Farmers enjoys bank card payment services

2011-07-05 19:21:25

A program initiated in April 2009 to give farmers in North Shanxi province bank card payment access has successfully covered 90 percent of the rural households in the province, according to a bank official.

13-year-old boy dies in Beijing subway accident

2011-07-05 19:20:49

A 13-year-old boy on the way to the zoo with his father and sister was killed and 28 others injured -- two seriously -- after an escalator accident at a Beijing subway stop.

China investigates offshore oil spills

2011-07-05 18:14:25

The spill at Penglai 19-3 oilfield in Bohai Bay in East China had caused a "certain" degree of environment pollution to the surrounding area, said the State Oceanic Administration Tuesday, but the leak is under control now. Fishing industry braces for oil-leak impact

Rain-triggered landslide buries five in NW China

2011-07-05 17:23:36

Five people are buried after a landslide caused by continuous rains covered a section of highway in northwestern Shaanxi province, according to local authorities.

Rain-triggered landslide buries five

2011-07-05 17:16:40

Five people are buried after a landslide caused by continuous rains covered a section of highway in Northwest China's Shaanxi Province, according to local authorities.

China to step up crackdown on illegal toll collection

2011-07-05 16:13:10

Local authorities in China have moved to take down unauthorized tollbooths amid a one-year national campaign in response to broad public complaint.

1 dead, 28 injured in Beijing subway accident

2011-07-05 13:49:21

A 13-year-old boy on the way to the zoo was killed and 28 others injured -- two seriously -- after an escalator accident at a Beijing subway stop.

Rainstorms to hit western China, heat lingers in south

2011-07-05 13:36:27

The National Meteorological Center (NMC) has forecast that rainstorms will pelt China's western regions over the next three days while the south will continue to see lingering high temperatures.

Rescue underway to reach 19 trapped miners

2011-07-05 13:31:03

Rescuers are racing to dig through a sludge-flooded tunnel to reach 19 miners who are trapped in a collapsed coal mine in south China for the fourth day, sources with the rescue command center said Tuesday.

Five electrocuted, two injured in north China

2011-07-05 13:30:51

Five people died and two others were injured Tuesday morning in an electrocution accident in north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, local safety authorities said.

Shanghai supermarket bomb attack suspect caught

2011-07-05 10:04:18

A man who allegedly planted a bomb that exploded, without causing injuries, in a supermarket in Shanghai on Monday has been caught, said local police.

Summer rail travel heats up

2011-07-05 09:53:25

Passengers try to stay cool while waiting to board trains at the railway station in Yinchuan, Ningxia Hui autonomous region, July 4, 2011. The summer peak travel season begins as students gear up to go home and tourists start their summer trips.