A Buddhist nun in southwest China has died after setting herself on fire, the 11th Tibetan -- and second nun -- to self-immolate since March.
Nearly 800 dogs were rescued by a Chinese animal protection group last Saturday night in the city of Zigong, in southwest Sichuan province.
When an earthquake struck the mountainous Chinese province of Sichuan in 2008, it caused unprecedented damage and left nearly 90,000 dead or missing.
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.
At least 17 people were dead and 44 missing Tuesday from rain-triggered landslides in southwest China's Yunnan and Sichuan provinces, the government-run Xinhua news agency said.
CNN's Emily Chang reports on a microfinance firm that helps Chinese farmers start small businesses.
Meng Shunyou escorts us into the ruins of his old town, his wife clutching their new baby girl on her hip.
It was at 2:28 p.m. on May 12, 2008, when a devastating earthquake shattered the villages of China's Sichuan province, leaving 69,000 people dead and 15 million displaced.
The earthquake in Sichuan, southwestern China, last May left around 69,000 people dead and 15 million people displaced. Now ecologists have assessed the earthquake's impact on biodiversity and the habitat for some of the last existing wild giant pandas.
CNN's John Vause reports on the remarkable progress of a village in China flattened by an earthquake just a year ago.
For 20 hours Gao Ying lay in the rubble of her school in China's Sichuan province last spring. The May 2008 earthquake that struck southwest China had leveled many buildings across the region.
CNN's John Vause reports on the grief and anger many parents still feel, a year after China's deadly earthquake.
In one big jolt, the worst earthquake to hit China in 32 years changed the lives of millions of people in the nation's heartland.
CNN's Alex Zolbert reports on how an inspiring team of doctors is helping survivors of the Sichuan quake 'Stand Tall.'
China on Tuesday marked the first anniversary of a devastating earthquake that left nearly 90,000 dead or missing one year ago in mountainous Sichuan province.
In one big jolt, the worst earthquake to hit China in 32 years changed the lives of millions of people in the nation's heartland.
A magnitude-7.9 earthquake that struck southwestern China last year left 5,335 students dead or missing and disabled an additional 546 children, state media reported.
Chinese government authorities have intimidated and unlawfully detained parents and relatives of children who died in last year's Sichuan earthquake and harassed their supporters, an Amnesty International report said this week.
Two giant pandas arrived in Taiwan Tuesday after leaving China's Sichuan province for their new home, in a sign of improving ties between the cross-strait neighbors.
Two pandas reach Taiwan, as Beijing practices panda diplomacy across the Taiwan Strait. CNN's Hugh Riminton reports.
Everyone needs some chicken soup for the soul -- even pandas
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.
A 5.9 magnitude earthquake shook China's Sichuan province on Saturday, killing 22 and injuring dozens more.
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 earthquake hit southwest China Saturday, killing 22 people, according to the state-run Xinhua news agency.
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.
The Olympic torch's final parade in homage to victims of China's earthquake was run after the route was changed amid worries about security
Planning to visit China during the Olympics, but already worried about what else there will be to do besides watching the Games?
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
CNN's Eunice Yoon shows how survivors in the quake-hit Chinese province of Sichuan are coping with trauma.
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon arrived in China Saturday to observe earthquake relief efforts, China's state-run news agency reported.
Earthquake-ravaged sections of China's Sichuan province braced Thursday for heavy rainstorms that may trigger new landslides.
Flooding has killed 55 people and forced more than a million to flee their homes across a stretch of southwestern China, including the earthquake-ravaged Sichuan province, state media reported Sunday.
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.
China has declared victory in the effort to drain a lake formed by last month's earthquake. ITN's Lindsey Hilsum reports.
Tearful researchers at the world's most famous panda reserve in China on Tuesday buried one of their animals killed by the massive earthquake that hit the country last month.
ITN's John Ray reports China's pandas and their keepers are still feeling the trauma from the earthquake.
