﻿<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Shanxi Province news stories on Newser</title><description>Read more Shanxi Province stories on Newser</description><link>http://www.newser.com/taggrid/3117/shanxi-province.html</link><image><url>http://img1-cdn.newser.com/images/newser-black250x40.gif</url><title>Shanxi Province news stories on Newser</title><link>http://www.newser.com/</link></image><copyright>2012 - Newser</copyright><language>en-us</language><generator>Newser Feed Generator</generator><pubDate>Fri, 25 May 2012 15:22:49 CDT</pubDate><item><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.newser.com/story/85169/114-miners-rescued-in-china.html</guid><title>114 Miners Rescued in China</title><dc:creator>Nick McMaster</dc:creator><description>&lt;img src='http://img1-cdn.newser.com/getimage.aspx?mediaid=340688&amp;width=45&amp;height=45&amp;crop=Y&amp;updateddate=20110331201437' border='0' /&gt;At least 114 miners trapped for a week in a flooded Chinese mine were saved today as relieved family members and friends cheered. Rescuers had all but given up hope when tapping sounds were heard from a survivor. Some 3,000 people have been working around the clock to pump...</description><media:content url="http://img1-cdn.newser.com/getimage.aspx?mediaid=340688&amp;width=45&amp;height=45&amp;crop=Y&amp;updateddate=20110331201437" type="image/jpg" medium="image"><media:description type="plain">A survivor is rescued from the flooded Wangjialing coal mine in China's Shanxi province today.</media:description></media:content><link>http://www.newser.com/story/85169/114-miners-rescued-in-china.html</link><pubDate>Mon, 05 Apr 2010 01:20:00 CDT</pubDate></item><item><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.newser.com/story/67162/chinese-storm-lead-plant-in-poison-protest.html</guid><title>Chinese Storm Lead Plant in Poison Protest</title><dc:creator>Mary Papenfuss</dc:creator><description>&lt;img src='http://img1-cdn.newser.com/getimage.aspx?mediaid=234650&amp;width=45&amp;height=45&amp;crop=Y&amp;updateddate=20110331215523' border='0' /&gt;Chinese furious about a lead smelting plant that has sickened some 600 children stormed the factory yesterday after a suicide attempt by teenager who feared she had been poisoned, reports the Wall Street Journal . Some 150 children have been hospitalized due to lead poisoning near the plant in northwest China's...</description><media:content url="http://img1-cdn.newser.com/getimage.aspx?mediaid=234650&amp;width=45&amp;height=45&amp;crop=Y&amp;updateddate=20110331215523" type="image/jpg" medium="image"><media:description type="plain">Protesters stormed the the Dongling Lead and Zinc Smelting Co. plant after close to 600 children were poisoned.</media:description></media:content><link>http://www.newser.com/story/67162/chinese-storm-lead-plant-in-poison-protest.html</link><pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2009 04:04:00 CDT</pubDate></item><item><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.newser.com/story/3164/child-slavery-scandal-blows-up-in-china.html</guid><title>Child Slavery Scandal Blows Up in China</title><dc:creator>Caroline Zimmerman</dc:creator><description>&lt;img src='http://img1-cdn.newser.com/getimage.aspx?mediaid=7900&amp;width=45&amp;height=45&amp;crop=Y&amp;updateddate=20110401034629' border='0' /&gt;A child labor scandal is rocking rural China as information surfaces on kidnapped children forced to work as slaves in the country's brick factories. In crackdowns this week, nearly 50,000 police in two Chinese provinces have rescued 550 people, including dozens of the thousands of children believed to be...</description><media:content url="http://img1-cdn.newser.com/getimage.aspx?mediaid=7900&amp;width=45&amp;height=45&amp;crop=Y&amp;updateddate=20110401034629" type="image/jpg" medium="image"><media:description type="plain">A girl works at a brick kiln at Liuwu Village in Yuncheng in China's Shanxi province Friday, June 15 2007. The girl is a paid worker, and not among slave workers who have been rescued in recent days. Authorities have freed another 80 slave laborers who were starved, beaten and forced to work 14 hours or more per day at brick kilns and small mines in central China, state media said Saturday. (AP Photo/Color China Photo)</media:description></media:content><link>http://www.newser.com/story/3164/child-slavery-scandal-blows-up-in-china.html</link><pubDate>Sat, 16 Jun 2007 11:39:09 CDT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>
