Beijing will ban the consumption of high-polluting fuels in downtown areas by 2020, the municipal environmental protection authority said.
East China's Jiangsu province, where a workshop explosion claimed the lives of 75 people and injured more than 180, has suspended production at all companies that polish aluminum and magnesium, according to the provincial work safety department.
China is investigating a Canadian couple who ran a coffee shop on the Chinese border with the Democratic People's Republic of Korea for the suspected theft of military and intelligence information and for threatening national security, the Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday.
Mongolian Prime Minister Norov Altankhuyag met on Monday with a group of 100 children whom he had invited from flood-hit Liaoning province during his tour to China last October.
The Shaolin Temple in Henan province will develop a new line of kung fu-themed video games to expand its influence among younger audiences, the temple's management company announced on Tuesday.
Retailers billed it as the Great Singapore Sale. Chinese tourist Zhu Liang bought it, only to regret it afterward.
Thailand hopes to introduce visa-fee exemptions for tourists from the Chinese mainland and Taiwan next week, acting Thai foreign minister Sihasak Puangketkeow said.
Once a backwater in China's often overlooked west, the city of Chongqing in the last two decades has been transformed into a sprawling metropolis where skyscrapers stretch endlessly along the Yangtze River.
On the busy streets of South Korea's biggest Chinatown in Incheon stands Gonghwachun, a Chinese restaurants popular among tourists to the area. "We hold pride in our 100-year history," its sign reads.
High school student Geng Fangdong was doing his homework in Zhaoyang district of Zhaotong, Yunnan province, on Sunday afternoon when his cellphone started beeping.
1. The magnitude-6.5 earthquake that hit Longtoushan township of Ludian county was the largest one in Yunnan since 2000. The province is located on the collision belt of the boundary between the Eurasian and Indian tectonic plates.
A powerful magnitude-6.5 earthquake hit Southwest China's Yunnan province on Sunday afternoon, killing at least 398 people.
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