Authorities are investigating the death of a Tibetan villager fatally shot by police during their probe into an alleged theft at a construction site in China's northwest Gansu province, state media reported.
A school bus accident in eastern China left 15 elementary students dead and eight others hurt, the latest in a series of deadly crashes involving children, local government officials said Tuesday.
Eighteen children and two adults died after an overloaded school bus collided with a coal truck Wednesday in northwest China's Gansu province, the state-run Xinhua news agency reported.
Typhoon Muifa is set to bring gusty winds and rainfall to coastal areas of China late Saturday or on Sunday, after drenching the southern Japanese island of Okinawa.
The death toll from the devastating mudslides in China's Yunnan province now stands at 38, with 54 people still missing, the state-run Xinhua news agency said, citing a local police chief.
The death toll from the mudslides in a northwestern Chinese province now stands at 1,407, state-run Xinhua news agency said Friday, citing the government. At least 358 people are still missing.
China held a moment of silence for victims of landslides in northwestern China. CNN's Emily Chang reports.
Rescuers expect the death toll to climb from mudslides this week that have killed at least two people and left 90 missing in southwestern China, state media reported Thursday.
A fresh wave of mudslides struck southwest China early Wednesday, leaving seven people injured and dozens more missing, state media reported.
The death toll from the devastating mudslide in China's northwestern Gansu province rose slightly to 1,254 Monday, a day after the country paused for three minutes in memory of those who perished.
Survivors search for those buried in the mud that swallowed homes in one Chinese village. CNN's Emily Chang reports.
Flags lowered to half-staff Sunday across China and at the nation's embassies and consulates around the world to mourn the victims of deadly mudslides in northwestern Gansu provice.
China observes a national day of mourning as the official mudslide death toll rises, as CNN's Emily Chang reports.
More rain is expected Friday in northwest China's Gansu province, where the death toll from a massive mudslide continues to climb.
There were homes here once, but Yueyuan village is now a sweeping mud plain. Residents dig through the sludge where they think their bedroom once was.
A man is pulled alive from the rubble in China after being trapped for more than two days. CNN's John Vause reports.
Massive mudslides in northwestern China have killed 337 people, the state-run Xinhua news agency reported Monday.
At least 65 people were reported dead Sunday from overnight landslides in Gansu Province in northwest China, according to state-run media.
China has begun to expand Internet access in western China's Xinjiang autonomous region after cutting service because of deadly rioting over the summer, state-run media reported.
Rebuilding China's earthquake-devastated areas is expected to cost $147 billion, according to a government report released last August.
The Olympic torch relay continues in Guang'an, China, on the last weekend before the Olympic Games begin in Beijing.
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Chinese officials said Saturday that 432 babies now have kidney stones after being fed with contaminated baby milk powder, the official Xinhua news agency reported.
If there's one thing that makes Beijing an enticing city to both local and expatriate Beijingers alike, it's the food.
The death toll from a 6.2-magnitude earthquake that struck central China's battered Sichuan province climbed to two Wednesday, with another 22 injured, local emergency officials reported.
A 6.2-magnitude earthquake struck China's Sichuan province on Tuesday, killing at least one person and seriously injuring five others, a local emergency official told CNN.
China on Monday began withdrawing the first batch of 40,000 troops from three provinces hit by the massive May 12 earthquake, as authorities shift their focus away from rescue and toward reconstruction
An unstable lake created by a landslide is China's "most urgent task" in the aftermath of this month's massive earthquake, Vice Premier Hui Liangyu said, according to state-run media.
CNN's Hugh Riminton walks us through his personal experiences in earthquake ravaged China.
Two additional aftershocks struck quake-ravaged China on Tuesday, injuring at least 63 people and causing the collapse of more than 420,000 homes, according to the state-run news agency Xinhua.
CNN's Hugh Riminton explains how quake lakes were formed and the threat they pose.
Chinese military engineers are prepared to dynamite a potentially dangerous "quake lake" created when landslides dammed a river after this month's earthquake in which more than 65,000 people were killed, state-run media reported.
A powerful 6.0-magnitude aftershock hit China's Sichuan province Sunday, reportedly destroyed more than 70,000 homes in the region where at least 60,000 people were killed by a powerful earthquake on May 12.
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.
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CNN's Eunice Yoon reports on one of largest ecological projects in Chinese history: the Green Wall of China.
The Olympic torch begins a 130-day, 85,000-mile journey Monday that will take it from the site of ancient Olympia in Greece to Beijing, China, where the 2008 summer games will begin in August.
U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Friday criticized China for its crackdown on anti-government protesters in Tibet and called on "freedom-loving people" worldwide to denounce China.
U.S. House Speaker meets with the Dalai Lama in India. CNN's Sara Sidner reports.
The communist government's leading newspaper called Saturday to "resolutely crush" Tibetan demonstrations
U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Friday criticized China for its crackdown on anti-government protesters in Tibet and called on "freedom-loving people" worldwide to denounce China.
Chinese authorities have obstructed foreign journalists at least 30 times as they sought to cover unrest in Tibet and nearby provinces in recent days, an organization for international journalists in China said Tuesday.
Tibet's spiritual leader Thursday said he was powerless to stop anti-Chinese violence as authorities in Beijing acknowledged for the first time that unrest had spread into neighboring Chinese provinces.
New video from China suggests that security forces have yet to gain complete control of Tibet and neighboring provinces which have suffered eruptions of anti-Chinese violence since last week.
Chinese authorities sequestered an American film crew in their hotel rooms so they would not see anti-government protests outside a Buddhist temple last week, a member of the crew said.
A billion-dollar steel mill isn't easily swept under the rug. But give the Chinese city of Changzhou credit for trying.
Parts of China's Great Wall are in danger because of reckless human activities, according to the state-run Xinhua news agency.
Two more children have died of bird flu, bringing the human toll from the disease to at least 14, as world health experts warned against panic in stricken countries.
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