Yahoo! News: World - China

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• Slick seeping into Yellow Sea after oil facility blast (AFP)
• Wen says China growth in line with expectations (AFP)
• 13 miners trapped in flooded shaft in China (AP)
• Cleanup begins after oil pipe explosion in China (AP)
• Thirty killed in 3 mine accidents in China (Reuters)
• China's Wen: "relatively fast" growth needed (Reuters)
• At least 27 missing after China bus accident (AFP)
• Bus falls into river in SW China, 27 feared dead (AP)
• Ford breaks ground on $300 million China plant (Reuters)
• China's CNPC seeks to contain oil spill after pipe blast (Reuters)
• China mine owner held as 28 die in colliery fire (AFP)

Slick seeping into Yellow Sea after oil facility blast (AFP) Posted: 18 Jul 2010 03:59 PM PDT AFP - Workers were scrambling to contain a huge oil slick from seeping further into the Yellow Sea on Sunday after an explosion at a northeast China oil storage port, state media said.

Wen says China growth in line with expectations (AFP) Posted: 18 Jul 2010 01:41 PM PDT AFP - Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao said Sunday that a slowdown in second quarter growth to 10.3 percent was in line with expectations, but warned of economic difficulties ahead.

13 miners trapped in flooded shaft in China (AP) Posted: 18 Jul 2010 01:28 PM PDT AP - Rescue operations were under way for 13 miners trapped underground in a flooded coal shaft in northwestern China on Sunday — a reminder of the dangers of an industry that claimed the lives of 36 others a day earlier.

Cleanup begins after oil pipe explosion in China (AP) Posted: 18 Jul 2010 10:11 AM PDT AP - Efforts were under way to contain and clean up a large oil slick after pipeline explosions at a northeastern Chinese port sent greasy black plumes into the ocean, state media reported Sunday.

Thirty killed in 3 mine accidents in China (Reuters) Posted: 18 Jul 2010 04:34 AM PDT Reuters - BEIJING (Reuters)- At least 30 miners were killed and 13 more remained trapped in three separate coal mine accidents in China during the weekend, state media reported, highlighting the country's struggle to improve its mine safety record.

China's Wen: "relatively fast" growth needed (Reuters) Posted: 18 Jul 2010 03:49 AM PDT Reuters - Premier Wen Jiabao said China's economy was responding appropriately to its stable policies, adding "relatively fast" growth would help create jobs and boost domestic demand, the Xinhua news agency reported on Sunday.

At least 27 missing after China bus accident (AFP) Posted: 18 Jul 2010 03:31 AM PDT AFP - At least 27 people were missing feared dead Sunday when a passenger bus fell off a mountainous road and into a river in southwest China, a local official and state media said.

Bus falls into river in SW China, 27 feared dead (AP) Posted: 18 Jul 2010 12:28 AM PDT AP - A bus plunged into a river in southwestern China early Sunday, leaving 27 people on board missing and feared dead, state media reported. Rescuers were able to save 11 others.

Ford breaks ground on $300 million China plant (Reuters) Posted: 18 Jul 2010 12:01 AM PDT Reuters - Ford Motor and its partly-owned Jiangling Motors Corp (000550.SZ) broke ground on Sunday on a $300 million vehicle plant in central China as the partners speed expansion in the world's largest auto market.

China's CNPC seeks to contain oil spill after pipe blast (Reuters) Posted: 17 Jul 2010 11:58 PM PDT Reuters - China's largest oil company, China National Petroleum Corp (CNPC), sought to contain ocean pollution and other impacts from an explosion of two crude oil pipelines in the northeastern port of Dalian, state media reported on Sunday.

China mine owner held as 28 die in colliery fire (AFP) Posted: 17 Jul 2010 11:51 PM PDT AFP - Police detained a northwestern China mine owner Sunday after 28 workers died in his colliery following a pit fire, the latest in a series of deadly mining accidents, state press said.

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