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Melbourne, FL 32935 Last Updated: 10/03/08 08:46:36 EDT. C) Relative Humidity: 75% Barometer: 29. (Florida Today)
China Mine Explosion Reportedly Kills 23 Sep 5, 2008
The official Xinhua News Agency said the morning accident occurred in a coal mine in Fuxin, a city in Liaoning province ... A spokesman at the Fuxin safety bureau confirmed that the explosion occurred early Thursday but would not provide further details. (CBS News -- World)
China coal mine blast kills at least 27 Sep 4, 2008
The gas blast occurred at a mine in the city of Fuxin in Liaoning province, one of China's main coal-producing areas, an official surnamed Li at the Fuxin local work safety bureau told AFP.. The official Xinhua news agency said 27 people had been confirmed killed as rescuers found the bodies of the last three missing miners, and six others were injured. (Sydney Morning Herald -- World)
* Beijing gags bereaved parents of lost Sichuan children Aug 30, 2008
She was speaking less than a fortnight after her son had been crushed in the total collapse of Fuxin No. 2 Elementary in Mianzhu, Sichuan ... When I came across Fuxin, I had been in Sichuan, covering the earthquakes aftermath, for almost two weeks; it was the sixth ruined school I had found ... Fuxin was another of those, and the contrast between the surrounding structures and the rubble of the classrooms had roused parents fury. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
Wonder Auto Technology Reports Record Quarterly Sales and Net Income Aug 7, 2008
0001 per share; authorized 90,000,000 shares, issued and outstanding 26,959,994 shares in 2008 and 2007 2,696 2,696 Additional paid-in capital 44,870,304 44,870,304 Statutory and other reserves 4,857,660 4,857,660 Accumulated other comprehensive income 8,113,540 4,422,032 Retained earnings 33,541,384 24,289,701 TOTAL STOCKHOLDERS' EQUITY 91,385,584 78,442,393 TOTAL LIABILITIES AND STOCKHOLDERS' EQUITY $177,857,821 $142,396,735 Wonder Auto Technology, Inc. Condensed Consolidated Statements of... (PR Newswire)
Weather: Partly cloudy, afternoon storms likely Jul 30, 2008
Melbourne, FL 32940 Last Updated: 07/30/08 08:45:41 EDT. C) Relative Humidity: 97% Barometer: 30. (Florida Today)
II-VI Incorporated Increases Investment in Fuxin Electronics Jul 29, 2008
PITTSBURGH, July 28 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- II-VI Incorporated (Nasdaq: ) today announced that it has completed an additional investment in Guangdong Fuxin Electronic Technology Company (Fuxin), based in Guangdong Province, China. II-VI and Fuxin entered into a partnership agreement and II-VI made its initial investment in Fuxin in March 2007 ... II-VI will remain a minority investor in Fuxin with this investment. (PR Newswire)
China shushes parents protesting quake Jul 13, 2008
Wufu became a hotbed of quake protests after the town's Fuxin No. 2 Primary School caved in, killing 127 students. advertisement. (MSNBC -- International)
Parents of quake victims accuse government of stalling Jun 21, 2008
"They said they would give us answers on June 20," said Huang Zaojun, one of about 150 parents gathered at the ruins of Fuxin No.2 Primary School in the town of Wufu, about 75 kilometers, or 45 miles, north of the provincial capital of Chengdu. Huang's 11-year-old son was one of 270 students who died in the collapse of the school's three-story classroom building. (International Herald Tribune)
* Chinas post-quake nationalism Jun 12, 2008
In Fuxin scavengers with bolt cutters, sledgehammers and blowtorches are picking through the rubble for pieces of iron and steel to take away for recycling ... Amid the rubble of the Fuxin Number Two Elementary School, Zhang Yunlong complains bitterly about the poor construction that he blames for the death of his 10-year-old daughter. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
Chinese leaders shift focus Jun 7, 2008
Angry parents in the Mianzhu district of Dujiangyan - where 127 students were killed on the collapse of Fuxin School Primary School - became so agitated that local CCP secretary Jiang Guohua fell to his knees and begged them not to take the case to the provincial government. To this day, however, neither the Sichuan government nor the Education Ministry has given the exact number of teachers and students killed in the quake. (Asia Times Online)
China quake parents "scolded" for seeking justice Jun 5, 2008
