China needs at least three aircraft carriers to defend its interests, a general said, days after the state media broadcast footage of its first carrier in a rare public mention of the project.

"If we

Chinese banks could withstand a worst case scenario of a 50 per cent drop in home prices, according to stress tests conducted by regulators, a state media report said on Saturday.

Chinese railway officials have blamed 'design flaws' in signalling equipment for a high-speed train crash in which at least 39 people were killed, the official Xinhua news agency said on Thursday.

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As many as 72 multi-millionaires in China have either died since 2003 of unnatural causes or have died young, a media report said on Sunday.

They all had personal assets exceeding 100 million yuan (

A toddler was rescued about 21 hours after a crash involving two high-speed trains in eastern China killed at least 43 people and injured more than 200 others, state media reported on Sunday.

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A Chinese high-speed train derailed on Saturday when it was hit by another express, state media said, throwing two carriages off a viaduct and killing at least 32 people.

The derailed train had been

"Run! You run! It's okay if grandma dies," a woman shouted at her grandson after a high-speed train crash in China's Zhejiang province.

The woman, however, survived the accident that left at least 3

A nine-year-old schoolboy was abducted, killed, chopped up and then his kidnappers used a meat grinder to mince his body, before throwing it in a river in China.

The three suspects are facing kidnapp

Two former vice mayors of China's Hangzhou and Suzhou cities were executed on Tuesday for bribery, the China Daily reported.

It said the Supreme People's Court approved the death sentence given to Xu

China on Saturday urged the US to immediately withdraw a decision to arrange US President Barack Obama's meeting with the exiled Tibetan leader Dalai Lama.

"The issue regarding Tibet concerns China's