A bus trip intended to reward customers of a health-care products company turned deadly when the vehicle plunged off a road in China's northern Shanxi province, killing 13 people, according to state-run Xinhua news agency.
A search party of hundreds hunted for a hot-air balloon that had been reported catching fire and crashing in southern China, arriving in time to save only three of the seven people aboard.
Three people were sentenced Saturday to up to 15 years in prison over a series of syringe stabbings that triggered unrest in China's western city of Urumqi, the state-run Xinhua news agency reported.
A chemical plant explosion early Wednesday in Luoyang, China, killed five factory workers and injured 108 others, seven of them seriously, state-run media said.
Authorities were trying to rescue 15 workers trapped in a flooded coal mine in the southwestern Chinese province of Guizhou, state media said Friday.
In a case that has drawn widespread attention from Chinese Internet users, a woman escaped punishment for fatally stabbing a local official and injuring another in self-defense, state-run media reported.
The two-story buildings in Yaojin are tall and straight -- they look well built and solid. People now live an incredibly normal life here, just 17 miles from the epicenter of the 7.9-magnitude earthquake that had flattened their village and left nearly 90,000 dead or missing one year ago this week.
A man seeking about $660 in unpaid wages walked into an office building in the northwestern Chinese city of Urumqi on Thursday and detonated a bomb, killing himself and injuring two employees, the state-run Xinhua news agency reported.
China's first lunar probe landed on the moon in a controlled collision Sunday, marking the first phase of the nation's three-stage moon mission, the state-run Xinhua news agency reported.
The death toll from a coal mine blast in northern China climbed Sunday to 74, the state-run media Xinhua News Agency said.
A bus trip intended to reward customers of a health-care products company turned deadly when the vehicle plunged off a road in China's northern Shanxi province, killing 13 people, according to state-run Xinhua news agency.
A search party of hundreds hunted for a hot-air balloon that had been reported catching fire and crashing in southern China, arriving in time to save only three of the seven people aboard.
Three people were sentenced Saturday to up to 15 years in prison over a series of syringe stabbings that triggered unrest in China's western city of Urumqi, the state-run Xinhua news agency reported.
A chemical plant explosion early Wednesday in Luoyang, China, killed five factory workers and injured 108 others, seven of them seriously, state-run media said.
Authorities were trying to rescue 15 workers trapped in a flooded coal mine in the southwestern Chinese province of Guizhou, state media said Friday.
In a case that has drawn widespread attention from Chinese Internet users, a woman escaped punishment for fatally stabbing a local official and injuring another in self-defense, state-run media reported.
The two-story buildings in Yaojin are tall and straight -- they look well built and solid. People now live an incredibly normal life here, just 17 miles from the epicenter of the 7.9-magnitude earthquake that had flattened their village and left nearly 90,000 dead or missing one year ago this week.
A man seeking about $660 in unpaid wages walked into an office building in the northwestern Chinese city of Urumqi on Thursday and detonated a bomb, killing himself and injuring two employees, the state-run Xinhua news agency reported.
China's first lunar probe landed on the moon in a controlled collision Sunday, marking the first phase of the nation's three-stage moon mission, the state-run Xinhua news agency reported.
The death toll from a coal mine blast in northern China climbed Sunday to 74, the state-run media Xinhua News Agency said.
Job losses triggered by the global financial crisis have driven some 20 million Chinese workers from cities back to their rural homelands, according to China's state-run Xinhua news agency.
A Chinese official met with North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il in Pyongyang on Friday, the state-run Xinhua news agency reported.
At least 17 people have died from a gas leak at a steel plant in China's northern Hebei province, the state-run Xinhua news agency reported early Thursday.
Multinational naval forces rescued the crew of a Chinese merchant ship from pirates in the Gulf of Aden on Wednesday, shipping sources said.
Eleven schoolgirls in northwest China's Shaanxi province died from carbon monoxide poisoning after they used a school-provided charcoal heater to warm their dorm room, China's state-run Xinhua news agency reported Tuesday.
Landslides in southwestern China killed at least 20 people over the weekend, state-run media reported Monday.
Nine people were killed in the pair of earthquakes that struck Tibet, China's Ministry of Civil Affairs reported on Tuesday, lowering the toll of 30 that had initially been reported.
At least 56 people have been killed in two mine disasters in China this weekend.
Officials on Monday announced the death of a second child who consumed contaminated milk powder. More than 1,200 others have been sickened, according to China's Health Ministry.
Chinese police arrested two brothers suspected of adding a dangerous chemical to milk they sold to a company that produced infant formula that killed two babies and sickened more than 1,200 others
The governor of Shanxi Province in northern China resigned Sunday in the wake of a mud and rock slide that has killed at least 254 people, state-run media reported.
Authorities have detained 13 people after a mud and rock slide that may have killed several hundred people in northern China, state-run media reported.
An earthquake that struck southwest China has killed at least 32 people and injured more than 500, according to the state-run Xinhua news agency.
The 6.1-magnitude quake struck Sichuan province on Saturday along the same fault line as the May 12 earthquake that killed nearly 70,000
An explosion at a fireworks plant killed 15 people and wounded six others in northern China, state media reported Sunday.
At least 16 police officers were killed, and 16 more were wounded, after an attack on a border police station in western China on Monday morning, the state-run Xinhua news agency reported.
Two officials in southwestern China have been replaced for "severe malfeasance" after a protest involving about 30,000 people descended into a riot, the state-run Xinhua news agency reported Friday.
