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Ten people are killed and six others are missing after an accident at a coal mine in Pingdingshan, Henan, China.
2024-01-12

Sixteen people are killed by a fire at a coal mine in Panzhou, Guizhou, China.
2023-09-24

A carbon monoxide leak kills at least 18 miners at a coal mine in Yongchuan District, Chongqing, China. A search and rescue effort is underway to find six other missing miners.
2020-12-5

United States Secretary of Health and Human Services Alex Azar travels to Taiwan for a multi-day official visit. He is the highest-ranking U.S. official to visit the country in 40 years after the U.S. stopped recognising Taiwan in 1979 and has had unofficial ties since then. The PRC, which claims Taiwan as a breakaway province, condemns the visit.
2020-08-5

Japan launches a ¥70 billion payment scheme to pay firms to move factories out of China to either Japan itself or countries within the Southeast Asian region in an attempt to better secure its supply chains. 57 firms, including face mask manufacturer Iris Ohyama, are among the first to receive the subsidy.
2020-07-18

16 miners are trapped underground after a coal mine was flooded in northeast China's Heilongjiang province.
2012-12-2

A coal mine accident in Guizhou province, China's southwest, kills eighteen workers and traps five more.
2012-11-24

Torrential rainfall and flooding in China's Hunan Province destroys a bridge and 3,500 homes, leading to the evacuation of 28,000 people in Pingjiang County.
2012-05-13

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency revokes a permit for a proposed coal mine in West Virginia which would have been one of America's largest citing "destructive and unsustainable mining practices that jeopardize the health of Appalachian communities and clean water".
2011-01-13

Twenty-eight coal miners die after a fire in their mine near Hancheng City in China's Shaanxi Province.
2010-07-17