A fireworks technician died yesterday in an explosion in Century Park, Pudong — and he wasn't even lighting any fireworks. 26 year old Pu Jiliang from Henan province died on the spot at around 12.30pm when he was loading onto a truck near the gate of the park. Fireworks displays by Russian, Japanese, German and Chinese artists had been scheduled at Century Park for Sept. 30, Oct. 3 and Oct.6 as part of the National......

We were out and about in the rain all of yesterday and had no idea a "mega thunderstorm" was brewing out there in another part of town and people were getting killed in it. According to Xinhua, this was a "once-in-a-century thunderstorm":A migrant worker was crushed to death and 14 were injured after a thunderstorm hit part of Shanghai on Saturday afternoon, municipal flood authorities said. The storm hit the eastern Chinese city's Pudong and......

Shanghai Tourism Festival opens [CRI] "More than 400,000 people cheered the opening ceremony of the 19th Shanghai Tourism Festival, despite rain spells courtesy of typhoon Sinlaku."Bus accident kills one, injures several in Shanghai [Xinhua] "One driver died and several passengers were injured after a bus hit a highway viaduct pier Saturday morning in Shanghai, local police said. "51 killed after bus plunges into valley in SW China [Xinhua] "A bus plunged into a valley in......

A bus overturned on a remote mountain road leading to Artux city in Xinjiang province, killing 17 people on the spot while another eight eventually succumbed to their injuries at the hospital. Most of the victims were Han Chinese high school students and some were from the Kirgiz ethnic minority. The cause of the accident is still under investigation but authorities do not suspect any foul play or terrorism involved. [Source]......

36 coal miners are still trapped after a mine flooded at about 3.30pm yesterday at the Nadu Mine in the Guangxi region. Rescuers have since saved 13 people after 10 hours and 12 of the 36 still trapped are in contact with rescuers and are in safe places within the mine. These miners are reported to be about 2km from the mouth of the mine and rescuers are struggling to get water and food to......

The ground has been broken for the new Hongqiao Transport Hub which will cover an area of 240,000 square meters and contain facilities for both high-speed and normal trains. In service before the 2010 World Expo, the hub is expected to reach an annual turnover of 52.72 million people by 2020. Meanwhile, new security measures at the Shanghai South Railway Station mean that only travelling passengers will be allowed onto the platform and family and......

Fasten your seat belts, this is not a test. Guangzhou Daily brings us this news today that on July 4th, Shanghai Airlines flight FM9105 encountered serious turbulence leaving twenty passengers injured on their flight from Shanghai to Beijing. According to one of the passengers, a Mr. Ma, the plane took off from Shanghai at 3:30 pm and was set to arrive in Beijing at 5:45 pm. "At around 5:20 pm, the plane suddenly lurched," reported......

Three people were killed and another two injured when two 600 tonne gantry cranes collapsed in a shipbuilding site in Pudong shortly after midnight last Friday.Australia has named a new consul-general for Shanghai, Mr Tom Connor, who will succeed outgoing Ms [Susan] Dietz- Henderson in July.Sharon Stone, who served on the jury of the 2007 Shanghai International Film Festival, has been banned for life from the SIFF, along with all her movies.Xinhua News Agency has......

The world's longest sea-bridge from Shanghai to Ningbo opened on schedule (May 1st), cutting travel time to the port city from 4 hours to 150 minutes. However not everything is going according to plan. Photo by NZJY Reuters reports that the view from the 36km behemoth is so arresting that drivers have been stopping their cars to take a look, causing regular accidents and over 300 arrests. Since it will be another two years (two......

Various reports on yesterday's bus explosion in Yangpu District have attributed the cause of the fire to flammable material that one passenger brought onto the bus, but Hong Kong's Apple Daily《苹果日报》has suggested a "suicide-style bombing" (自杀式炸巴士) by Xinjiang terrorist groups. Here's part of the report, as translated by ESWN:... Even more frightening to the citizens than the casualties at the scene is the vague reporting by the media. The description covered 'self-ignition,' 'ignited explosion (that......

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This just in, from Xinhua: At least three people were killed in a bus explosion in Shanghai at about 9:00 a.m. Monday, according to fire fighters who rushed to the scene. The cause of the explosion is not yet known. Fire fighters estimated that there were about 50 passengers on board the No. 842 Bus, which suddenly exploded en route between the Guoxing Road and Shunguo Road in Yangpu District, to the northeast of Shanghai.......

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China's worst train crash in a decade happened yesterday somewhere between Qingdao and Beijing and killed at least 70 people. Fatalities did not include any foreigners, although a group of four French nationals travelling together were among the hundreds left injured. Terrorism was ruled out as a cause of the train collision and two railway officials (unnamed) have been sacked following the accident.Police in Guangdong province have busted a factory there for making Free Tibet......