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                    [Title] => China probe says stored chemical caused Tianjin blasts
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Deadly warehouse blasts that killed 165 people in a Chinese port city in August were triggered when a chemical stored in an unlicensed facility became too dry and caught fire, investigators announced Friday.

[DatePublished] => 2016-02-05 10:16:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => http://media.philstar.com/images/the-philippine-star/world/20160206/China-Tiajin-Explosion.jpg ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1549062 [Title] => Ship hijackings down in 2015, piracy mostly low-level theft [Summary] =>

A global maritime watchdog said Tuesday that ship hijackings declined in 2015 from a year earlier, while sea piracy incidents increased slightly but consisted mostly of low-level theft.

[DatePublished] => 2016-02-02 05:44:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1536198 [Title] => More Chinese cities issue red alerts for heavy smog [Summary] =>

More Chinese cities are issuing their first red alerts for pollution in response to forecasts of heavy smog, after the capital, Beijing, issued two this month following criticism for not releasing them earlier.

[DatePublished] => 2015-12-24 10:08:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => http://media.philstar.com/images/the-philippine-star/world/20151225/Smog-Pollution-China.jpg ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1531410 [Title] => China to get $300 million from ADB for smog efforts [Summary] =>

China is getting a $300 million loan from the Asian Development Bank to help clean up its smog-choked capital.

[DatePublished] => 2015-12-10 07:33:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1498980 [Title] => Final death toll set at 173 in China warehouse explosion [Summary] =>

Chinese authorities say they've ended the search for the remaining missing in a massive chemical warehouse explosion last month. The move sets the final death toll at 173 in China's worst industrial disaster in years.

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Chinese exports and imports contracted in August in the latest sign of weakness for the world's second-biggest economy.

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An explosion at a chemical plant in eastern China killed one person and injured nine others, a state news agency reported Sunday, less than two weeks after a similar disaster at a chemical warehouse killed 123 people.

[DatePublished] => 2015-08-23 06:34:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1491315 [Title] => Blast at Chinese chemical plant kills 1 [Summary] =>

An explosion at a chemical plant in eastern China killed one person and injured nine others, a state news agency reported Sunday, 10 days after a similar disaster at a chemical warehouse killed 121 people.

[DatePublished] => 2015-08-23 00:11:42 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => http://media.philstar.com/images/the-philippine-star/headlines/20150823/china-factory-explosion.jpg ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1488814 [Title] => China blast zone blocked over contamination fear; 112 dead [Summary] =>

Authorities pulled more bodies from a massive blast site in the Chinese port of Tianjin, pushing the death toll to 112 on Sunday as teams scrambled to clear dangerous chemical contamination.

[DatePublished] => 2015-08-16 05:44:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => ) [9] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1488394 [Title] => Death toll in blasts in China's Tianjin port rises to 85 [Summary] =>

The death toll from an inferno and huge explosions in the Chinese port city of Tianjin climbed to 85 on Saturday, including 21 firefighters, with hundreds of people injured and some still unaccounted for.

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