Gov't stands by peaceful approach amid Ayungin tension

OANA) - A 7.6-magnitude quake struck in the sea south of Tonga at 1:19 a.m. Friday Beijing Time, according to the China Earthquake Networks Center. The epicenter, with a depth of 150 km, was monitored at 23.0 degrees south latitude and 177.1 degrees ...

BEIJING, May 23 (Xinhua) -- China's meteorological authority on Thursday issued a blue alert, the lowest level in a four-color warning system, for rainstorms in the west and south. From Thursday night to Friday, some areas in the provinces of Gansu, ...

Over 1,000 ducks were fished out dead from a river in Sichuan province in south west China.

A key progress story is unfolding on the global level. Five countries, Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa— together known as the BRICS nations—have made two significant decisions, namely to establish a new development bank (NDB) to finance long ...

A man from south west China's Sichuan province, abducted and taken to Fujian province at the age of five, has finally found his way home. This comes after spending years trying to work out where his parents are from. And he says he could not have ...

Kunming, the provincial capital of Yunnan province in south-west China, is known as the "spring city" because it has a singularly pleasant climate. But as well as being a nice place to live, it is also an ambitious city. Yunnan is a scenic and ...

Chinese Premier Li Keqiang Wednesday linked growth in his country's restive west with that in sluggish Pakistan, saying the two sides wanted to create an "economic corridor" to boost development. Chinese Premier Li Keqiang (L) speaks withPakistani ...

South Africa has pledged to help Nigeria make the automotive sector the West African nation's flagship industrial target. Currently German car manufacturer BMW has a plant at Rosslyn near Pretoria. About 80 percent of the BMWs produced there are for ...

ABOARD HUAIHUA WARSHIP - A People's Liberation Army (PLA) Navy fleet returned to a military port in East China's Fujian province on Tuesday after finishing a 16-day training session in the West Pacific Ocean. The training session included combat ...