China blocked web searches on Saturday for the name of leader-in-waiting Xi Jinping, a day after cutting access to Bloomberg sites following the agency's publication of a report on his family's wealth

China's Civil Affairs Ministry says mudslides caused by heavy rains have killed 50 and left another 42 missing.

The national agency said in an online statement Friday that storms have ravaged 11 prov

At least 20 people in China were killed on Friday when two trucks collided and sent petrol into a timber mill below the road, causing a massive blaze, authorities said.

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Six members of China's Uighur minority tried to hijack a plane flying from a restive city in the far-western Xinjiang region on Friday but crewmembers and passengers thwarted them, authorities said.

China's factory sector contracted for an eighth straight month in June, with export orders and prices turning in their weakest showing since early 2009, a private-sector survey showed on Thursday.

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Seventeen people were killed and 28 others injured when a long-distance bus they were travelling in plunged into a ravine in China's eastern Fujian Province early on Wednesday.

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Authorities in northwest China have ordered the arrest of an elementary school teacher who allegedly sexually assaulted eight girl pupils, the youngest aged 10, a state-backed newspaper said on Tuesda

Shanghai Shenhua have offered Didier Drogba 200,000 pounds ($314,000) a week to play for the club, a salary that would make him the best paid player in China, state media said on Monday.

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A manned Chinese submersible set a new record for the country's deepest sea dive on Friday, over 6,000 metres, showing Beijing's technological ambitions as it also readies for its first manned space d

A Tibetan man died on Friday after setting himself on fire, the latest in a series of anti-government suicide protests in China's Tibetan autonomous prefecture.

"A person died of self-immolation Fri