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Rain-triggered landslide kills 3 in China's Shaanxi province
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Beijing [China], October 7 (ANI): Three people have been killed in a landslide triggered by continuous downpours in northwest China's Shaanxi province, local media reported citing authorities on Thursday.
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Human rights activists call on China to release Uyghur scholar
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Beijing [China], September 26 (ANI): Human rights activists on Thursday called on China to release Uyghur scholar, who has been sentenced seven years ago to life in prison for "separatism," for raising voice against discrimination against Uyghurs in northwest China's Xinjiang region, accordi
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Over 1.51 million people affected in 27 counties due to drought in China
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
Beijing [China], September 7 (ANI): Over 27 counties and districts in Gansu, northwest China have been facing drought due to sustained hot weather and low precipitation since July.
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5.0 magnitude quake hits Xinjiang
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
Xinjiang [China], September 5 (ANI/Xinhua): A 5.0-magnitude earthquake jolted Yecheng County of Kashgar Prefecture in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region at 1:52 a.m. Sunday, according to the China Earthquake Networks Center (CENC).
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5.1-magnitude earthquake hits Xinjiang
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
Xinjiang [China], September 4 (ANI/Xinhua): A 5.1-magnitude earthquake jolted Pishan County in northwest China's Xinjiang, on Saturday, according to the China Earthquake Networks Center (CENC).
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5.8-magnitude quake hits China's Qinghai province
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
Beijing [China], August 13 (ANI/Xinhua): A 5.8-magnitude earthquake jolted Maduo County of Golog Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in Qinghai Province, northwest China at 12:21 p.m. Friday, according to the China Earthquake Networks Center (CENC).
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Over 300 detained in telecom, internet fraud in China
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
Lanzhou [China], July 4 (ANI/Xinhua): Police have detained more than 300 suspects in connection to a huge telecommunications and internet fraud case in northwest China's Gansu Province.
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Former Chinese policeman reveals chilling account of Uyghurs in China's Xi
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
London [UK], June 8 (ANI): After a four-day hearing at a London-based tribunal on the treatment of Uyghurs, chilling testimony regarding torture of the Muslim minority has been revealed by a witness depicting blatant humans rights violation taking place in northwest China's Xinjiang province
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21 trapped in coal mine in Xinjiang
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
Xinjiang [China], April 11 (ANI): Over 20 workers are trapped in a coal mine in northwest China's Xinjiang region after flooding cut power under underground and disrupted communications, Chinese-state media Xinhua reported.
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3 die in quake in China's Xinjiang: Report
Updated : 5 years, 4 months ago IST
Xinjiang [China], March 24 (ANI): At least three people have died in a 5.4-magnitude earthquake that jolted Aksu Prefecture in northwest China's Xinjiang on early Wednesday morning.
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4 dead, 4 missing in coal mine accident in China
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
Xian [China], November 05 (ANI/Xinhua): A suspected gas outburst in a coal mine in northwest China's Shaanxi Province on Wednesday left four dead while the search is on for four others who are believed to be missing.
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China's launch of new satellite fails
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
Beijing [China], September 12 (ANI/Xinhua): Optical remote-sensing satellite Jilin-1 Gaofen 02C, which was launched aboard the Kuaizhou-1A carrier rocket from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China at 13:02 p.m. (Beijing time) on Saturday, failed to enter the preset orbit.
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