18 killed in China floods

The blast occurred at around 2.45 p. m. local time (0645 GMT) on Tuesday in Songyuan city in Jilin province, Xinhua cited government officials there as saying.

Crocodiles and dinosaurs lived together, which means there are probably more fossils buried underneath, Jin Changzhu, a research fellow at the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, said on Friday.

A Chinese court sentenced the ex- Communist Party chief of a rust-belt province that had been hit by massive electoral fraud to life imprisonment for accepting bribes worth more than USD 22 million. A court in the central city of Luoyang on Friday handed down ...

HONG KONG: Smaller Chinese banks that have listed in Hong Kong in the past year are badly underperforming the rest of the market – and their exposure to China's shadow banking system may be a major reason. The lack of appetite for the initial public ...

Five persons have been killed and 89 others injured when a gas pipeline exploded near a hospital in China's northeastern Jilin province. Officials said today that the accident occurred in Songyuan city yesterday when the workers were repairing a section of ...