21 Feb 2013

The daughter of a senior official in a Shanxi city in charge of legal affairs was killed in an explosion at home reportedly caused by a gas leak, but rumours online call it a bomb attack. 

5:51PM
10 Jan 2013

Twenty-one people were injured, one critically, after a fire sparked by a gas explosion tore through a crowded restaurant at lunch hour yesterday. More than 200 others were evacuated.

10:40AM
7 Dec 2012

Debris is strewn around the closed Shangchang coal mine in Fuyuan, in the southwest Yunnan province, following an explosion on December 4. The gas blast left 17 people dead, state press said, in...

4:36AM
3 Dec 2012

A former chemistry major aged 27 appeared in court on Saturday, charged with making amphetamines at his home in August, Beijing Times reports. 

6:50AM
23 Nov 2012

A woman in her early 30s is suing a psychiatric hospital in Beijing for keeping her against her will for three days in June at the request of her parents.

3:13AM
12 Sep 2012

BEIJING

Toilets subject to nose test

3:45AM

Three people were hurt by a gas blast in the street outside an estate agency in the Wai Cheung Industrial Centre in Shek Pai Tau Road, Tuen Mun, at about 5pm yesterday. Police said the explosion...

4:54AM

A KMB bus was damaged yesterday when a gas explosion launched a metal drain cover into the air, hitting the vehicle. The bus was hit at the junction of Ngau Tau Kok Road and Horse Shoe Lane in...

7:45PM

Two fireman suffered slight burns to their faces in a fire that triggered gas explosions at a 25-year-old Kwun Yam temple in Wong Tai Sin yesterday. A government spokesman said visitors to the...

3:13PM

A workman suffered severe burns to his head, shoulders and chest in a gas explosion at a public housing flat in Tsuen Wan yesterday.


A six-year-old boy and a domestic helper escaped...

2:26PM

Hole in sewer could have carried gas under building, investigators say


Government investigators have said a rare combination of factors was to blame for the Ngau Tau Kok gas explosion...

6:00PM

Probe to focus on how it travelled 30m to pool under building


Government investigators and Towngas remain no nearer to finding the reasons for Tuesday's Ngau Tau Kok gas explosion,...

2:29PM

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