Giant panda Guo Guo, an evacuee from the southwest China earthquake, gave birth to twins on Sunday, becoming the first panda to bear cubs since the disaster in Sichuan Province on May 12. She is also the first panda to give birth ar ...

Rescuers have recovered another two bodies in the East China Sea, bringing the death toll from a boat sinking of Friday to three, with one person still missing. A body was found at 11:55 p.m. on Saturday and another at 9:07 a.m. on ...

A railway trunk in north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region reopened to traffic on Sunday morning after an eight-day suspension triggered by floods, local authorities said. The railway, a west to east line linking Jining with ...

Chinese engineers have begun installing lightning rods in 650 primary and secondary schools in underdeveloped areas to prevent casualty and economic loss in schools, as part of a national disaster reduction effort. The work is expec ...

Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping met with Chief Executive of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) Donald Tsang here Sunday morning. Xi arrived in Hong Kong Sunday morning from Shenzhen on a three-day inspection tour. ...

Heavy rainstorm that swept through the Enshi Prefecture of central China's Hubei Province since Friday has left at least eight people dead, two missing and about 785,000 affected. Tan Yunju, a woman in Wanzhai Township, Xuan'en Count ...

Senior official of the Communist Party of China (CPC) He Guoqiang met here Friday evening with Mauritian Prime Minister Navinchandra Ramgoolam. He, a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Commit ...