China's Sichuan Province has suffered a severe aftershock which has triggered created fresh damage to buildings and severe...

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...

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...

Dharamsala, May 16 : Tibetans-in-exile in Dharamsala prepares to host parallel Olympics beginning May 22 with the aim to give its youth a sporting exposure without focusing on the Chinese atrocities on their fellow...

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 : 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...

New York, May 16 : China's main centres for designing, making and storing nuclear arms lie in the shattered earthquake zone, and leading Western experts are looking for signs of any damage that might allow radioactivity to escape....

New Delhi, May 16 : People of all religious groups organised a prayer meet, seeking solace for the victims who died in Myanmar cyclone, in Chinese earthquake and in Jaipur serial...

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....

Three people in Jiangxi province remain in critical condition from the virus, Xinhua reported Friday. Most cases of hand, foot and mouth disease in China this year have been blamed on enterovirus...

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...

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...

BEICHUAN, China (AP) - A Chinese state news agency says rescuers have pulled a student to safety, 80 hours after the student was trapped in the debris of a school in Monday's massive earthquake. The...

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...

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...

MANILA, Philippines -- The Bureau of Immigration (BI) has deported two Chinese nationals it said were involved in the hoarding and illegal trade of rice, and for violating the conditions of their...

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...

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) -- The U.S. Olympic Committee's aggressive plan to start its own cable network is moving forward, though officials are giving no indications that the network will be on...

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...

(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...

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...

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...

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...

BEIJING (AP) -- The Sichuan government says the official death toll from this week's powerful earthquake in the Chinese province has risen to 21,500...

News ) - A strong aftershock sparked landslides Friday near the epicenter of this week's powerful earthquake, while some survivors were pulled from rubble after being buried for four days.The first...

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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...

(newser) – A powerful aftershock struck today near the epicenter of this week's earthquake, wreaking more havoc as China struggled to bury its dead and care for thousands of homeless and hungry...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- Hong Kong's economy surprised analysts Friday, as the government announced better-than-expected 7.1% annualized growth in gross domestic product for the first...

BEICHUAN: China working tirelessly amid the mangled mess of steel and concrete in what was the town of Beichuan, Liu Wenbo has helped save 700 people. But not his...

SHIFANG, China -- Peng Hogan had just sat down for lunch when the earth began to shake. After pushing a slow-moving friend out the door to safety, he rushed to a nearby elementary school that...

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...

Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao returned to Beijing Friday morning from quake-hit Sichuan Province in the southwest, where he has been directing the rescue and relief efforts since the 7.8-magnitude...

A 23-year-old nurse was rescued at 2:23 p.m. on Friday from a collapsed town hospital in southwest China's Sichuan Province, four days after the earthquake on Monday that could claimed more than...