In the town of Wufu, where the Fuxin Number Two primary school is the only building that collapsed in the quake, killing hundreds of children, parents says the local government has promised them the results of an investigation by June 20. "What do we have to be afraid of? We've lost everything," said a woman surnamed Zheng, whose 10-year-old daughter was killed at the school. (Reuters)
China forced to wait days for draining of quake lake Jun 3, 2008
Nearly every building withstood the earthquake -- except the three-storey Fuxin Number Two Primary School which collapsed, killing 129 children. "We come here every day," said a woman named Zhang, whose 10-year-old daughter died under the rubble. (Yahoo News -- Top Stories)
After China's quake, disarray for kids Jun 2, 2008
In Wufu, where 129 children died at Fuxin No. 2 elementary school, the local government has promised an investigation into whether the school was shoddily built. Nobody, however, has yet come to the village to offer help to the 180 or so children who survived and who are now living with their grief. (Christian Science Monitor)
Quake policies meant to comfort concerns of bereaved parents Jun 1, 2008
Her daughter was among 127 dead in the Fuxin No. 2 Primary School in Mianzhu City. The building was leveled within 10 seconds. (Xinhuanet, China)
Official in quake province gives up torch in protest May 31, 2008
Faced with mounting parent anger over their children's deaths, a government-organized team of building engineers has begun inspections of at least one of the devastated schools, Fuxin No. 2 primary school in Mianzhu. Investigators there took photos of the ruins and samples of the tons of concrete and bricks that crushed to death 127 students, according to a parent who is monitoring the situation. (San Francisco Chronicle)
China official withdraws from Olympic torch relay May 30, 2008
At Fuxin No. 2 Primary School in Mianzhu City, investigators took photos of the ruins and samples of the tons of concrete and bricks that crushed 127 students, according to a parent monitoring the situation. Meanwhile, recovery efforts in Beichuan County, one of the hardest hit in the May 12 quake, faced new hardships. (Boston Globe)
Quake shakes China's one-child policy May 30, 2008
Cradling the framed portraits of their dead children from Fuxin No 2 primary school in Mianzhu city, grieving parents have been holding vigils and prayers among the debris of the former school. They have been besieging local leaders with questions about the shoddy quality of school buildings and demanding justice for their dead children. (Asia Times Online)
Parents' grief turns to rage at Chinese officials May 28, 2008
Hundreds of parents whose children died at the Fuxin No. 2 Primary School in the city of Mianzhu staged an impromptu rally on Saturday ... In their confrontation with Communist Party officials on Saturday, the parents encircled the vice secretary of the Mianzhu city government and called her a liar for her report on the destruction of the Fuxin school that failed to mention that 127 students had been killed. (International Herald Tribune)
"One-Child" Rule Eased For Quake Victims May 27, 2008
Relatives grieve over the photo of a child killed in an earthquake at the Fuxin No.2 Primary School in Wufu, in China's southwest Sichuan province, May 23, 2008. Parents of the 200 children who died when the school collapsed in an earthquake on May 12 are demanding an investigation into alleged shoddy construction. (CBS News)
China's quake-ravaged areas face other perils May 23, 2008
Mothers grieved yesterday for their children, who died in the earthquake along with 127 other students at Fuxin Primary School in the Sichuan Province of China. (Paula Bronstein/Getty Images) |Print|| Text size + By Barbara Demick Los Angeles Times / May 23, 2008. (Boston Globe)
80,000 Dead, Missing in China Quake May 23, 2008
Pictures posted online of Wufu town, where some 200 students died when the Fuxin No. 0000217F 2 Primary School collapsed, showed roads lined with wreaths. Piles of dusty school bags were among the rubble. (Fox News)
CHINA GEARING UP HUGE RESCUE EFFORT May 16, 2008
(05-15) 04:00 PDT Fuxin, China ... The people of Fuxin said they lost 300 of their children when the Fuxin No. 2 Primary School pancaked right after the tremor ... Fuxin is a farm town on the edge of Mianzhu, a city 40 miles north of Chengdu, the provincial capital of Sichuan. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Suzhou Creek brings to life its history, cultural legacy May 8, 2008