Authorities in southwestern China are reopening their investigation into the death of a teenage girl, following violent demonstrations over how it was handled, state-run media reported Tuesday.
Earthquake-ravaged sections of China's Sichuan province braced Thursday for heavy rainstorms that may trigger new landslides.
A huge volume of water Tuesday surged from a lake created by China's massive earthquake, safely plunging downstream through an area where hundreds of thousands had been braced for disaster, officials said.
Fears were mounting Monday for the safety of more than a million people downstream from a "quake lake" in China as waters threatening to burst a dam of landslide rubble were rising faster than engineers could drain them.
Authorities in southwestern China watched nervously Wednesday as rising water behind an earthquake-created dam neared a spillway designed to relieve pressure on it.
Chinese government officials raised the death toll from last week's earthquake past 55,000, as calls were sent out for more material to help the massive recovery effort.
A woman who survived nine days trapped in debris Wednesday became the latest in a series of against-the-odds rescues in China, where the official death toll from last week's massive earthquake has risen to 41,353.
A woman who survived on rainwater has been freed after being trapped in rubble for 195 hours in the aftermath of the Chinese earthquake, which has now killed more than 41,000. The 60-year-old woman escaped with just facial bruises and a minor fracture during her eight-day ordeal.
Half the residents of Yingxiu were killed by the May 12 earthquake, but the fight to rescue survivors goes on
China's death toll from a massive earthquake soared by thousands Wednesday as troops rushed to a dam feared critically damaged.
The official death toll from the China earthquake stood at 12,012 on Wednesday afternoon, but it is expected to rise as soldiers and rescue crews pull more bodies from crumbled buildings at the epicenter in Sichuan province.
China has made it mandatory for health care providers to report all cases of a viral illness that has sickened thousands of young children across the country, as the death toll rose Wednesday to 28
Human error was to blame for China's worst train accident in more than a decade, China's official news agency reported.
A pre-dawn collision Monday between two passenger trains in eastern China killed at least 43 people and injured 247, a state news agency reported.
A hijacker armed with explosives took 10 Australian tourists hostage on a bus in northwest China Wednesday, before police shot him dead, media in both countries reported.
Emergency crews have rescued 26 Chinese crew members whose boat began taking on water off the northern Philippines Sunday night, the state-run Chinese news agency reported.
China's government has suspended exports of toys covered with a toxic chemical that have been subject to recalls in many countries after sickening children, the state-run Xinhua News Agency reported.
China has suspended exports of the Aqua Dots toys contaminated with a chemical that can convert to a powerful "date rape" drug, the state-run Xinhua news agency reported Saturday. The toys have caused some children who swallowed the craft toys to vomit and lose consciousness.
Two Chinese brothers who tunneled their way out of a coal mine collapse after being trapped for nearly six days survived by eating coal and drinking urine, a local newspaper reported on Tuesday.
A typhoon killed at least 39 people as it swept across southeast China this week, destroying crops and battering homes, Xinhua news agency said.
Heavy rains poured into a coal mine in east China's Shandong province Friday, trapping 172 miners beneath the surface, China's Xinhua news agency reported.
Molten steel fell from a blast furnace onto workers at a northeast China steel plant Wednesday morning, killing 32 people and injuring two others, according to China's Xinhua news agency.
A pair of Olympic champion Liu Xiang's running spikes fetched 200,000 yuan ($25,770), for the children of migrant workers in Beijing, at a charity auction at the weekend, Xinhua news agency reported.
A moderate earthquake shook southwestern China, killing 13 people, injuring 41 people and toppling 56 houses, the official Xinhua News Agency said.
Chinese crews rescued 97 Vietnamese fishermen in the South China Sea on Saturday, according to state-run Xinhua news agency.
Unknown attackers gunned down three Chinese engineers and a Pakistani driver in southwestern Pakistan Wednesday evening, police sources told CNN.
China's environmental chief has resigned in the wake of a two-week crisis over a toxic spill that forced the shutdown of drinking water supplies to millions of Chinese and sparked concern in Russia.
The death toll from a weekend coal mine explosion in northeast China has climbed to 161, the state-run Xinhua news agency reported. One miner remains missing.
The Chinese government has invited the World Health Organization to assist in its investigation into three possible cases of avian influenza in Hunan province, state-run Xinhua news agency has reported.
China plans to sign a deal next month to buy 50 Boeing 787 Dreamliner jetliners in a deal worth $6 billion (€4.5 billion), the official Xinhua News Agency reported Friday.
A hotel fire in southern China has killed 30 people and injured 15, the official Xinhua News Agency reports.
About 30 people have been killed in a bus explosion in east China's Jiangxi Province, according to the state-run Xinhua news agency.
Thirty-six miners were trapped underground by flooding in China's southwestern Guizhou province, according to the country's state-run Xinhua News Agency.
At least 65 people are missing after a landslide hit China's southern Guizhou province, according to state-run media.
At least 25 miners have been killed and hopes are slim for a further 141 trapped underground after a gas explosion at a coal mine in northwest China.
Floods unleashed by torrential rains have killed at least 161 people and left dozens more missing in southwestern China, prompting authorities to put the massive Three Gorges hydroelectric project on alert.
Flooding and landslides set off by heavy rains have killed 55 people and left 52 missing in China's southwestern province of Sichuan, state media said on Monday.
An Azerbaijani cargo plane has crashed in northwest China killing all seven crew members, according to Xinhua news agency.
A Red Cross worker who visited the site of a train explosion in North Korea has described the scene as one of devastation, with burned and "totally flattened" buildings.
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