The rooster hadn’t even stopped his crowing when the police arrived at my Uighur host’s courtyard in rural Turpan one early spring morning in 2008. Although they spoke calmly, almost apologetically, the uniformed Uighur officers demanded that the...
In a conversation on Weibo, Yang, 50, told me about the loss of her 24-year-old daughter, Yuxi, her only child, to COVID-19. She was grieving, of course, but she was also seeking justice for what she viewed as an avoidable death. She showed me a...
Didi Chuxing, China’s wildly popular ride-sharing service, said on Wednesday that it would overhaul its app and its safety and security practices, after reports that a passenger had been raped and killed by her driver.
A well-known Chinese climber has died while performing one of his trademark daredevil skyscraper stunts.
Police in China have detained 18 suspected members of a banned religious cult, state news agency Xinhua said. The group is notorious for some of its members beating a woman to death in a McDonald's restaurant in 2014 after she refused to give...
Xi’s quest to make his nation a military player on the world stage provokes soul-searching as China absorbs its first combat casualties in decades
The State Administration of Work Safety ordered an investigation into the blast, adding that “those responsible must be strictly punished”
El Nino reaches Central China, flood controll efforts reach a critical state....
Being a photojournalist involves reacting to breaking news, a dedication to long-term projects, and everything in between. This month’s showcase of work by Chinese photographers published in Chinese media underscores this range of angles: from...
The death toll has risen to 34 with four people still missing after a landslide in Taining County in east China's Fujian Province on Sunday.
Chinese regulators have begun an investigation into the Internet giant Baidu due to misleading medical advertising.
A Chinese college student recently died of cancer after receiving questionable treatment from a hospital advertised on Baidu.
More than 1.2 million people die in traffic accidents every year across the world.
A 4-year-old boy was killed after getting trapped in an escalator at a subway station in the southwestern city of Chongqing.
Mujigae was the strongest typhoon to make landfall in at least six decades.
So far more than 1,000 firefighters, 151 fire engines and a drone have been dispatched to the blast site.
Sodium cyanide has now been detected in the sewage and leakage has been confirmed.
Eleven people died in a bus crash after the vehicle fell off a highway bridge in north-eastern China.
Four days after the ship, the Oriental Star, flipped over in a ferocious storm, leaving 442 dead or missing.
On the morning of March 16, 48-year-old Huang Shunfang went to her local hospital located in Fanghu Township in the central Chinese province of Henan. Her doctor...
