Satellite-based tracking system will be installed in all school buses in China's northwest Gansu province in a bid to boost security amid a surge in road accidents involving students.

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Senior US and North Korean diplomats began talks on Pyongyang's controversial nuclear programme on Thursday, in the first substantive contact between the two nations since leader Kim Jong-Il died.

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A Chinese student is hoping to become a heroine for women around the world by launching an occupy movement of her own - in the men's toilets.

Fed up with long queues for ladies', Li Tingting made hea

Authorities in China have shut down a total of 7,846 websites involved in illegal commercial activity, the government said.

The ministry of public security took the step as part of a nationwide campa

Investigators in China's Hebei province are shocked after coming across a bizarre incident in which a woman's corpse was married twice.

During this year's Spring Festival, a family surnamed Wu sold t

An explosion at a steel plant in northeastern China killed 13 people and injured another 17, a company official said on Tuesday, in the latest industrial accident to hit the country.

The blast happen

China rebuked Iran on Monday for stopping oil sales to British and French companies at the weekend, calling for renewed efforts at dialogue over an escalating stand-off over Tehran's controversial nuc

China is set to surpass India as the world's top gold consumer this year, the World Gold Council (WGC) predicted.

The demand for gold in China, the world's largest producer, rose by 20 per cent to 76

At least 28 people have been killed and dozens injured in three bus crashes in one day in southern China, state media reported on Sunday.

A bus overturned on a mountainous road in southwestern Yunnan

A cargo ship sank off China's southeastern coast on Saturday, drowning eight crew members and leaving the other two missing.

A spokesman of the maritime rescue centre said by noon rescuers had saved