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China's meteorological authority Thursday forecast rainstorms for parts of central and eastern China over the next three days.
Tropical storm "Conson" has started to affect China's southernmost island province of Hainan Thursday morning with strong gales, while 600 km away on the South China Sea.
A bomb threat that forced a flight from Urumqi in China's Xinjiang to make an emergency landing Wednesday night was a hoax, Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) said Thursday.
Young people are discovering new methods of avoiding long queues at the Expo by using the easy-access entrances designed for the convenience of the disabled and elderly.
Once nestled in a land fertile with waterways and lush with trees, Baxin village, like other areas near the mountainous city of Shaoguan, is facing an acute agricultural shortfall, producing fewer crops than at any time since the 1990s.
Chinese soldiers Wednesday used explosives to blast part of a leaking dike on a swollen branch of the Yangtze River in East China, preventing the flooding of riverbank villages. East: heavy rain in Anhui 
Central: Rainstorms in Hubei South: storm Conson in Hainan SW: landslides
More than 10,000 people were forced to evacuate their homes in East China's Jiangxi province Wednesday morning after heavy rainfalls triggered flash floods and overtopping of three reservoirs, flood control authorities said.
A man may receive a death sentence for killing six family members -- including his own children -- in Beijing last year, after psychiatric assessments proved him competent to accept criminal responsibility, a court said Wednesday.
A tap water pipeline in downtown Guiyang, Southwest China's Guizhou province, burst Wednesday, flooding streets and cutting off supplies for more than 1,000 households, local authorities said.
Teachers in primary and middle schools are banned from smoking in front of students, in order to set a good example on a campaign to build smoking-free campus, a recent regulation released by the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Health states, the Beijing News reported on Wednesday.
Local government officials Tuesday declared an East China community's drinking water safe after a mining company contaminated a river 10 days ago.
Rain-triggered landslides have left 37 people dead and 37 missing in China's Yunnan, Sichuan and Hunan provinces by Tuesday, local authorities said.
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