Cellphone users with early-warning software for earthquakes were notified on Monday afternoon that a magnitude-6.0 quake had occurred in Beichuan, Sichuan province.
Chinese air travelers frequently ignore warnings to buckle their seat belts, even during takeoff and landing, and when turbulence is anticipated, aviation safety experts said.
Foxconn confirmed on Wednesday that two of its plant employees died last week in Zhengzhou, Henan province.
China plans to spend an additional 5 billion yuan ($783 million) to renovate substandard rural housing in earthquake-prone areas, the Ministry of Finance said on Wednesday.
During the last century, the northeast was one of the first regions in China to embrace industrialization.
A stretch of road 4.4 kilometers long and running above the Three Gorges Reservoir area opened on Sunday, with the management authority pledging strict restrictions on vehicles in a bid to prevent the water becoming polluted.
Mengke Bateer, the first Chinese player on an NBA championship-winning team, is retiring from basketball.
The biggest urban apartment complex project in Xi'an, with a projected cost 11 billion yuan ($1.74 billion), has stopped selling homes after a two-year construction delay.
Continuous rainfall and relatively high temperatures are the main reason behind recent reports of blue-green algae in some major lakes in eastern China, according to experts.
The first in a series of 31 confessions of Japanese war criminals from World War II was published online on Tuesday by the State Archives Administration.
A simple tent sits by the seashore in the Henoko district of Okinawa's Nago city. Nearby is the area in the city of Ginowan that has been designated as the new base for US Marine Corps Air Station Futenma.
Liu Yuedong wears three bullet scars - one each in his back, waist and leg - like badges of honor, and his memories of the intense battles he fought in against the Japanese army are as fresh today as when he saw action more than 70 years ago.
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