The landslide blocked a 2km (1.2-mile) stretch of a river, China’s Xinhua state news agency said. Local police said a lack of vegetation had made the landslide worse. Local officials said some 8m cubic metres…
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China landslide rescuers find bodies, search for dozens of missing people
China June 25, 2017. As heavy machines removed debris and men scoured the rubble for survivors on Sunday, relatives from nearby villages sobbed as they awaited news of their loved ones. “It was as if…
GSMA Mobile IoT Initiative Takes off with Multiple Commercial Network Launches around the World
China Mobile and China Unicom have launched NB-IoT across several key cities with China Telecom launching NB-IoT networks across the country. Vodafone has also launched NB-IoT in Spain and the Netherlands. DT has launched in…
China sentences 16 from Australia’s Crown Resorts to prison
Casino gambling, the marketing of casinos and organizing overseas gambling trips involving 10 or more people are illegal in China. Eleven defendants were sentenced to nine months’ imprisonment and five defendants to 10 months, Crown…
China sentences 3 Australian Crown Resorts staff to prison
Casino gambling, the marketing of casinos and organizing overseas gambling trips involving 10 or more people are illegal in China. “The three Australians and the other defendants pleaded guilty,” the Australian Consul General in Shanghai,…
China Unicom to boost capital spending on back of fundraising by parent, says analyst
China Unicom, the world’s sixth-largest mobile network operator by subscribers, looks poised to aggressively raise capital spending this year amid mounting speculation that its parent will soon have well-heeled Alibaba Group Holding and Tencent Holdings…
China landslide: More than 100 missing as search continues
But geological experts at the site on Sunday said that the chance of finding survivors was becoming “really slim”, China’s Xinhua news agency reports. The landslide blocked a 2km (1.2-mile) stretch of a river, the…
10 confirmed dead after landslide buries scores in China
Crews searching through the rubble left by a landslide that buried a mountain village under tonnes of soil and rocks in southwestern China on Saturday found 10 bodies, but about 100 more people remained missing.…
Ten bodies found, scores missing in massive China landslide
MAO COUNTY, China — Rescuers recovered 10 bodies and were still searching … relatives from nearby villages sobbed as they awaited news of their loved ones. “It was as if strong winds were blowing by,…
China landslide: 15 bodies recovered, 118 reported missing
Beijing (CNN)At least 15 bodies have been recovered from the rubble of a landslide in southwestern China, state news outlets reported Sunday, citing emergency officials. CCTV also said 118 people were missing in the disaster,…
Hopes fade in China for 93 missing in landslide
MAO COUNTY, China Rescue workers in southwestern China pulled bodies … contradicting a report by the Xinhua state news agency on Saturday saying that 15 people had been confirmed killed. On Sunday industrial excavators removed…
No free trade with China under a Conservative government, says Andrew Scheer
Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer would sooner uphold the Liberal government’s environmental regulations than a free trade deal with China, he said in an interview, just as the Trudeau government prepares for its second round of…
Hopes fade in China as more landslide victims found with 93 missing
For graphic on landslide in China click: http://tmsnrt.rs/2t4A3FU Geological experts said that chances of survival for the missing were slim, state-owned Xinhua news agency reported. “We weren’t able to pull anyone out alive,” Wu Youheng…
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