal mine gas leak accident in Ningwu county, Shanxi Province, according to Xinhua.The report said a collapse occurred in the ground within the mining area o . . .
Sixty-three people were killed and 26 others were trapped in three separate coal mine accidents on 15 July.The first accident was an explosion occurred at about 4pm on Saturday at the Lin . . .
An explosion at a state-run explosives factory in Anhui province on Saturday killed two workers and injured three others. Operations on the production line, where the explosion occurred, had been susp . . .
The number of miners killed at a coal mine explosion in Liaoning Province has increased to 27 after rescue work ended and rescuers recovered the bodies of five missing miners.The gas blast t . . .
Twenty-one miners have been killed after a gas explosion occurred at a coal mine in Fuxin City in Liaoning Province, northeast China.The number of injured miners rose to 36 and five others . . .
China's workers reported a total of 12,212 cases of occupational illness in 2005, according to a report jointly published by the Ministry of Health, the State Administration of Work Safety and the All . . .
A total of 16 people died after an explosion at a chemical plant in Anhui province, with another 24 workers being treated in hospital for injuries. The explosion occurred on 16 June razed a . . .