Wednesday, December 15, 2004

News

The Price of Coal, Jan-Nov—5,286 Lives: From January to November, 3,413 mining accidents were reported in China, claiming 5,286 lives, a decrease of 253 incidents and 451 people from the first 11 months of last year.

Gansu UFO Believed to Be Meteorite: Hundreds of people in northwest China's Gansu Province saw a UFO on the night of December 11. Witnesses said that a strange shining object swept through the sky at 11:36 PM, followed by a loud blast that resembled bombs dropping. People within a 100-square-kilometer area around Lanzhou, the capital of Gansu, reported feeling the earth tremble.

Climate change threatens China food production: Climate change could cut China's food production 10 percent by 2050, said an official report at a major UN conference.

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