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It was in August 2008. Eji Lhaze, the youngest of three children in an ethnic Yi family in Liangshan Yi autonomous prefecture of Southwest China's Sichuan province, had dawdled about in Chengdu, the provincial capital, for two years.
Eight people were missing when mud-rock flow caused by heavy rain drowned a dormitory building at a chemical plant in southwest China's Sichuan Province early Sunday.
Rescuers have dug 300 meters into the main shaft of a coal mine in south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, where a cave-in trapped 19 workers and killed three on Saturday.
Two people died and 41 others were injured in a pileup that involved 11 vehicles on an expressway in northwest China's Shaanxi Province Saturday, police and witnesses said Sunday.
Heavy rain will fall in most parts of China later Friday, according to the National Meteorological Center (NMC).
Beijing was drenched in downpour Friday morning, and the weather bureau forecast heavy rain will continue in the coming 12 hours.
At least four people have been confirmed dead and another 11 injured in a gas explosion that occurred at a factory in East China's Jiangsu province on Thursday morning, according to local police.
Shanghai Dazhong Transportation Group joined hands with www.Taiwan Taxi.com.tw by signing an agreement on Monday to provide the taxi-ordering service for tourists from the city and the island.
The heaviest rainstorm this summer pounded the capital city on Thursday afternoon, causing flight delays and cancellations not only in Beijing but nationwide.
China's high-speed urban development has created a potential new industry for big city suburbs. City dwellers in need of leisure activities and farmers in need of new profit engines have led to the startup of agri-tainment projects around the country.
Four people, including a child, died and two others were injured in an automobile accident in East China's Zhejiang Province on Wednesday.
Heavy rains have swept grasslands on the China-Mongolia border's eastern section, lifting the threat of a prairie fire spreading from Mongolia to north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region.