At least 20 people were killed Saturday in an explosion inside an expressway tunnel in central China's Hunan province, state media said.
One miner is trapped and 28 others are dead following a gas explosion at a central Chinese coal mine, state-run media reported Sunday, citing rescuers.
Heavy rain and flooding have left 105 people dead and more than 60 are missing in southern China, the state-run Xinhua news agency reported Monday.
Hong Yulan has fished the shallow waters of Dongting Lake for nearly 30 years, but this summer she is doing something she never fathomed possible: walking across the bottom of her lake.
After an eight-hour pursuit, police in northwestern China have caught a disgruntled former employee who allegedly threw an ignited bottle of gasoline into a rural bank Friday morning, injuring 49 people, local officials said.
Ten people died and four others were hospitalized Thursday after a fire ripped through a hotel in China's central Hunan province, state-run Xinhua news agency said, citing local government sources.
Six education and traffic officials were fired Tuesday, a day after 14 children died when a three-wheeled vehicle plunged into a creek in central China, according to state media.
A three-wheeled vehicle carrying 20 children on their way to school in central China's Hunan province plunged into a creek Monday morning, killing 14 of the children and injuring several others, according to state media.
A 100 car pile-up and a bus crash left several people dead in China. CNN's Eunice Yoon reports.
Eight people were killed after a truck carrying firecracker materials exploded in Hunan province, China's Xinhua news agency reported Saturday.
Rescue crews on Sunday worked to retrieve the remains of 28 workers killed in a coal mine accident in northwest China, state media said.
Chinese officials were investigating Sunday a coal mine blast that killed 17 miners in central Hunan province, state media said.
A stampede on a school staircase in central China's Hunan province killed eight students and injured 26 others, state media reported.
Eight days after they were trapped in an underground mine in northwest China, three coal mine workers were rescued early Sunday, state media said.
Twenty-six people were killed in a mine accident in central China's Hunan Province, state-run China Daily reported.
Authorities in China's south-central Hunan province are associating disgruntled parents of children stricken by lead poisoning with the outlawed spiritual group Falun Gong.
Hengjiang Village is nestled in the lush mountains of China's Hunan province, just a few kilometers from the bustling city of Wugang. It is a simple place, where mopeds carrying families of four zoom up and down dirt roads, and villagers drink water from local wells.
China is shutting down a pair of smelting plants suspected of sickening several thousand children. CNN's Emily Chang reports.
At the Fengxiang County Hospital in Shaanxi Province, children are sleeping two to a bed. Cots line the hallways and hospital beds crowd offices to accommodate the ceaseless flow of new patients. In the last two weeks, so many children have been diagnosed with lead poisoning that there's barely enough room for everyone.
An explosion at a detonator and dynamite warehouse at a coal mine in central China killed at least 18 people on Friday, according to Xinhua.
A woman from China's far northwest has died from bird flu, health authorities said Saturday, making her the country's fourth fatality from the deadly avian influenza so far this year.
China has recorded its third bird flu death this year after a 16-year-old boy died in central China on Tuesday morning.
Two Chinese nationals found dead in an apartment in a brutal double killing in the northern English city of Newcastle last week may have been involved in Internet betting scams and producing false visas, police said Friday.
The death toll from China's outbreak of hand-foot-mouth disease has climbed to 28 -- all of them children -- the state-run Xinhua news agency reported Wednesday.
CNN's Dan Rivers eats New Year's Eve dinner with a family who is lucky to be together after a harrowing journey home.
Luo Miao plays ping-pong with her fellow factory workers, trying to get her mind off her family who will be spending this Lunar New Year without her.
Eleven electrical workers have died while trying to restore power to Chinese provinces that were plunged into darkness by the country's worst snow storm in 50 years, the state media reported Tuesday.
Monday brought welcome relief to millions of Chinese migrant workers desperate to see their families, as the nation's transportation system seemed to be getting back on its feet after being paralyzed by a historic winter storm.
CNN's Hugh Riminton reports from Guangzhou, China where holiday travel has come to a standstill due to snow.
CNN's Hugh Riminton reports from the Guangzhou, China, train station where police and military have restored order.
CNN's Hugh Riminton reports from Guangzhou, China, where one family is facing many hurdles on a long journey home.
China has taken the step of asking millions of migrant workers to forgo their annual Lunar New Year trip home, saying the worst winter weather in 50 years is expected to pummel the country for at least another three days.
China advised millions of migrant workers to abandon their annual Lunar New Year trip home, saying the worst winter weather in 50 years is expected to pummel the country for at least another three days.
Parts of China have been hit with unusually cold weather. Freezing rain and snow has created a travel nightmare.
CNN's Hugh Riminton reports from Guangzhou, China where holiday snow has stranded thousands of travelers.
In a rare move for a Chinese politician, Prime Minister Wen Jiabao apologized Tuesday to the hundreds of thousands of people stranded in train stations across his country due to bad weather and a power crisis.
At least 25 people were killed when a bus plunged off an icy road in China Tuesday, as the worst winter weather in half a century threw the peak travel season into chaos and led to an emergency meeting of the Communist Party Politburo.
Chinese workers and army soldiers were racing to sweep snow-covered highways and unclog railway routes for millions of travelers trapped by cold weather.
A second Chinese woman is reported to have died from bird flu in the eastern Anhui province, the third confirmed human case in the country.
The World Health Organization confirmed two human cases of bird flu in China, including a female poultry worker who died from the H5N1 strain of avian influenza.
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.
U.S. federal disease experts have called for adoptions of children from one Chinese orphanage to be suspended because of a measles outbreak.
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