Wenzhou

China's worst rail disaster fading from memory
Debris of the front car of the Hexie D301 high-speed train, which rear-ended the D3115 train in July 2011, remains covered in mud and weeds in Wenzhou, China, on July 12, 2012. In the background, right, are cars of the D3115 train. (Atsushi Okudera)
July 18, 2012
WENZHOU, China--It's almost as if the rail disaster in this southeastern city that claimed 40 lives last July never happened.
CHANGING CHINA: Chinese companies facing new...
Zhu Bo, right, now works at a massage shop in Jieyang, Guangdong province. (Atsushi Okudera)
September 19, 2011
SHANGHAI--Peasant worker Zhu Bo has changed jobs six times over four years, part of a new generation of workers in China who rapidly change jobs, much to the detriment of their ...
Criticism spreads as China buries car in high-speed ...
Heavy machinery, bottom right, buries a crushed car of a high-speed train in Wenzhou, Zhejiang province, on July 24, 2011, which was involved the night before in a collision and derailment accident that claimed the lives of 40 people. (Teruo Kashiyama)
July 25, 2011
Criticism within China over a high-speed train accident that killed 35 has shifted from attacks against a lack of safety measures to accusations of a government cover-up.
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