China : An explosion at Fenghuangling Coal Mine of Zhanhe District in Henan Province in central China yesterday left at least four people dead, four buried under debris and thirty four others injured.
Rescuers are still trying to ascertain whether any workers have been trapped below ground by the explosion. Work safety authorities said rescue work [...]
China : Rescue workers have dug up the bodies of 42 people killed in a rain-triggered landslide in southwest China, with hopes for 57 others missing all but gone, state press said.
The hundreds of rescuers on Sunday gave up digging through the debris of the 28th June landslide that buried scores of homes in Dazhai [...]
After years of search by top monks, a 4-year-old Tibetan boy was today chosen as the sixth ‘Living Buddha’ in the Tibetan capital Lhasa through a lot-drawing system of two candidates.
It was conducted by the 11th Panchen Lama who is being projected by China as the Dalai Lama’s successor.
The ceremony took place in Jokhang Temple [...]
Beijing has just thrown open the doors to a secret and very powerful institution where many of the China’s elite have studied.
Top officials in Chinese companies, the bureaucracy and the government have virtually all spent time at the one of the Communist Party’s schools.
The most prestigious and powerful of these is the sweeping campus in [...]
New Delhi : The National Security Adviser, NSA, Mr. Shivshankar Menon will visit China tomorrow to discuss a host of issues.
He is going to Beijing as special envoy to the Prime Minister of India.
During his four-day visit, Mr Menon, India’s special representative for boundary talks, is expected to discuss the boundary issue with China’s Vice [...]
China: Nine miners have been trapped in the Shanxi province after a flood in the coal-producing heartland.
Official Xinhua news agency today reported safety officials had made contact with eight of the group at the mine adding that they would be rescued soon.
Twenty-three miners were around 1,400 metres underground at the time of the flood last [...]
China has banned its 2.3 million soldiers from Internet blogging. According to the state media reports, a new regulation prohibits the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) from creating websites or blogs, citing confidentiality concerns.
The official Xinhua news agency says, China operates vast Internet censorship, dubbed the “great firewall of China”.
Websites deemed sensitive by the government are [...]
A day after the United States sought clarifications from China over its nuclear deal with Pakistan, Beijing has asserted that the sale of two nuclear reactors to Islamabad is completely according to international obligations.
“China and Pakistan have maintained cooperation in recent years in the civilian use of nuclear energy. This cooperation is in line with [...]
The United States has asked for clarifications from China over its nuclear deal with Pakistan, under which it would assisting the later to set up two new nuclear power plants.
Talking to reporters here, State Department spokesperson Philip Crowley said that Beijing must clarify that the deal has been approved by the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) [...]
Chinese authorities have detained a 23-year-old man wanted in connection with the January 31 murder of Indian-origin taxi driver Hiren Mohini in Auckland.
The man, named in Auckland District Court files as Zhen Xiao, was located and detained by Chinese authorities in Shanghai last week.
The officer in charge of the homicide investigation, Detective Senior Sergeant Hywel [...]