Two senior Chinese officials – one who led the country’s biggest oil company and the other a deputy party chief in populous Sichuan province – have been convicted of corruption and sentenced to 16 and 13 years in prison respectively.

The world’s only surviving giant panda triplets have finally been named following a worldwide competition: Mengmeng (Cute), Shuaishuai (Handsome), and Kuku (Cool).

A strong earthquake has struck a lightly populated, mountainous area of western China, but there were no immediate reports of injuries or damage.

Police in China are trying to hunt down a pilot who landed on a road and drove into a nearby petrol station to refuel.

A Chinese man abducted more than two decades ago has found his way home thanks to Google Maps, according to a local newspaper.

Forty miners have died in two separate coal mine explosions in south-western China, authorities said.

Rescuers and relief teams struggled to rush supplies into the rural hills of China’s Sichuan province after an earthquake left at least 179 people dead and more than 6,700 injured.

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 commercial van slammed into a truck in north-west China today, killing nine people and bringing the overall death toll to 56 in three big accidents on the country’s notoriously dangerous roads over the past two days.

A moderate earthquake has toppled houses in a mountainous part of south-western China, killing four people and injuring at least 100, state media said.

An 18-year-old Tibetan nun set herself on fire in western China in the latest such protest against Beijing’s handling of the vast ethnic Tibetan regions it rules, an overseas activist group said yesterday.

Two former Tibetan monks set themselves on fire in far western China, in what an activist group said was the latest in a series of self-immolation protests against Chinese rule.

Police in eastern China have broken up a human trafficking ring involving poor migrant couples who were selling their babies, a state-run newspaper reported.

Seven people were killed and 30 others injured when a crowded tourist bus overturned on a mountainous road in south-western China, state media said today.

The world’s oldest panda has died in China at the age of 34.

HEAVY rain across western China has caused more mudslides and flooding, killing at least 29 people and trapping more than 10,500 in the latest natural disasters to hit the country, state media said yesterday.

New landslides killed 24 people and left another 24 missing in China’s remote north-west today as downpours threatened more devastation and made rescue work difficult in a region where more than 1,100 people have died.

A bus in southwest China fell off a cliff after losing control, leaving 13 dead and nine injured.

Work crews raced to drain fast-rising reservoirs on opposite sides of China today, following torrential rains that triggered deadly landslides in several mountain hamlets.

Landslides slammed into three mountain hamlets in western China early today, killing 17 people and leaving 44 missing, while crews drained an engorged reservoir in another part of the country following heavy rains.

A massive landslide in south-west China has killed at least 23 people, and 24 are missing after flash floods in the east, state media reported today.

At least 400 people were killed in a series of strong earthquakes that struck a remote area of China today.

James Cameron's sci-fi epic 'Avatar' is among 10 movies nominated in the Best Picture category for the 2010 Academy Awards, it was announced today.

POLICE arrested nine people in south-west China suspected of trafficking mentally ill people to be murdered in mines across the country in a bid to blackmail mine owners into paying compensation, a local official said.

Police arrested nine people in southwest China suspected of trafficking mentally ill people to be murdered in mines across the country in a bid to blackmail mine owners into paying compensation, a local official said.

More than 30 pandas at a reserve in south-western China face an uncertain future after a chunk of their habitat was destroyed by last year’s powerful earthquake that killed nearly 70,000 people, a report out today said.

AT least 53 people are missing after a landslide hit a county in Sichuan province in China’s south-west.

At least 53 people are missing after a landslide hit a county in Sichuan province in China’s south-west, according to state media.

An earthquake rocked south-west China, killing one person, injuring at least 324 others and collapsing 18,000 homes.

Sections of streets, schools and bridges destroyed during last year’s massive earthquake in south-western China will soon be open to tourists, state media said today.

A sex theme park that featured explicit exhibits of genitalia and sexual culture is being demolished before it even opened, a Chinese government spokesman said today.

The number of schoolchildren who died in China’s massive earthquake last year is still being calculated, an official said today.

ONLY a little more than a quarter of the 70,000 people who died in a massive earthquake that struck Sichuan province in May have been identified, a Chinese official said yesterday, as authorities rushed to prepare stricken areas for the coming winter.

More than 19,000 schoolchildren died in a massive earthquake that struck Sichuan province in May, China acknowledged today for the first time.

Chinese premier Wen Jiabao said the government is partly responsible for the tainted milk scandal that has been blamed in the deaths of four babies and shaken consumer confidence, in a rare admission for a Chinese leader.

At least 30 people were killed when a pair of earthquakes jolted Tibet’s capital and surrounding areas today, the official Xinhua News Agency said.

A FIRE and subsequent stampede at a club in southern China killed 43 people and left 88 injured in the latest incident highlighting China’s abysmal fire safety record.

A Chinese government scientist said a rush to build schools in recent years probably led to building flaws that caused many of them to collapse in May’s devastating earthquake.

Chinese rescue teams carrying tents, quilts and sacks of rice rushed today to reach survivors of an earthquake that killed at least 27 people, turned tens of thousands of homes into rubble and cracked reservoirs.

The Olympic flame approached the final destination of its long and sometimes contentious global tour today, greeted by rapturous crowds in the Chinese capital two days before it officially launches the games.

A rights group said today that a Chinese teacher who posted pictures online of schools that collapsed when a massive earthquake hit Sichuan province in May has been sent to a labour camp for a year.

US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice praised China’s post-earthquake recovery efforts during a visit to the disaster zone today, saying it contrasted with Burma’s reluctance to allow in aid after a devastating cyclone.

Organisers of the Olympic torch relay say the flame will reach Tibet on Saturday in a one-day stop that has been shrouded in secrecy.