The 915,000 yuan ($142,000; £87,000) total is double the initial offer made to the families of the 40 victims. There has been widespread anger at the official response to the disaster. Wenzhou commemo...

Two knife-wielding men hijacked a truck and killed its driver, before ramming the vehicle into a crowd and getting out and attacking the pedestrians, leaving seven people dead and 22 injured in northw...

North Korea says China and its Red Cross have decided to give Pyongyang relief aid to help recover from recent flooding. The North’s official Korean Central News Agency said Sunday that Chinese Presid...

Beijing - Xu Maiyong and Jiang Renjie, former vice-mayors of Hangzhou and Suzhou respectively, were executed on Tuesday morning for taking huge amounts of bribes and abusing their official powers, acc...

Pakistan, which is grappling with an energy crisis, is going to seek assistance from China to implement 19 energy projects to meet water and power requirements in a meeting of Pak-China Joint Energy W...

First China Aircraft Carrier under Building 2011. A serving Chinese military general is citing India's capabilities in his efforts to edge the government to have more than one aircraft carrier. Genera...

Tencent's Headquater Building in Shengzhen 2010. Social games maker Zynga is partnering with Tencent Holdings Ltd, the Chinese Internet company, to launch its first game in mainland China as it tries...

China's top search engine Baidu Inc forecast revenue well ahead of Wall Street's expectations as large advertisers increased spending, sending its shares up around 7 percent. Baidu , which has increas...

Nissan Motor Co plans to double its automobile production in China, its biggest market, to more than 2 million units a year by the end of 2015 as it shifts its focus to emerging countries, Japan’s Nik...

The deadly collision of two bullet trains in eastern Zhejiang province on Saturday, in which 39 people were killed and another 192 injured, has raised fears not only over the safety of China's fast ex...

China's first manned deep-sea submersible completed a Pacific Ocean dive to 5,057 meters (16,591 feet), surpassing current U.S. capabilities and setting a milestone in a race to explore for potentiall...

A court in North China's Hebei province on Friday sentenced Zhang Chunjiang , former deputy general manager of China Mobile, to death with a two-year reprieve, after he was found of taking bribes. The...