The official Xinhua News Agency said the blast hit a mine in Pingdingshan city. According to the reports, a store of gunpowder kept underground at the Xingdong Number 2 Mine had detonated while 72 miners were working. Following the accident, some...

Visitors can smell this village long before they see it. More than 100 dump trucks piled high with garbage line the narrow road leading to Zhanglidong, waiting to empty their loads in a landfill as big as 20 football fields. In less than five years,...

The 20-year-old student spoke softly but firmly as she described how a dispute over grades led to her rape at an unofficial jail. She had been expelled from college because of poor exam scores, so she went to the capital city to petition the Chinese...

Shanghai is urging eligible couples to have two children as worries about the looming liability of an ageing population outweighs concerns about over-stretched resources, a city official said on Friday. The policy marks the first time in decades...

China has detained 59 people in Tibet for spreading rumours and trying to stir up racial hatred and incite violence, state media reports.They are also accused of downloading

A rare condition still haunts the poorest villagers on the Tibetan plateau but improvements in nutrition and grain handling could help eradicate it, the head of a Belgian group fighting Kashin-Beck disease said on Tuesday.

Until age 13 or 14, sperm is not fully formed, increasing the risk of infertility or birth defects. Sperm may be extremely healthy in older teens, who are famous for their potency. But risky teen behavior may put sperm at risk.

t’s now time to panic. Somehow between “How about my place?” and “8:00?,” you managed to blurt out “I’ll make you dinner.”

A pre-dawn collision Monday between two passenger trains in eastern China killed at least 43 people and injured 247, a state news agency reported. Witnesses said a train traveling from Beijing to the coastal city of Qingdao derailed and hit a second...

Chinese students have started to use the Internet to hit back at the Western media’s alleged biased coverage of unrest in Tibet, echoing views expressed by the Beijing government.