Safety officials and investigators have blamed poor management and inadequate safety precautions for the coal mine blast that has claimed 104 lives so far in northeast China's Heilongjiang province.

The 12th China-EU summit is to be held on November 30 in Nanjing, the capital of east China's Jiangsu province, according to an agreement reached by the two sides.

A Chinese mainland official on Taiwan affairs said here Thursday that the mainland would work actively for "normalization" of economic relations with Taiwan.

Experts agree the e-book market has huge potential in China but is being undermined by rampant pirate operations.

Police in Anshun, Guizhou province, arrested two of three suspects who allegedly killed a migrant worker, whose phone was used to send a courtship message to the girlfriend of one of the accused last Monday.

Huang Tingxin, the Chinese mainland's last veteran of the D-Day campaign to end the Nazi domination of Europe in 1944 has died. He was 91.