Beijing, China (CNN) — Twenty-nine miners trapped in a flooded mine in China were rescued after more than 30 hours, with crews lifting them out in rapid succession, state television reported Monday.

BEIJING — A day after a devastating fire gutted a 28-story Shanghai apartment tower, China faced angry questions on Tuesday about whether this nation’s breakneck construction boom had sown the seeds of similar accidents in years to come.

Emergency teams have been pouring into western China’s Qinghai province, a day after a deadly earthquake devastated the mountainous region. Thousands of homeless people have spent the night in freezing temperatures. Officials say 617 people died...

A gas explosion tore through a state-run coal mine in northern China on Saturday, killing 42 people and leaving 66 others trapped underground as rescuers worked hastily to save them. China’s mines are the world’s deadliest, and the blast...

A TOP China air force commander has called the militarisation of space an “historical inevitability”, state media said today, marking an apparent shift in Beijing’s opposition to weaponising outer space. In a wide-ranging interview in...

China is taking the first step towards ending its one-child policy with the authorities in Shanghai encouraging thousands of couples to have a second baby. For the first time in 30 years, officials in the country’s economic capital have urged...

Recently, Beijing announced new procedures to “give an effective guarantee” to rural citizens that their land rights would be respected by “standardising” arbitration procedures. This is explicit recognition that rural unrest...

Since the imposing of United Nations sanctions against North Korea after its second nuclear test on May 25, everyone has been looking toward China for its response. Publically, China has been insisting that it is with the United Nations and will impose...

China has said it will continue with its plans to force every computer in the country to run a controversial filtering program that will further restrict the activities of web surfers. Officials at the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology...

Xu Jue, the mother of student protester Wu Xiangdong who was killed during the Tiananmen crackdown 20 years ago, has been prevented by police from visiting her son’s grave to mourn his death, a human rights watchdog said Thursday. The Information...