AT least 17 people have been killed after an inferno ripped through a busy restaurant in China. The horrifying blaze consumed the small diner in the northeastern city of Changchun on Wednesday during the lunchtime rush. Customers were clamoured inside…
A fire engulfed a skyscraper in the central Chinese city of Changsha, with authorities saying that no casualties had yet been found. The blaze broke out in a 42-floor building housing an office of the state-owned telecommunications company China Telecom, according to…
Thousands of emergency responders are battling to contain fast-spreading wildfires in China's southwestern city of Chongqing amid a weeks-long, record heat wave in the region. The fires, which have been visible at night from parts of the downtown area, have…
At least 17 people were killed and four are missing after flooding hit the central Chinese province of Hunan and a landslide buried parts of several villages in the southern Guangxi region, state media reported. Storms have pummeled Hunan since…
A building collapse one week ago in central China killed 53 people, state media reported Friday as the search of the large pile of debris ended after rescuers found 10 survivors. Authorities said at a news conference that all the…
A Chinese airliner carrying 132 people has crashed in the southern province of Guangxi, according to state media. The China Eastern Airlines Boeing 737 aircraft had 123 passengers and nine crew members on board when it crashed near the city of Wuzhou in…
Beijing At least three people were killed and more than 30 injured in a powerful explosion at a restaurant in the northeastern Chinese city of Shenyang on Thursday morning, according to local authorities. The gas explosion took place in a…
Typhoon In-fa hit China's east coast on Sunday as people living near the sea were evacuated, flights and trains were cancelled and the public was told to stay indoors. Wind speeds off shore reached 60 mph (100 kph) as the typhoon arrived…
A subway station in Zhengzhou, in China's Henan province has flooded after torrential rainfall on July 21. Chinese President Xi Jinping addressed the flooding on Wednesday morning, calling the flood control situation "very severe" and ordering authorities to "prioritize the…
A rescue mission is under way to save 14 workers trapped in a flooded tunnel being built in southern China. Teams are pumping water out of the highway tunnel to find the workers who were caught when it collapsed in…