A dispute over property has emerged as a possible reason behind the attack on a kindergarten in northern China that left seven children and two adults dead.
Neighbours in Shaanxi province reported seeing a heated argument on Wednesday between the suspected attacker, Wu Huanming, and the woman who ran the Shengshui Temple kindergarten in Nanzheng county, [...]
North Korea’s leader, Kim Jong-il, is visiting China amid heightened tensions with South Korea.
Neither Chinese nor North Korean officials have confirmed his visit, but pictures have emerged of the reclusive leader in the Chinese port city of Dalian, and he is expected to meet senior Chinese officials in his first overseas visit since a suspected [...]
The multi-billion-dollar 2010 World Expo has officially opened in Shanghai, China’s commercial capital, in what the country hopes will highlight its rising global influence.
More than 180 countries and 57 international organisations are expected to showcase their culture in the six-month long event themed around sustainable development.
Many are doing in so in pavilions with radical architecture.
Friday’s [...]
Five children have been injured in a school in eastern China after a man attacked them with an iron hammer before burning himself to death.
Wang Yonglai, a farmer, broke down a side gate of the Shangzhuang primary school in Weifang City with his motorcycle before the attack, the state-run Xinhua news agency said.
Friday’s attack in [...]
At least 31 people, including 28 children, have been wounded after a man carrying a knife attacked a kindergarten in Jiangsu province in eastern China, state media said.
Five of the injured pupils were in critical condition in a Taixing city hospital following the attack on Thursday, the official Xinhua news agency reported.
Most of the injured [...]
The death toll from last week’s earthquake in China’s northwest Qinghai province has climbed to 2,039.
Another 195 people are still listed as missing following the magnitude 6.9 quake which struck Yushu county last Wednesday, the official Xinhua news agency said.
The Chinese cabinet declared Wednesday a national day of mourning for victims of the quake. National [...]
Rescuers are struggling to free people trapped under rubble after a powerful earthquake and strong aftershocks devastated a remote mountainous region in China’s western province of Qinghai.
The death toll stood at 617 early on Thursday, with more than 10,000 people injured, state-run media and local quake relief officials said.
The ministry of civil affairs said 15,000 [...]
At least 400 people have been killed after a strong earthquake struck China’s western province of Qinghai, officials and state media said.
Another 8,000 people were believed to have been injured as homes collapsed leaving residents of the remote mountainous area trapped under the rubble.
The quake, measured at magnitude 7.1 by the China Earthquake Administration and [...]
More than 110 miners have been rescued from a flooded coal mine in northern China, amid hopes that scores more could still be alive after more than a week trapped underground.
The survivors were taken to hospital after being carried out of the Wanjialing mine in Shanxi province, where 153 had been trapped for more than [...]
Rescuers in China are preparing to make another attempt to save 153 workers who have been trapped in a flooded coal mine for the past week.
Teams of divers and other rescue workers were expected to enter the mine in Shanxi province on Sunday, but poor visibility is likely to hamper the operation.
Dozens of medical workers [...]