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.
A 5.3 magnitude aftershock struck China's quake-battered Sichuan province Thursday amid concerns over rising water levels in a lake formed by landslides from the massive May 12 temblor
After tolerating protests against shoddy building construction following the Sichuan quake, the police crack down
CNN's Wilf Dinnick takes us on a treacherous journey to China's quake lakes.
CNN's Wilf Dinnick reports from a forward operating base for engineers and military personnel trying to prevent flooding.
A national holiday meant for kids brings only anger to parents whose children were killed in quake-hit "tofu schools"
Earthquake survivors in China dig through debris looking for material to sell so they can buy food and other necessities.
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.
Analysis: The Hollywood star's "karma" remark was a gaffe, but perhaps revealing: Why has the world's aid flowed more freely toward the victims of Burma's cyclone than China's earthquake?
A spokesman for the Chinese Embassy in Washington said Friday that a devastating earthquake in southwest China destroyed or heavily damaged 436,000 properties leading to 4.8 million homeless, according to official figures.
Refugees from China's massive earthquake wait for news of missing family members. CNN's Eunice Yoon reports.
ITN's Paul Davies reports on rescue and aid efforts in 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.
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.
CNN's Hugh Riminton explains how quake lakes were formed and the threat they pose.
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.
Doctors are examining Wang Youqun on Wednesday. Youqun was trapped for 195 hours from the quake.
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
Chinese open their hearts and wallets to help earthquake survivors. CNN's Jaime FlorCruz reports.
One of the most destructive moments in Chinese history is bringing together -- at least temporarily -- this vast nation of more than a billion people, made up of disparate ethnic groups stretching across five time zones.
The death toll from last week's devastating earthquake in south-west China has risen to 40,075, senior government officials have said
A man was rescued after being trapped for nearly 179 hours in a collapsed building near the epicenter of the May 12 earthquake that struck China's Sichuan province, the country's state-run news agency reported Tuesday.
ITN's Lindsay Hilsum reports from one Chinese village devastated by the massive earthquake.
China on Monday began three days of national mourning as the death toll from last week's devastating earthquake mounted and rescue workers continued to search for survivors among the rubble.
Chinese rescue workers face danger from powerful aftershocks. ITN's Bill Neely reports on the recovery efforts.
A strong aftershock early Sunday rattled areas still reeling from last week's massive earthquake in China, shaking frayed nerves of survivors and slowing rescue and relief efforts.
Covered bodies are lined up as family and friends come to identify them in Beichuan, China.
Parents are waiting at schools destroyed by the devastating Chinese earthquake hoping their children will be pulled from the debris but hope is fading.
Rainy weather and poor logistics thwarted efforts by relief troops who walked for hours over rock, debris and mud on Tuesday in hopes of reaching the worst-hit area of an earthquake that killed nearly 10,000 in central China, state-run media reported.
A 7.9 magnitude earthquake rocks China Monday Morning. CNN's John Vause has the latest from Chongqing
Chinese authorities say nearly 400 dams were damaged by Monday's massive earthquake, according to media reports, as efforts to relieve the pressure at a dam near one quake-hit city continue.
China's death toll from a massive earthquake soared by thousands Wednesday as troops rushed to a dam feared critically damaged.
A massive rescue effort is under way to free tens of thousands of people believed to be trapped under collapsed buildings
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.
A 7.8 magnitude quake strikes central China, killing thousands and trapping hundreds of students under their school
Tibetans in exile burned Chinese goods in Dharamsala, India on Tuesday, protesting Chinese rule in Tibet.
Animal handlers in China have developed a "sexercise" program to try to encourage extinction-threatened pandas to overcome their notoriously low sex drives.
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.
In Litang, in the west of Sichuan province, Tibetans have not joined the protests elsewhere. Still, they fear Beijing's fist
Some 5 million have been evacuated, but improved emergency-response planning may have saved thousands
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.
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