Chemicals stored at Tianjin warehouse determined

Although the dog is enjoying the company of the rescuers, people still hope that he would find a new home soon. The blast killed at least 114 people and injured hundreds. Yang had previously worked for 18 years in Tianjin in state industry and local government, rising to executive vice mayor. His son has additionally reportedly been taken in for questioning. The Chinese government’s relationship with journalists should be more like the relationship Western governments have with reporters, some of the largest state media outlets now say.

“There’s no way we can go back to live there”.

The cyanide level in the water at the Tianjin port is 277 times the acceptable standard following a deadly warehouse blast last week, Chinese authorities said. Residents noted white foam appearing on the streets after a rainstorm and some people (including journalists) complained of burning and stinging sensations when the rain hit their skin. We have transferred 150 tons of sodium cyanide out of the area. He proposed to build a memorial park at the blast site for the “heroes”.

Yu is reported to have said that Dong’s father “was a police chief and well connected in the port”. Both men have been detained.

It also operated for months without proper licensing, something that the company’s key shareholders said was standard practice, according to the official Xinhua News Agency.

“Lately, in some places there have been major industrial safety accidents, one after the other, revealing yet again that problems in the area of industrial safety remain prominent and grave”, said a statement issued after the meeting.

Dong said Ruihai also had to clear another seemingly impossible obstacle.

Within days of the disaster, blatant violations of workplace safety have been exposed at Ruihai global Logistics, which was storing too much hazardous material too closely to residential homes and public infrastructure, including a light-rail station.

“Yu Xuewei asked me not to worry but leave the matter to him”.

Dong said company officials shopped around for approvals with different safety evaluation firms until they got the result they desired.

The instructions came after state media reports last week that the State Council Work Safety Commission announced nationwide inspections of businesses involved in unsafe chemicals and explosives.

However, the bureau insisted that the air and drinking water in the city were within safe levels, and that water pollution had been efficiently contained. The government needs to provide the public with an honest assessment of the potential damage caused by the blast, not play down health fears, death tolls, or bury news that made it look bad, the People’s Daily wrote on August 19.