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Beijing: A total of 292 children in Ziyang city, southwest China's Sichuan province, were taken to hospital after eating contaminated food in their school canteen, authorities said on Monday. Authorities said that the students from Yingjie Township ...

ZIYANG CITY, China, April 4 (UPI) -- The first student from Central Primary School in Yingjie Township fell ill and was hospitalized at 7 a.m. Wednesday, China's Xinhua news agency reported. Since then, another 202 students have been hospitalized ...

A total of 203 primary school students in Ziyang, Sichuan province, have been hospitalized with fever, vomiting and diarrhea, local government officials said on Thursday. Fifty of them are being treated at Yingjie township hospital, while 153 others ...

Then-Chinese Premier Zhao Ziyang (C-R) and British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher (C-L) exchange documents on December 19, 1984 in Beijing over the Hong Kong handover. Thatcher was an "outstanding" leader who wisely compromised over Hong Kong's ...

PERSONAL HABITS: She made her own bed and shopped for a present for detained former Chinese leader Zhao Ziyang IT is difficult to separate some of my personal memories of Margaret Thatcher -- mundane but revealing -- from the sweeping judgments of ...

A former British colony, Hong Kong became a self-administered region of China in 1997, and despite pressures from Beijing, remains free of state censorship. In 2012, Hong Kong hosted 34.9 million visits by Chinese nationals, many on shopping sprees.

A group of nearly a dozen Chinese human rights lawyers who attempted to investigate an extralegal brainwashing center in the southeast of the country were violently set upon by guards on May 13, before being handed over to police, who beat them ...

As China announces the investigation of a top planning official for corruption, more high-profile cases are likely to follow as the administration of President Xi Jinping seeks to consolidate power during its first year in office, analysts said on ...

As of May 14, the following search terms are blocked on Sina Weibo (not including the search for user function). Lawyers Surround and Watch Black Jails: On May 13, 11 rights defense lawyers were detained and beaten for attempting to visit a black ...