The plant, located in Taiyuan in China's Shanxi province, employs 79, 000 workers, Mr. Woo said.
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In 2007, he posted articles highlighting problems with the administration of vaccines in China's central Shanxi province.
Deputy police chief of Shanxi province, Li Yali, has been removed from his duties and an investigation has begun.
On Wednesday, acting Shanxi governor Li Xiaopeng, son of former Premier Li Peng, visited the site of the explosion.
Even out in horrible, dirt-poor Shanxi, the author concludes, change is coming slowly.
Ding was an illiterate egg farmer in rural Shanxi five feet ten, with broad shoulders and a foghorn of a voice.
Regardless, bragging rights for Number One go to Erdos and Inner Mongolia, with coal production outpacing Shanxi province in early 2009.
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Since then, Mr Zhu's site has also exposed corrupt officials in Liaoning and Shanxi provinces, resulting in at least two firings.
On April 23rd, the WHO extended its travel warning to cover three new areas: Beijing, China's Shanxi province and Toronto, Canada's commercial capital.
Shenhua, who also signed Drogba's former Chelsea teammate Nicolas Anelka, were found guilty of fixing a game against Shanxi Guoli during the 2003 season.
In 2008, for example, Shanxi governor Meng Xuenong was dismissed after taking responsibility for a mining accident in which more than 250 people died.
To encourage model behaviour, Shanxi's Communist bosses say they have been spying on party members using webcams, and demanding officials to study more Marxism-Leninism.
Southern Weekend had already taken up the cause in March, describing the hitherto little publicised case of Yicheng county in the northern province of Shanxi.
Internet users are outraged by the early release on parole of a Shanxi official who was jailed for accepting bribes, Hong Kong's South China Morning Post reports.
In the north Ningxia, Shanxi, Hebei and Gansu are drought-stricken.
Originally from Shanxi, he said his motive for coming back from Shenzhen was in part to be closer to home, but said he would rather go back south.
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Other Chinese media outlets picked up on the story and six months later, China's Health Ministry confirmed that three children had been made sick by vaccines in Shanxi.
Also in Shanxi, The Beijing News questions how a county official who was sacked two months ago for disciplinary violations has been reinstated as an environmental bureau deputy chief.
Former Premier Li Peng's son has been appointed Shanxi governor despite coming under fire for his handling of disaster cover-ups as acting governor, Hong Kong's Ta Kung Pao reports.
Elsewhere, villagers are returning to their homes after a reservoir partially collapsed in Shanxi province on the weekend causing more than 10, 000 residents to flee their flooded homes, China Daily reports.
Meanwhile, a food official in Luliang in Shanxi has had demerits after internet users exposed photos of a luxury sofa and toilet and a double bed in his office, Xinhua reports.
However, the investigation uncovered some irregularities in the way in which vaccines were labelled in the province, and one Shanxi health official was also caught embezzling 270, 000 yuan from the vaccine supplier.
It also contained investigative reports on the environmental damage caused by abandoned coal mines in Shanxi province and a poor man in Jiangsu province who was forced to administer his own dialysis treatments.
About 250km (150 miles) to the north, in neighbouring Shanxi province, in Pingdong, a much poorer village, 250 people live along battered dirt roads, and try to grow wheat, corn, soyabeans and winter melon on the dry, rocky mountain land.
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But one woman, who scrapes a living by selling sex aids and whose peasant family back in the northern province of Shanxi saves all it can to help her with her medical expenses, says dialysis in a hospital costs more than four times as much as their do-it-yourself method.
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