CHINA: Upset by a delayed flight, at least two Chinese passengers decided to open emergency exit doors in protest as the plane was taxiing, forcing it to abort takeoff and landing them in jail instead, police said yesterday.

The son of actor Jackie Chan pleaded guilty in a Beijing court to providing a venue for drug users and was sentenced to six months in jail.

An explosion in a coal mine in eastern China trapped 29 workers underground, state media reported.

China has sealed off parts of its north-western city of Yumen after a resident died of bubonic plague last week, state media said.

Apple Inc assured Chinese customers that location tracking on its iPhone can’t be used to identify activity of individuals, a day after China’s state-owned television broadcaster said the software poses a security risk.

The murder of a woman at a fast food restaurant in China has sparked a national outcry after it was revealed she was beaten to death for allegedly refusing to give her telephone number to members of a banned religious group.

China’s largest online travel agent has named Ireland as its ‘best potential destination’ this year.

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China’s first moon rover has touched the lunar surface and left deep traces on its loose soil, state media reported, several hours after the country successfully carried out the world’s first soft landing of a space probe on the moon in nearly four decades.

China has safely carried out the world’s first soft landing of a space probe on the moon in nearly four decades, state media said.

China will attempt the world’s first soft landing of a rover on the moon in nearly four decades today, the latest step in the country’s ambitious space programme.

China is cracking down on the number of home-grown TV talent shows such as versions of 'The Voice' and 'The X Factor' which can be broadcast.

It’s been so hot in China that people are grilling bacon and eggs in frying pans on manhole covers, or even directly on pavements sometimes heated up to 60C.

A man has set off a homemade bomb in Terminal 3 of Beijing International Airport, Chinese state media said.

Police officers threw knives up to crew members inside the burning wreckage of Asiana Airlines Flight 214 so they could cut away passengers’ seat belts.

A powerful earthquake struck the steep hills of China’s south-western Sichuan province today, leaving at least 156 people dead and more than 5,500 injured, nearly five years after a devastating quake wreaked widespread damage across the region.

A powerful earthquake struck the steep hills of China’s south-western Sichuan province today, leaving at least 113 people dead and more than 2,600 injured, nearly five years after a devastating quake wreaked widespread damage across the region.

At least two people were killed today when a powerful earthquake jolted China’s Sichuan province near the same area where a devastating quake struck five years ago.

A large landslide has trapped 83 workers in a gold mining area in Tibet, Chinese state media said.

A minivan carrying 15 children to kindergarten plunged into a roadside pond in a rural area of eastern China, killing 11 children, state media and an official said.

Television audiences across China watched an anarchist antihero rebel against a totalitarian government and persuade the people to rule themselves.

The Chinese government has ordered a two-month, nationwide safety campaign on its railway system after a collision between two bullet trains killed at least 39 people.

A bullet train crashed into another high-speed train in eastern China, killing at least 35 people, injuring 191 others and once again raising safety concerns about the country’s fast-expanding rail network.

A two-year-old Chinese girl fell 10 floors from her family’s apartment window and survived after being caught by a woman passing by, state media reported today.

The World Health Organisation (WHO) offered reassurances today that the radiation risk from Japan's nuclear crisis remains highly localised, with no sign it threatens anywhere else in Asia.

All 29 miners trapped in a flooded Chinese coal mine were lifted to safety today, ending a day-long rescue drama, state media reported.

Dozens of anxious relatives and friends of 11 miners trapped underground by an explosion in central China gathered outside the site today as rescuers battled tons of coal dust in a bid to reach them.

A dawn explosion in a Chinese coal mine killed 20 and trapped 17 workers underground today in the country’s central region, a national work safety official said.

CHINA launched an unmanned lunar probe yesterday, the latest milestone for an ambitious space programme that aims to put a man on the moon later this decade.

At least one airline had questioned the safety of night-time landings at the relatively new airport in north-east China where a passenger jet crashed and burned while trying to land at night on a fog-shrouded runway, killing 42 people and injuring 54, it was revealed today.

China has just been declared the world’s second biggest economy, and now it has a traffic jam to match.

AT least 42 people died when a passenger jet overshot a runway in north-east China yesterday and burst into flames.

At least 42 people died when a passenger jet overshot a runway in north-east China today and burst into flames.

Landslides killed at least 80 people and left an estimated 2,000 missing today in north-west China, the latest disaster caused by widespread flooding in the country.

The news agency run by China's ruling Communist Party launched a global English-language television channel today as part of efforts to expand its influence abroad.

A landslide caused by heavy rains has trapped at least 107 people today in south-west China, and there is little hope for their survival, a local official said.

China’s biggest national news agency today announced plans to launch its global, English-language television news network as part of efforts to expand the communist government’s media influence abroad.

RESCUERS pulled three people alive from the rubble yesterday, five days after an earthquake killed nearly 2,000 people in a Tibetan region of western China.

Rescuers pulled three people alive from the rubble today, five days after an earthquake killed nearly 2,000 people in a Tibetan region of western China.

A four-year-old girl and a Tibetan woman have been pulled alive from the rubble of an earthquake in western China more than five days after they were trapped.

Badly-needed aid finally arrived in a remote western Chinese town shattered by a massive earthquake, including enough food and shelter for tens of thousands of homeless people.

The death toll from a 6.9-magnitude earthquake that hit western China rose to around 300 today, with 8,000 people said to have been injured.

Dozens of Chinese coal miners were pulled out alive today after being trapped for more than a week in a flooded shaft, sparking cheers among hundreds of rescue workers who had raced to save them and almost given up hope.