Yingxiu Township (China), May 16 (Xinhua) With China still reeling under the deadly earthquake that is feared to have killed more than 50,000 people, severity of the catastrophe is slowly surfacing in Wenchuan - the epicentre of the...

Cricket Australia (CA) is contemplating its own version of Indian Premier League (IPL) within two years after the inaugural Twenty20 tournament has become a mega-hit in the...

Beijing, May 16 (Xinhua) China's Ministry of Finance Friday set aside another 1.17 billion yuan ($167 million) for disaster relief work in the wake of Monday's massive earthquake in the...

Beijing, May 16 (Xinhua) A moderate aftershock measuring 5.69 on the Richter scale jolted the Lixian County in China's quake-hit south-western Sichuan Province Friday, the seismological bureau...

Beijing, May 16 (Xinhua) China's Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development has ordered the local authorities to investigate the reasons why school buildings collapsed in Monday's earthquake, an official...

Beijing, May 16 (Xinhua) There had been no minor quakes in the area around the epicentre of the 7.8-magnitude earthquake in China's southwestern province of Sichuan May 12, the provincial seismological bureau said...

China has approached Australian companies to team up for a billion-dollar share raid on giant miner BHP Billiton, news reports said...

Washington, May 16 (Xinhua) The American Red Cross (ARC) has donated $10 million for disaster relief work in China's earthquake-hit southwestern province of Sichuan, the organisation...

Guiyang (China), May 15 (Xinhua) At least 29 people were killed and 14 others injured when a farm truck plunged into a river in the south-western province of Guizhou Thursday, the police...

A south-western Chinese town near the epicentre of Monday's devastating earthquake faced a growing risk of flood Thursday, prompting troops to evacuate as many people as possible while they dug through rubble in the hope of rescuing some of the thousands of people still missing in the...

Like President George Bush, the presumptive Republican Presidential candidate John McCain too has said a new global pact on climate change must include India and China, the 'greatest contributors' to global...

Beijing, May 15 (Xinhua) China has punished 17 rumour mongers in the wake of the disastrous earthquake, the ministry of public security said...

Beijing, May 15 (Xinhua) China Thursday promised it would provide free medical treatment to those injured in Monday's devastating quake that claimed over 15,000 lives and rendered tens and thousands...

Yekatarinburg (Russia), May 16 : Foreign Ministers of Brazil, Russia, India and China (BRIC), the world's emerging and rapidly growing economies, have urged for reforming the United Nations to make it more efficient to deal with the emerging global...

Islamabad, May 16 : Pakistan's National Disaster Management Authority today dispatched a C-130 flight containing relief goods for the quake-affected people of China....

Washington, May 16 : Unusual weather conditions associated with an El Nino event might be a major factor that influenced Ferdinand Magellan's historic circumnavigation of the globe, according to a new research...

Washington, May 16 : A joint University of Melbourne and Royal Children's Hospital study from Australia has found that over 40 per cent of parents have used cough medicine for children younger than two, even though it is not recommended, nor proven effective for children in this age...

Washington, May 16 : If eyewitness accounts are to be believed, pandas had sensed the massive earthquake that shook central China on May 12, with the animals behaving strangely just minutes before the quake...

London, May 16 : Astronomers from UK Universities working with colleagues from Germany and Australia have calculated that the Universe is actually twice as bright as previously...

New Delhi, May 15 : India today offered to send five million dollars in emergency supplies to China, where the official death toll from this week's devastating earthquake has roughly touched 20,000....

China's state-run news agency says a strong aftershock has struck near the epicenter of Monday's earthquake, as authorities have increased the official death toll. Xinhua says the 5.9 aftershock in...

May. 16, 2008 BEIJING - A report says the death toll rose to 43 from the hand, foot and mouth disease virus that has sickened tens of thousands of children across China. A 22-month-old girl from...

Beijing - Nearly 5 million people have temporarily or permanently lost their homes and have been evacuated to other places after the devastating earthquake in China's Sichuan province, the government...

China has begun tallying losses from the calamitous earthquake that struck earlier this week, with estimates ranging to over $20 billion.With the death toll from the disaster forecast to rise as high...

