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5 dead, 20 missing in China factory explosion

1 day ago

The official Xinhua News Agency said rescue work was continuing at the site of Monday morning's explosion in Shandong province's Caofan township.

Men detained after taking 6 schoolgirls to hotel

7 days ago

Xinhua News Agency said Tuesday that a school principal in Wanning city was fired after one of the four girls with whom he spent the night of May 8 in a hotel said he had been intimate with her.

China coal mine explosion kills 12, injures 2

10 days ago

The official Xinhua News Agency says the gas explosion occurred Friday night in Pingba county in Guizhou province.

China party punishes 21 officials in sex scandal

14 days ago

The official Xinhua News Agency said Tuesday that the party's disciplinary body in the central city of Chongqing had stripped former local district party chief Lei Zhengfu of his party membership.

China denies renewed US cyber-attack claims

14 days ago

Wang Xinjun was quoted by the official Xinhua News Agency on Tuesday as saying the Chinese government and armed forces have never sanctioned hacking.

China indicts official in sex tape with corruption

18 days ago

The official Xinhua News Agency reported Friday that prosecutors have indicted Lei Zhengfu, formerly party secretary of a district in the southwestern megacity of Chongqing, for accepting bribes.

Report: Poisoned yogurt kills 2 Chinese children

19 days ago

Xinhua said Thursday that the girls' grandmother found the books and yogurt and took them home on April 24.

26 people feared dead in China bus, ship accidents

64 days ago

The official Xinhua News Agency says 13 domestic tourists were killed and 15 others injured when a bus ran off a road and plunged into a ravine in the southwestern province of Yunnan during a...

China arrests 5 Tibetans for 'inciting' immolation

82 days ago

Xinhua says the five are accused of recruiting three people and encouraging them to self-immolate in late October and November last year, saying their sacrifice would contribute to the Tibetan cause.

China closes porn, content sharing websites

83 days ago

They included sites offering photo and video sharing as well as online gaming, Xinhua said, citing a statement from the State Internet Information Office.It said the office was working with...

Unattended, 5 boys in China die from suffocation

91 days ago

The official Xinhua News Agency says four of the boys were found dead in the barn Monday in Majiang county in the southwestern province of Guizhou, and that the fifth boy died later in a hospital.

Tibetan man sentenced for inciting self-immolation of monk

102 days ago

Xinhua said that Phagpa in 2005 travelled from China to India illegally and received training at "an institute specially created for the 'Tibetan independence' forces of the Dalai Lama clique.

Police in China hold 2 for running over toddler

104 days ago

Xinhua said officials went to the home of Chen Liandi to demand a fine of at least 30,000 yuan, or $4,700, for having the boy, the couple's third child, in violation of family planning rules.

China punishes Tibetans in self-immolation cases

110 days ago

The official Xinhua News Agency said a court in Aba prefecture in the southwestern province of Sichuan announced the verdicts Thursday.

China says 14 guilty of pollution protest violence

110 days ago

Xinhua says the defendants smashed office buildings and jumped on cars.

China elder Jiang Zemin takes a public step back

118 days ago

The official Xinhua News Agency said Wednesday in a brief dispatch that Jiang asked party leaders to group him with other retired elders when announced and seated at major formal events.

Chinese police arrest 7 over self-immolations

126 days ago

The official Xinhua News Agency says a police investigation found that the self-immolation by a 26-year-old in Gansu province's Hezuo city was "masterminded by key members of the 'Tibetan Youth...

Apple CEO: China will be biggest market

130 days ago

Xinhua said Cook did not respond to rumors Apple might be developing a lower-cost iPhone for developing markets such as China.

China starts building new nuclear power plant

134 days ago

The Xinhua News Agency says the 3 billion yuan ($475 million) power plant in Rongcheng, an eastern coastal city in Shandong province, will incorporate advanced safety features developed by...

Overloaded minibus crashes, kills 10 in China

143 days ago

The official Xinhua News Agency says the nine-seat bus was carrying 20 people when it went off a mountain road and plunged into the ravine on Friday.

China sends ship to South China Sea to back claim

144 days ago

The official Xinhua News Agency says patrol vessel Haixun 21, equipped with a helipad, departed the southern city of Haikou for the South China Sea on Thursday.

China court orders Apple to pay in rights dispute

144 days ago

The Beijing No. 2 Intermediate People's Court ruled Thursday that Apple violated the writers' copyrights by allowing applications to be distributed through its store that contained copies of...

Chinese officials suspended after school bus crash

146 days ago

An initial police investigation found that the van was speeding and ended up in a 3-meter (yard)-deep pond, Xinhua said, adding that the principal "drove improperly."

Chinese man drives car into students, injuring 13

147 days ago

Xinhua did not identify the man in its report Tuesday, but said his daughter was killed in a suspected murder case three years ago and he has a history of lodging complaints with authorities.

Van crashes into pond into China, 11 children dead

148 days ago

Xinhua says police have detained the driver for questioning and are investigating the cause of the accident.

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