Man fires at outdoor teahouse, killing 3
2009-01-12 08:56:17
Three men were killed and another wounded Saturday afternoon in a shooting spree at an outdoor teahouse in southwest China's Sichuan Province, local police said Sunday.
Five dead, five injured in coal pile slide
2009-01-12 08:54:49
Five people were killed and another five injured as coal fragments slid from a pile at a coal yard in southwest China's Yunnan Province on Saturday.
Earthquake-destroyed school rebuilt with aid from Air Force
2009-01-12 07:26:53
A middle school damaged in the May 12 earthquake in Shifang City of Sichuan Province in southwest China began reconstruction on Sunday, with assistance from the Chinese Air Force.
People in quake zone prepare for Spring Festival
2009-01-08 15:14:16
Lanterns ushering in the Chinese Lunar New Year of the Ox are hung at a temporary housing area for those who lost their homes in the May 12 earthquake in Mianzhu, Sichuan province January 7, 2009
Two killed at Shanghai rail construction sites
2009-01-09 09:36:50
Two people died here on Thursday in two separate accidents at rail construction sites, local officials said.
Panda bites tourist at Beijing zoo
2009-01-09 09:07:48
A panda at the Beijing zoo bit his third tourist in two years - and this time, his jaws had to be forced open to free the man, who had jumped in to retrieve his son's toy.
2 killed at Shanghai metro sites
2009-01-09 07:37:21
Two men were killed and six others were injured here yesterday in two separate incidents at subway construction sites.
Passengers swarm at Guangzhou Railway Station
2009-01-08 13:52:20
Xinjiang mulls free senior high school education
2009-01-08 08:22:23
Senior high school education might soon be made free of cost for students in Kashgar, Hotan and Kezilesu Kirgiz prefectures, the three most underdeveloped regions in southern Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, officials said Wednesday.
Snow back in central, southern regions
2009-01-08 07:37:49
Heavy snow has returned to large parts of central and southern China, which were hit by killer storms last year, over the past two days.
Beijing bans entry of live poultry
2009-01-08 07:37:06
Beijing authorities have banned all live poultry from other parts of the country from entering the capital, after a woman died from the H5N1 bird flu virus on Monday morning.
Village fire destroys 92 houses in SW China
2009-01-06 07:41:18
One fifth of a village in southwest China's Guizhou Province was destroyed in a fire Monday afternoon.