A cave-in in an unfinished iron mine killed three construction workers in East China's Anhui province late Friday, local authorities announced Saturday.
A Taiwanese man was arrested Saturday for allegedly being member of a gang that lures people in the Chinese mainland to transfer money, Thai media reported.
The interim leader of Kyrgyzstan Roza Otunbayeva appealed to Russia on Saturday to send troops to help quell the violence in the southern part of the country.
China's top economic planner Saturday forecast a "mild" year-on-year rise in the consumer price index (CPI), a main gauge of inflation, in June, resulting in an average CPI increase of around 2.6 percent in the first half.
An 18-month-old Chinese girl who repeatedly excreted nails maybe suffering from pica, an eating disorder characterized by persistent cravings to eat nonfood items such as dirt or cigarette butts, doctors said Saturday.
Chinese Buddhist monks and archaeologists Saturday revealed what they believe to be a part of the skull of Sakyamuni, the founder of Buddhism, in east China's Jiangsu province.
The Chinese mainland purchased 800 tons of bananas from Taiwan in late May, after sales in the island stalled earlier that month, a mainland spokeswoman said Saturday.
Four tourists died and two are missing after a pleasure boat capsized on a lake in Southwest China's Tibet autonomous region Thursday, the local government said Saturday.
Negotiations on the long-awaited Economic Cooperation Framework Agreement (ECFA) between the Chinese mainland and Taiwan have made pronounced progress and are approaching completion, said a Taiwan affairs spokeswoman Saturday.
Chinese President Hu Jintao met his Kazakh counterpart Nursultan Nazarbayev in Astana Saturday for talks on ways to enhance the development of the strategic partnership between China and Kazakhstan.
China and Norway signed here Friday eight documents on cooperation in finance, energy resources, environmental protection and culture.
A Chinese mainland spokeswoman said Saturday that it was possible the mainland's Taiwan affairs chief Wang Yi would visit the island if the time and circumstances were appropriate.