Nearly 100 children were hurt in a stampede at an elementary school in northwest China on Monday, state media said.
An explosion and fire at a plastic factory in northwestern China's Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region forced authorities to shut a nearby airport temporarily, the state-run Xinhua news agency reported Saturday.
At least 11 people were killed Thursday after a tourist bus fell into a ravine in northwestern China, the state-run Xinhua news agency reported.
One year after violent ethnic riots rocked Urumqi, life in the capital city of the Xinjiang region seems calmer, at least on the surface.
A moderate earthquake rattled far-western China on Thursday, near its border with Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan, the U.S. Geological Survey reported.
A Chinese court has sentenced four people to death for their roles in last year's deadly riots in the western city of Urumqi, state media said Tuesday.
Nine people have been executed in connection with ethnic riots last July that killed about 200 people in western China's Xinjiang region, the state-run China News Service reported Monday.
China acknowledged Sunday that security forces shot dead 12 people during ethnic riots in the northwest earlier this month.
At least 184 people died in last weekend's violent protests in China's far-west Xinjiang region, state-run media reported.
Five major mosques near the center of violence last weekend in Urumqi, the capital of China's far-west Xinjiang region, were closed Friday morning, state-run media reported.
Several hundred people staged a new protest in Urumqi on Tuesday, demanding the release of relatives detained in connection with weekend demonstrations by ethnic Uyghur residents in China's far western Xinjiang region.
Victims describe the riots in Urumqi, the capitol of China's Xinjiang region.
Chinese state media reports that more than 100 people have died in riots in the country's Xinjiang region.
China's remote Xinjiang region, hit by violence that officials say has left scores dead, has seen a recent surge in unrest involving ethnic Uyghurs.
Ethnic Uyghur residents in Urumqi, capital of China's far west Xinjiang region, took to the streets Sunday afternoon in a rare public protest that prompted a police lockdown of the city.
Three family members who set themselves on fire in Beijing last month were apparently protesting the demolition of their home and were demanding "too much" compensation, an official said.
China has killed 13,000 birds in the country's far northwest to control what it called an epidemic of bird flu, state media reported Tuesday.
A pair of earthquakes that struck Tibet on Monday killed nine people -- fewer than authorities originally reported, China's Ministry of Civil Affairs reported Tuesday.
Chinese officials in the northwestern Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region reported the death of a fourth baby Thursday in the country's expanding contaminated infant formula case. The tainted milk powder has already sickened more than 6,200 babies.
A bus crash Tuesday in northwest China killed 25 passengers, most of them students, state-run media reported.
An attack on a security checkpoint in northwestern China's Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region killed three members of the security force and wounded a fourth, state media reported Tuesday.
China explosions
updated: Tue Aug 12 2008 17:05:00
Several explosions have rocked the Xinjiang province of China. CNN's Emily Chang reports.
Analysts believe revival of Muslim separatist insurgency in Xinjiang is aided by militants based in Pakistan
Authorities have stepped up security ahead of this month's Beijing Olympics after an attack killed 16 police officers and injured 16 more in northwestern China, state-run media reported on Tuesday.
Police in China have "cracked" an international terrorist group that was planning to attack Olympic venues in Shanghai, state media reported Thursday.
Nepalese authorities Thursday detained at least 650 Tibetan exiles protesting against China's policies in the province ahead of this weekend's Olympic torch relay in Tibet, security officials in Kathmandu said.
Chinese officials told the state-run media Sunday that they successfully thwarted two terrorist attacks, including one targeting the Summer Olympic Games.
China says it has thwarted two terrorist attacks -- one targeting the Summer Olympic Games. CNN's John Vause reports.
Some 5 million have been evacuated, but improved emergency-response planning may have saved thousands
An Azerbaijani cargo plane has crashed in northwest China killing all seven crew members, according to Xinhua news agency.
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