Former Chelsea striker Didier Drogba is not a transfer target for Chinese Super League champions Guangzhou Evergrande, coach Marcello Lippi has said.
A Tibetan man died on Friday after setting himself on fire, the latest in a series of anti-government suicide protests in China's Tibetan autonomous prefecture.
Eleven people were killed and 59 others injured in a pile up on a highway caused by collision of several vehicles in eastern China. Several vehicles collided into another on a section of expressway in China's eastern Anhui province on Saturday night, rescuers said.
A Chinese court on Thursday awarded suspended death sentence to a Tibetan Buddhist monk and a 10-year jail term to his nephew for "inciting" people to commit self-immolations opposing Chinese rule in Tibet.
The display of India's military strength, specially the intercontinental ballistic missle Agni-V, has been highlighted by the Chinese official media in Beijing on Saturday.
The new strain of bird flu which hit several parts of China has spread to Taiwan as it reported the first case while the World Health Organisation on Wednesday said the deadly H7N9 virus is far "more lethal" because of its ability to spread easily from birds to humans.
Tensions between China and Japan over disputed islands in the East China Sea intensified on Tuesday after two armed Chinese maritime vessels reached close to the area protected heavily by the Japanese coast guard.
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The accident took place on Thursday evening at Jiamusi railway station when most of the passengers were ready to get off the train and fell under the impact of collision, the officials told state-run Xinhua news agency.
China on Sunday lauded Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari's visit to India, saying better ties between the two nuclear-armed neighbours will benefit both countries and bring stability in the region.
Over 35 Chinese fishermen, detained by Sri Lanka for allegedly poaching in the country's waters were released on Monday within 24 hours of their arrest.
Chinese authorities have arrested 1,065 suspects over Internet-related crimes, including spreading rumours of a coup last week, after the sacking of an influential Communist Party leader. As many as 1,065 suspects have been arrested and 208,000 online "harmful" messages deleted as part of an intensive nationwide crackdown on Internet-related crimes conducted since mid-February, state run Xinhua news agency reported.
Ending months of jockeying for power, China's ruling Communist Party is all set to select 371 members for its top policy body, the Central Committee on Wednesday at the end of its week-long once-in-a-decade leadership Congress being held in Beijing.
young Tibetan died on Saturday after setting himself on fire in north-west China, in the seventh such case in the last four days, during which anti-government protests have been stepped up in Tibet amid the once-in-a-decade leadership change at the Communist Party of China's Congress. The man set himself ablaze in front of a monastery in the city of Hezuo in the Tibetan autonomous prefecture of Gannan in southern Gansu province, the state-run Xinhua news agency reported.
Two former Chinese soccer chiefs have been banned for life after they were jailed in June for accepting bribes while Shanghai Shenhua have been hit by a points deduction for next season, the Xinhua News Agency reported on Monday.
China on Tuesday executed four drug smugglers and sentenced 15 others to death sentence as the United Nations observed International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking.
China produced the most gold in world last year, making it the largest producer for the sixth straight year even as it remained the second largest consumer of the yellow metal after India.
The Gini coefficient, which reflects the wealth gap between rich and poor, was at 0.474 level for China in 2012 -- well above the warning levels, a report has said.
Two Chinese surveillance ships on Friday entered the waters near disputed islands claimed by Tokyo and Beijing for the first time after they were bought by Japan from private parties.
Asia's largest helicopter, built by China and weighing about 13 tonnes, on Thursday received the stamp of approval from the Civil Aviation Administration of the country.
All-weather friends, China and Pakistan on Thursday pledged to strengthen their military ties and step up their defence cooperation to a "new level" as Pakistan's Army Chief General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani held talks with top Chinese military officials in Beijing.
Xi, 68, holds China's all three power centres -- General-Secretary of the CPC, Chairman of the powerful Central Military Commission which is the overall high command of the military, and the Presidency is set to complete his second five-year tenure next year.
Panchen Lama, being groomed by China to rival exiled Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama, on Wednesday stepped out of the Chinese mainland for the first time to attend an international Buddhist conference in Hong Kong.
The wife of disgraced leader Bo Xilai was on Monday handed a suspended death sentence by a Chinese court for the murder of British businessman Neil Heywood.
Ten people were killed and 27 injured in a dam burst in China due to heavy rains caused by typhoon Haikui which affected lakhs of people and toppled over 7,000 houses.
The Chinese government has initiated a major campaign to clean-up fabricated online information spread on major Twitter-like microblogs after rumours stirred up worries about a possible coup recently.
Chinese officials have told their Olympic badminton team leader and disgraced players to make a public apology following the deliberate throwing of matches at the London Games, the Xinhua news agency said on Thursday.
A Tibetan teenager on Thursday committed self-immolation even as China unveiled its once-in-a decade new leadership, led by Xi Jinping, to rule the country. This is the ninth suicide to have taken place since the week-long 18th Communist Party Congress started its session to elect its new leader on November 8.
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The bus was carrying about 50 passengers, official Xinhua news agency said quoting the fire-fighters
The Sichuan-Tibet Railway will be the second railway line into Tibet after the Qinghai-Tibet Railway project. It will go through the southeast of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, one of the world's most geologically active areas, according to the Chinese official media.
BRICS countries - Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa - should combine their "huge potential" to better coordinate on issues such as the world economy, the democratic and equitable world order and global governance reform, Singh told China's Xinhua news agency.
Blind Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng, who was at the centre of an extraordinary diplomatic crisis between China and the United States, on Saturday left for New York with his family after the Chinese government granted them passports. Chen, along with his wife and two children boarded a flight to Newark, near New York, after being taken from a Beijing hospital to the airport.
The death toll from the second coal mine explosion in China in the last four days rose to 15, taking the toll in the twin accidents to 59.
The rescuers have retrieved 34 bodies so far and six miners were pulled out alive from Wednesday night till Friday morning, a working team sent by the State Administration of Work Safety told state-run Xinhua news agency.
Japan's Nozomi Okuhara will be awarded the women's singles badminton bronze medal after China's Li Xuerui pulled out of their clash with a knee injury, Japan's Kyodo news agency reported on Thursday.
The high-profile trial of the wife of disgraced Chinese Communist Party leader Bo Xilai, for murdering a British businessman, turned out to be a one-day affair, with court saying she had admitted guilt and the verdict would be announced soon.
A Chinese vessel was hijacked by pirates in the Gulf of Oman on Friday. The cargo ship belonging to a Nanjing company was hijacked at about 9:30 am local time (1030 IST) in the Sea of Oman near the Iranian port Chabahar, state-run Xinhua news agency reported.
China on Thursday dismissed reports about the death of former president Jiang Zemin as "pure rumour", after days of intense speculation about his health.
The explosion, which was caused by a liquefied petroleum gas leak shattered windows in nearby buildings, blew away a bus stop sign and destroyed several cars parked in the neighbourhood, according to a fireman at the scene, state-run Xinhua news agency reported.
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