Getting ready to travel to the US on a fellowship, blind Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng spoke to American lawmakers for the second time in a week and gave a detailed account of his alleged persecut

China may need a back-up plan to stop economic growth being cut short by a surprise dip in demand at home and abroad that suggests monetary policy easing steps taken since the final quarter of last ye

A woman at a Chinese hospital assaulted a nurse after suspecting that an operation she had undergone 16 years ago there affected her sex life.

The incident occurred in China's Jiangsu province, addin

China's central bank cut the amount of cash that banks must hold as reserves on Saturday, freeing an estimated 400 billion yuan for lending to head-off the risk of a sudden slowdown in the world's sec

Seven people were killed and three injured on Sunday when a fire broke out at a hotel in southwestern Japan, a media report said.

The fire occurred at Hotel Prince in Fukuyama city at around 7 a.m.

Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama has spoken of a threat to his life from Chinese agents, saying there were reports that Tibetan women are being trained to harm him.

The Dalai Lama's office bas

Forty people were killed when a brief but violent hailstorm and torrential rain swept through a mountainous region of northwest China, the local government said on Sunday.

Eighteen others remained mi

A 27-year-old Chinese woman, who was ranked among the top in a civil service test, was eliminated from the race because she was an ‘introvert’.

Huang Hong had cleared the China Insurance Regulatory C

The death toll from hail and rain storms in a mountainous area in northwest China has risen to 37 while 19 people remained missing.

The storms had affected 358,000 people in Minxian county in Gansu

A man in China jumped out of his moving car to save his two-year-old daughter who had fallen out at an intersection. The driverless car eventually rammed into a tree.

The baby just suffered cuts and