BEIJING (Reuters) - A gas explosion in a coal mine in China's northeast has trapped 139 miners underground, the latest accident to hit ...
Canada's world silver medallist Joannie Rochette skated to the top of the women's leaderboard at Skate Canada on Friday with a flawless short ...
It's chilly and wet back home in Sichuan province, but Chen Ming cheerfully tees off in shorts on a sunny palm-lined golf course on China's southern Hainan island. "The weather here is very good for playing golf -- there's the sun, the ...
Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao on Friday congratulated the European Union for creating the new posts of president and foreign policy chief, calling it a "step forward" for EU integration. At a summit in Brussels, European leaders named Belgian Prime Minister Herman Van ...
China has ordered more accurate reporting of swine flu fatalities after a doctor renowned for helping expose the scale of the 2003 SARS outbreak said deaths were being deliberately underplayed. The order issued late Thursday on the health ministry website appeared to ...
China has ordered more accurate reporting of swine flu fatalities after a doctor renowned for helping expose the scale of the 2003 SARS outbreak said deaths were being deliberately underplayed. The order issued late Thursday on the health ministry website appeared to ...
World steel output rose 13.1 percent in October from the level of output a year earlier, driven largely by production in China, the World Steel Association said on Friday. Production came to 112 million metric tons, the association said, adding that following ...
Banned Chinese director brings gay romance film to Hong Kong A prominent mainland Chinese director banned by Beijing from making movies brought his new gay romance film to Hong Kong on Friday for what is likely the last of a handful of ...
Hollywood disaster movie '2012' draws in Chinese patriotic fans When the apocalypse comes, China will save the world. Or at least that's how Chinese audiences are interpreting "2012," Hollywood's latest blockbuster disaster movie. "It's about time the world sees us as a ...
US ambassador criticizes negative coverage of Obama's China visit by US media Washington's ambassador to Beijing hit out Friday at negative U.S. media coverage of President Barack Obama's visit to China, saying it failed to take into account important progress on many ...
The United States called Friday for the release of Xue Feng, a China-born US citizen who has been held in the Asian nation for two years on state secrets charges. "We encourage China to grant Dr Xue humanitarian release and immediately deport ...
A Chinese cleaner removes trash from a bin near a poster advertising the Hollywood blockbuster 2012 at a theater in Beijing, China, Friday, Nov. 20, 2009. Chinese movie goers are flocking to the movie that appears to portray China as a savior ...
