Sources: AFP via Geo TV Reuters
The Kyodo news agency reports that the Prime Minister of Japan Shinzo Abe sent a ritual offering to the controversial Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo that could complicate relations with China and South Korea. 2014-10-17
At least 25 people are dead in Hong Kong and southern China after Typhoon Usagi passes through with the storm having killed eight people in the Philippines. 2013-09-23
Nine people die following an explosion in a coal mine in Binzhou City in China's Hunan Province. 2011-12-18
The Chinese state-run "Global Times" newspaper dismisses international criticism over the arrest of artist Ai Weiwei. 2011-04-6
China launches its largest crackdown on dissenters in years, according to activists, amid unrest in the Middle East. 2011-03-31
Landslides in the village of Wama near Baoshan in China kill at least 12 people with 36 missing. 2010-09-3
Seven people are killed and fourteen injured in a bomb attack in China's Xinjiang province. Although the region has recently been embroiled in violence including Muslim separatists and majority Han Chinese, the attack is being investigated as a criminal case. 2010-08-19
Two passenger train carriages are swept into a river by floods in Sichuan, China. 2010-08-19
Floods in northeastern China kill more than 100 people and sweep 3,000 chemical-filled barrels into the Songhua River. 2010-08-1
South Korea and the United States pressure China to allow UN action against North Korea. 2010-05-24