Fuxin Flour Factory: one of the symbols of China's national industry and also marked the beginning of the Rong family business. It was founded by the two brothers Rong Zongjing and Rong Desheng. (Xinhuanet, China)
FEATURE - Dying China Oil Town A Warning To Beijing Apr 18, 2008
They range from coal producing Fuxin in the northeast, where mine closures cost 100,000 jobs in 2001 alone, to the copper, lead and zinc producing city of Baiyin in Gansu. OLD YUMEN, NEW YUMEN. (Planet Ark, United States)
Many of China's 'resource' towns are dying Apr 17, 2008
They range from Fuxin, in the northeast, to Baiyin, which is in Gansu. But Beijing's concern has not translated into improvements in Yumen. (International Herald Tribune -- Business)
Huaneng To Build China's Largest Wind Farm - Paper Mar 31, 2008
The project, with a total of 200 turbines to be erected in a 100-square-kilometre area in Fuxin city of northeast Liaoning province, is slated to start generating power before end of the year, China Economic Herald reported on Saturday. The wind farm will help cut carbon dioxide emission by 750,000 tonnes and sulphur dioxide by 4,000 tonnes a year, the paper cited the provincial environmental authority. (Planet Ark, United States)
Hour-by-hour forecast Jan 3, 2008
Melbourne, FL 32935 Last Updated: 01/03/08 07:15:48 EDT. C) Relative Humidity: 55% Visability: 10 miles (16 km). (Florida Today)
Minefield for China coal workers Dec 26, 2007
Tony Birtley in Fuxin, northeastern China ... Two things dominate the skyline above Fuxin in northeastern China: the giant cooling towers of the power station in the middle of town and in the distance, a man-made pyramid called Gan, an enormous pile of slag, residue from the hunt for coal ... If Greenpeace activists could see the Fuxin power station their blood would boil. (Aljazeera.Net)
"Plan of Revitalizing Northeast China" released Dec 19, 2007
Railway construction: to construct Harbin-Dalian passenger line, Changchun-Jilin inter-city rail transit, Yimin-Yirshi railway, Chifeng-Daban-Baiyinhua railway, Wulanhot-Huolinhe-Xilinhot railway, Fuxin-West Ujimqin league railway, railway corridor in the eastern part of the Northeast, and container load centers in Harbin, Shenyang and Dalian; to transform Hailar-Manzhouli, Baicheng-Arshan, Huolinhe-Tongliao, Jinzhou-Qiqihar, Jinzhou-Chengde, Shenyang-Jilin, Shenyang-Dandong, Yebaishou-Chifeng,... (Xinhuanet, China)
Complete weather forecast Dec 7, 2007
Jackson, MS 39201 Last Updated: 12/07/07 07:45:24 EDT. C) Relative Humidity: 74% Barometer: 30. (The Clarion-Ledger)
The Energy Solution: Do Something Oct 23, 2007
" The key term is "leapfrog" or as Davis said later, "super leapfrog. " Desperate to keep juice flowing to their rapidly growing economies in India especially, blackouts remain a fact of life the big developing nations are adding electrical capacity fast, cheap and dirty. China alone is building a coal plant a week for the next five years, locking in vast levels of carbon dioxide emissions. It would be a big step just to get these economies to the same efficiency and relative cleanliness of... (Time.com)
* World News Quick Take Sep 6, 2007
In June, the Fuxin authorities and the Zhaodaban village committee offered 500 yuan (US$66) per year per unit of land for an indefinite period. "When a majority of the villagers rejected the offer, the township government reportedly sent out unidentified individuals to threaten and harass them," the group said. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- Business)
WEATHER: Thunderstorms possible Aug 28, 2007
Weather - 7-day Forecast Summaries. Melbourne, FL 32935 Last Updated: 08/28/07 09:30:35 EDT. (Florida Today)
4 dead, 10 injured in coal mine fire in northeast China Jun 25, 2007
The fire broke out at about 2 p.m. on Sunday in the shaft of Xinglong Coal Mine located at the Taiping District of Fuxin City, a government spokesperson said, without specifying the number of miners who were working underground. The injured people are now being treated at three local hospitals and are in stable condition, the spokesperson said. (Xinhuanet, China)
U.S. labor leaders denounce corporations for opposing China's labor law May 18, 2007
Hoffa said the group also planned to raise with Chinese officials the cases of imprisoned Chinese independent labor leaders, including Yao Fuxin, who was sentenced to seven years in prison for leading massive 2002 labor protests. Today in Asia - Pacific. (International Herald Tribune -- Sports)
