Security was heightened in the city of Hotan, northwestern Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region Tuesday, a day after a fatal clash between policemen and rioters at a police station left at least four people dead. Updated…
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Workers inspect the escalators outside the Tianjin Railway Station on July 12 after an accident killed a boy in Beijing. Photo: CFP An outbreak of escalator and elevator accidents earlier this month in several major…
BEIJING – Water storage tanks will be built along some underpasses in the capital to collect rain in an attempt to prevent them from being flooded by thunderstorms, the municipal urban planning authority said. The…
A platform door at a Shanghai Metro subway station broke into pieces on its own, about 7:00 am Tuesday, xinmin.cn reports. The Laoximen station, where the incident occurred, is a transfer station between Lines 8…
Our China story started in the early 2003, when we decided to adopt. After assessing many domestic and international adoption programs, we chose China. We gathered our paperwork and it was submitted to the China…
Air China, the country’s flag carrier, launched non-stop flights from Chengdu city to Xinjiang’s Kuerle city on Tuesday, China National Radio’s website (cnr.cn) reported. Carrying 119 passengers, the first flight from Chengdu of Sichuan province…
The number of Chinese Internet users hit 485 million at the end of June, with microblogging and group-buying posting the highest user growth rates, a Chinese government Internet statistical body said on Tuesday. The number…
Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping vowed to crush any attempt to undermine stability in Tibet in a speech on Tuesday marking 60 years since China cemented control over the remote Himalayan region. Mr Xi spoke…
A clash at a police station that left at least four people dead in western China’s restive Xinjiang region was ‘an organised terrorist attack’, a government official was quoted saying in state media on Tuesday….
China executed two former vice-mayors from two booming eastern cities for taking millions of dollars in bribes, the Supreme Court and state media said on Tuesday, as the government strives to show it is being…