In response to the recent overcrowded school van accident that took the lives of 19 children and two adults in Gansu on November 16th, Premier Wen Jiabao has pledged to allocate central and local government funds to resolve China's bus safety issue within the space of one month. more ›

The AP is reporting that at least 17 preschoolers and two adults were killed this morning at approximately 9:40am, when their overcrowded minibus crashed with a truck in a township located in the city of Qingyang (庆阳) in Western China's Gansu province. more ›

On Monday afternoon, a 17 million RMB luxury boat named the SS Jiugang sank into the waters of the Yellow River near Lanzhou, Gansu Province seconds after being launched from its Christening. more ›

A 31-kilometer section of the new S207 highway in Gansu, an 8.7 billion RMB project ($1.36 billion USD), is already being repaired for cracks mere months after opening for service. The 235-kilometer Tianding Expressway (天定高速) runs from Tianshui (天水) to Dingxi (定西) in Gansu, and was completed on May 31st. more ›

Comrades, it's important to remember the struggles of our brothers and sisters who fought in the revolutionary wars of liberation that happened in the dark bygones of our collective 20th century saga. And what better way to do it than a Red Olympics with events like the Heroic Bunker Bombing Grenade Toss or the Red Soldier Pole Carry? more ›

"THREE children died from food poisoning yesterday in Pingliang, northwest Gansu Province and 35 others were hospitalized after they drank contaminated milk. Most of the 35 were children under 14 now being treated at two hospitals in Pingliang City, according to Xinhua, citing the local government and health bureau. Initial investigation showed their poisoning symptoms were caused by sodium nitrite in the milk, Xinhua reported today. The victims were admitted to the Pingliang No. 2 Hospital and the People's Hospital. They are in stable condition. Two dairy farms which supplied the contaminated milk have been closed down and police have placed their mangers under control. Investigation into the accident is going on." [Shanghai Daily] more ›

If a horrific, “unforeseen and natural” disaster happens in China these days, what is the actual betting that it was, in fact, both man-made and foreseeable? Well, unless it’s a direct hit with an asteroid, the answer is: quite high. more ›

Shanghai Volkswagen Co.'s general manager and three other people were killed in a car accident in Gansu over the weekend. Liu Jian, 45, died on July 17 after attending a company event to meet dealers and attend a test drive. However, more details - for instance, whether the accident happened during the test drive, or whether the three other victims were killed in the same accident - were not made available. more ›

Think those sandstorms we saw earlier this year were anything? Well now the biggest sandstorm in 17 years has enveloped Gansu province as well as some parts of the Xinjiang province. In several parts of Gansu, like Minqin County, visibility is now close to zero metres. At least three people are dead and one is missing. more ›

They did it last month, and they did it again this time. A second trip organised by Beijing for a closed group of journalists (from Reuters, ABC News, and France's Le Point, among others) to Xiahe, Gansu, has been disrupted by a group of between 15 and 30 young monks who burst out of a building at the L*br*ng Monastery, demanding for human rights, freedom and the Dalai Lama to return to Tibet. From The Guardian:

"The Dalai Lama has to come back to Tibet. We are not asking for Tibetan independence, we are just asking for human rights, we have no human rights now," one monk told the reporters in Chinese. more ›