via: xinmin weekly (in chinese)
the recent issue of xinmin weekly has a special coverage on china's mine disasters. the feature includes articles of following topics:
- to cut off the collaborations between the local officials and mines is more difficult than thought
- a boss of a coal mine: from several thousand RMB per month to 30 million RMB in two years
- to advance official career with higher GDP growth is one of the reasons for local officials to collaborate with mines
- a case study of the official-mine collusion in loudi of hunan province
- the party chief of hunan loudi talks about official-mine collusion
- the last words of a dead mineworker shocked a young man and inspired him to make a "china mine disaster map"
the map indicates the location, death toll, cause of each disaster in 2005 and 2004.
update: 96 Missing in Latest China Mine Disaster 