A Catholic seminary in Chengdu was completely destroyed and three persons killed. Human rights activists say that holding Olympics is an insult to the dead and...

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TOKYO (AP) -- Tokyo stocks edged lower Friday after a four-day winning streak as investors sold recent gainers such as precision equipment and electronics...

Beijing to introduce tougher building codes in vulnerable areas. The catastrophe that hit the southwestern province of Sichuan on Monday showed that those measures weren't tough enough. Shaking...

Khademolmelleh Iran's proposed package has been extended to Russia and China and the two countries have announced that they would closely investigate and announce their view on it, said an Iranian...

Children's bags lie in the foreground as a rescue worker carries a body bag near a wrecked school building in Hanwang, Sichuan province. Photograph: Mark Ralston/AFP/Getty A strong aftershock near...

(83 Comments) HANWANG, CHINA -- At first, Tan Keren tried using his bare hands to tear away at slabs of concrete and giant beams to save the most important person in his life: his wife, business...

Taipei - A 20-member Taiwan rescue team headed Friday to China to join Chinese rescuers in looking for survivors of an earthquake in which 21,500 people have so far been confirmed dead. "All of our...

May 16, 2008, 12:30 China struggled to bury its dead and help tens of thousands of injured and homeless today when a powerful aftershock brought new havoc four days after an earthquake thought to...

Okuda, former chief of the Japan Business Federation and now a senior adviser to Toyota Motor Corp., will meet senior officials of the three Middle Eastern countries, it said. His trip, through next...

Singapore - Asia-Pacific Breweries (APB), the makers of Tiger Beer, is expanding production in southern China with the construction of a new brewery in Guangzhou, APB confirmed on Friday. Its joint...

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea expects the long-stalled international negotiations on North Korea's nuclear programs to resume next month, the country's chief negotiator said Friday. ...

A Catholic seminary in Chengdu was completely destroyed and three persons killed. Human rights activists say that holding Olympics is an insult to the dead and...

PHOTOS: Housing Bereft Quake Victims The government said it would investigate why so many school buildings collapsed in the quake — destroying about 6,900 classrooms, not including the...

Seoul - South Korea and New Zealand agreed to strengthen their economic and trade ties and pursue a free trade agreement (FTA), both countries said Friday. The agreement came at a meeting between...

NEW DELHI: In what could cause concerns for India, commercial satellite imagery revealed an extensive nuclear missile site in central China with nearly sixty launch pads for medium-range missiles...

16.5.2008 at 13:26 The Finnish Broadcasting Company (YLE) said Friday that one of its reporters, Pirkko Pöntinen, and a cameraman, Mika Mattila, had been arrested in Henan province in China where...

Gao, the Beijing geologist, said a large number of houses that collapsed probably were put up by farmers themselves. "Many worked their entire lives to build these houses," he said. "When...

-- has become clearer after teams hiked their way through to remote towns cut off by landslides. Amid the desolation there have been small miracles -- a child was pulled alive Friday out of a...

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and General Assembly President Srgjan Kerim have voiced their sorrow and sympathy for the victims of the earthquake that struck south-western China today, killing...

Chinese State Councilor Dai Bingguo met here Friday with visiting Singaporean Foreign Minister George Yong-Boon Yeo, expressing appreciation for Singapore's aid for earthquake victims. Yeo, on behalf...

TOKYO (Reuters) - A U.S. court martial sentenced a Marine to four years in prison on Friday for sexual abuse of a 14-year-old girl on the southern island of Okinawa, in a case that has sparked...

At least eight people have been shot dead during a bank robbery in the Philippines. Seven of the victims were employees of the bank in the town of Cabuyao, south of Manila, and one was a security...

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HONG KONG (MarketWatch) -- Japan's economy expanded at a faster-than-expected pace in the recently-ended quarter, helped by buoyant export growth to emerging markets and a rebound in home...

By Craig Meer and Vincent Shie Republican candidate for US president Senator John McCain took aim on May 12 at China and other industrializing nations on the issue of climate change: "No ...