According to Chinese news agency Xinhua at least 24 persons have been killed in a deadly earthquake of 6.1 Richter scale in Sichuan province of China. The epicenter of the quake was about 50 km southeast of downtown Panzhihua. The exact location of the place is 26.2 degrees north latitude and 101.9 ...

The Zhongba county located in western China's Tibet region witnessed strong quake tremors late on Monday, informed the country's Earthquake Networks Centre. It is reported that the quake took place at 9.22 pm and that it was so strong that even Gerze and Coqen counties in the region felt the sharp ...

It seems China is again marking space for itself in Coco Islands of Myanmar. After the recent visit of senior Chinese naval officers to improve facilities at the islands, India is up and alert all of a sudden. On June 25, in a secret visit, a Chinese naval delegation led by Col Chi Ziong Feng and a ...

Terrorists attacked the paramilitary camp in the Kashgar region of China’s far western Xinjiang province on Monday, August 4, which resulted in the death of 16 security officer and five attackers. Officials informed that the terrorists arrived in two trucks, mowing down the fences of the ...

Russia is going to sign a key agreement with its communist neighbour China for handing over the control of the two disputed islands the coming week. For this Sergei Lavrov, the Russian Foreign Minister, will fly down to China on July 21- July 22 to sign the necessary documents and let go the ...

The US Presidential hopeful, Barack Obama has announced that he will not attend the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics unless China makes ‘serious concessions’ on the Tibet issue. By stating so, Obama has taken a jab at the current US President George W Bush, who has conceded ...

More than 57 people died and eight were missing in flood in southern part of China according to the state media report. Besides these deaths, more than 1.27 million people have been forced to flee their homes across nine provinces, including Sichuan which has not even come up against recent earth ...

A blast in a coal mine in northern China on Friday, June 13, 2008 has resulted in 27 miners losing their lives, apart seven others who were left trapped inside. In was on Friday morning that the explosion happened in the Anxin Coal Mining Co located in northern China’s Shanxi province. At ...

The Foreign Minister of Germany Frank-Walter Steinmeier who is presently visiting China urged it on Friday, June 12, 2008, to convene further deliberations with the representatives of the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader, Dalai Lama. The German foreign Minister and his Chinese counterpart, Yang ...

 
China and Taiwan have agreed upon for regular flights from each other’s lands. This landmark deal is a great breakthrough for both the nations as they have strain relationship since 1949. These regular flights would be weekend charter; nevertheless a big step towards bringing ...

96 year old Ji Xianlin, who translated the Ramayana into Chinese, was conferred the Padma Bhushan by external affairs minister Pranab Mukherjee on Friday evening in Beijing. Ji is one of China’s leading Indologist, who translated the Ramayana from Sanskrit to Chinese during the Cultural ...

The 5,500 children, whose parents are dead or missing after the monstrous earthquake hit China, now have a ray of hope. Many couples in the country are now coming forward to adopt the orphaned children. The plight of the children has prompted many parents to offer care and support to these ...

China revealed recently that it is relaxing its one-child policy for parents affected by the May 12 earthquake. The Chengdu Population and Family Planning Committee, which overseas the policy in the capital of Sichuan province revealed that the couples whose only child was killed or severely ...

Chinese soldiers and engineers are presently trying to drain the Tangjiashan Lake in the Beichuan Country of China, as it is feared that its rapidly rising waters may submerge the nearby towns trying to recover from the recent earthquake disaster. The Tangjiashan Lake happens to be one of the 35 ...

The martial arts screen hero 54 year old Jackie Chan has decided to make a movie on the recent earth quake in China. He said that there are so many touching stories and through this movie he would be able to depict to the whole world what had happened in China on the day. According to Chan the ...

China has shown its unhappiness over the meeting of British Prime Minister Gordan Brown and Tibet spiritual leader the Dalai Lama. The high-profile meeting was held at the London residence of Archbishop of Canterbury. The venue was decided keeping in mind that it was not a political meeting rather ...

Newly elected Russian President, Dmitry Medvedev is on his first visit to China after assuming office from Friday, May 22, 2008. The Russian President is going to meet President Hu Jintao and other important Chinese leaders for talks which are likely to be focused on trade negotiations. By visiting ...

China has voiced a willingness to enter into reconciliation with the East Asian island of Taiwan after it declared on Thursday 22 May that it wants the latter to be their own boss. This is a clean signal that China is at present in no hurry to bring Taiwan back into its fold. Two days after Taiwan ...

Top officials of China monitoring the recovery work of the massive quake that hit the country on 12 May have been quoted by the state run Xinhua News Agency as saying that efforts to provide relief to the over 12 million victims stands at a very ‘critical point’. Vice Premier Li Keqiang ...

The Chinese government has appealed the international community to provide it tents in order to house the survivors of the deadly earthquake that hit the country the previous week. The request for tents comes following the recent weather forecast which predicted that the disaster zone may witness ...

According to China's transport ministry, the aftershocks and mudslide as a result of the China's earthquake which hit southwestern province of Sichuan province has killed atleast 200 relief workers. These workers were traveling in five vehicles when the mudslide overtook their vehicles resulting in ...

A 61 year old Chinese woman was rescued on Monday, May 19, 2008 after being trapped for nearly 164 hours under the rubble. Li Ningcui was saved alive at 10.40 am from beneath the rubbles in the seat of Beichuan County in China. The sixty one year old lady was discovered by the rescuers at 9.48 am ...

The President of China, Hu Jintao has publicly offered his thanks to the international community for all the aid that has been pouring into the country to help out victims of the recent powerful earthquake. ‘I express heartfelt thanks to the foreign governments and international ...

Woes continue to afflict China one after another lately. After a powerful earthquake measuring 7.9 magnitudes struck the country recently, a county near the epicenter was ordered to be evacuated on Saturday, 17 May as it was feared that a lake would burst its bank and overflow. This has made ...

This could be a concern for India. Commercial satellite images have revealed an extensive nuclear missile site in Central China with nearly sixty launch pads for medium range missiles which are capable of striking Russia as well. These images, from Google Earth show the various kinds of launch ...

China has registered the fastest pace of retail sales record since 1999 and it is a clear indication that the heightened domestic consumption will act like a cushion to the world’s fourth biggest economy against an export deceleration. The statistics bureau has reported that retail sales in ...

The worst earthquake to have hit China in the last three decades on Monday, May 12, 2008 will result in a massive death toll, according to latest official reports. The death toll by Tuesday is feared to have climbed more than ten thousand. Still, thousands of people are believed to be trapped under ...

In order to tame inflation in China, it seems Beijing will have to do much more and that too probably at the price of dwindling growth and employment. On Monday 12 May, the Chinese National Bureau of Statistics announced that the consumer price index has escalated to 8.5 per cent in April in ...

An earthquake measuring 7.8 on Richter scale struck China's Sichuan province on Monday, May 12, 2008, killing 5 children and injuring more than 100 people. The earthquake created panic among the people as they rushed out of their houses. Xinhua, the official Chinese news agency said that the deaths ...

Chinese President Hu Jintao had to face sharp criticism on Thursday, May 8, 2008 over China’s stand in Tibet outside an elite Tokyo University. The Chinese President is on a five day visit to Japan, a first in last ten years by a Chinese head. The Chinese President inside the Waseda ...