China Events

For the past two months, Chinese authorities have been trying to deal with a string of vicious attacks on young children in rural elementary schools. They have clamped down on news covera...

The Wangjialing mine in Shanxi province flooded after miners broke a wall into an abandoned shaft on 28 March. State media says so far 114 of the 153 missing miners have been rescued. ...

About 400 people have died and 10,000 others were injured after a 7.1-magnitude earthquake hit northwest China's Qinghai Province early on Wednesday, local authorities said. Many peopl...

Kim Jong-il, North Korea's leader, has arrived in China on a rare foreign trip that is being seen as an attempt to win financial and political support from his impoverished nation's only ...

North Korean leader Kim Jong-il, on his China trip that wrapped up Thursday, placed emphasis on economic cooperation, in addition to efforts to resume the six-party denuclearization talks...

As of Wednesday, flooding in China has killed 392 people this year, with 143 still missing, the nation' s flood control authority said Wednesday. Torrential rains have pounded 23 provi...

The death toll from a train derailment in east China Sunday has risen to 19, said rescue authorities. Another 71 people were injured, 11 of them seriously, after the accident in Jiangx...

South Korea and the United States kicked off their latest round of military exercises on Monday allegedly aimed at enhancing joint defense capabilities and deterring potential provocation...

Rescuers saved 48 of 91 people aboard a Henan Airlines plane that overshot a runway and burst into flames Tuesday in the northeast Chinese city of Yichun, according to an Associated Press...

Liu Xiaobo, an irrepressible, chain-smoking Chinese dissident imprisoned last year for subversion, was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize Friday for helping to spearhead a campaign for more fr...

Japan and the US began their biggest-ever joint military exercise today, as South Korea warned it would carry out air strikes against North Korea if the regime repeated its attack on Yeon...

"This fact (Xiaobo's imprisonment) alone shows that the award was necessary and appropriate." —Thorbjoern Jagland, Nobel Committee Chairman

President Obama and Prime Minister Wen Jiabao of China held an unscheduled meeting on Saturday at the end of an Asian forum to discuss economic issues and China's festering disputes with ...

The dramatic nighttime escape of a blind rights lawyer from extralegal house arrest in his village dealt a major embarrassment to the Chinese government and left the United States, which ...