At least two people died when heavy rains battered several Chinese provinces over the weekend, forcing thousands to evacuate as floodwaters destroyed crops and swept away houses, state media reported Sunday.
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.
The death toll rose to three Friday following a series of explosions a day earlier at government facilities in the eastern Chinese city of Fuzhou, local officials told CNN.
In a rare admission, the Chinese government has said the Three Gorges Dam -- the world's largest hydropower plant -- is having "urgent problems," warning of environmental, construction and migration "disasters" amid the worst drought to hit southern China in 50 years.
China's Three Gorges Dam may be contributing to the country's drought. CNN's Ramy Inocencio reports.
Explosions at three government facilities in eastern China Thursday left two people dead, including the alleged perpetrator, the country's state-run Xinhua news agency reported.
Drinking water is in short supply in parts of eastern China where a months-long drought has reservoirs tapped, state-run media reported.
More than 450 people were evacuated by Saturday morning after a land collapse in eastern China, local authorities said, according to state media.
Soldiers and rescue workers on Friday pulled stranded people out of deluged swathes of southern China inundated by 11 days of heavy rain, state media said.
Severe flooding in China has killed nearly 200 people and forced millions from their homes. CNN's John Vause reports.
More than 1,000 people have been rescued from rushing flood waters in eastern China after a dike burst on the Fu river in Jiangxi province, the Xinhua news agency reported.
China braces for more rain as it deals with extensive flood damage and deaths. CNN's John Vause reports.
Surging flood waters breached a levee in Jiangxi province, China forcing thousands to evacuate. CNN's John Vause reports.
Nearly 200 people have died and more than 120 are missing from heavy rains and floods ravaging 10 southern China provinces, the government news agency said Tuesday.
The death toll from heavy flooding in southern China rose to 147, as authorities forecast more rain in coming days.
Li Yuning, a high school senior in China's eastern Shandong province, hopes to explore a career in advertising or journalism. But to get into a university to pursue this path, she must first run the gauntlet known as "Gaokao," a grueling university entrance examination given every summer across the Asian nation.
A man was arrested in eastern China after police say he fatally stabbed eight people, including three family members, state-run media reported Sunday.
Two emergency teams worked Saturday to rescue 12 miners trapped inside a coal mine that caught fire in east China's Jiangxi Province, local officials told the state-run Xinhua news agency.
A typhoon killed at least 39 people as it swept across southeast China this week, destroying crops and battering homes, Xinhua news agency said.
Typhoon Sepat slams China
Typhoon Sepat swept China's southern coast on Sunday, killing 14 people and forcing almost a million people from their homes before weakening into a tropical storm.
The World Health Organization says two more people have died from bird flu in China, as Turkey sets up a bird flu crisis center in its capital Ankara to curb a growing spate of human cases.
Thousands of people are sleeping in tents and open-air courtyards early Sunday after a moderate earthquake destroyed thousands of homes in eastern China, killing at least 17 people and injuring hundreds of others, according to Chinese officials and state-run media reports.
A chance to work on a historic dinosaur discovery seems a fitting reward for a paleontologist who first said the word tyrannosaurus at age 3.
About 30 people have been killed in a bus explosion in east China's Jiangxi Province, according to the state-run Xinhua news agency.
Rescue workers in China are searching for more victims after the death toll from Typhoon Rananim rose to 115.
One of the most powerful typhoons to hit China in several years has slammed the country's southeastern coast, killing at least 63 people and injuring over 1,800.
China's death toll from Typhoon Rananim rose to 115 late Friday, after the most powerful storm of the season slammed into the country's southeastern coast, state television reported. More than 1,800 people were reportedly injured.
Chinese agricultural officials have confirmed that the H5N1 strain of bird flu -- the more deadly variety -- has spread to Anhui Province in Eastern China.
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