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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Tibet's exiled political leader Lobsang Sangay on Tuesday said a spate of self-immolations in China was a strong message being sent by oppressed and desperate people who want to assert their freedom.

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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India and China on Thursday agreed to step up their defence and security dialogue and work to take steps to ensure that the two countries achieve a USD 100 billion trade target by 2015.

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China has spent nearly $1 billion on an ultra-deepwater rig that appears intended to explore disputed areas of the South China Sea, one of Asia's most volatile hotspots and where the United States is

India will soon start exporting rice to China as the two countries have resolved the quality and other regulatory issues.

Briefing reporters about the outcome of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's

The discovery of a double-headed sex toy, which was mistaken for a mystical rare fungus, brought national notoriety to a Chinese village and TV program this week.

Villagers from Liucunbu, a rural com

Asia's top companies are less upbeat on their business outlook than in the first quarter, with mounting concern over the eurozone crisis and a slowdown in China's growth, according to the latest Thoms

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.

The accident took pla