Seventeen people were killed and 33 others were injured after a gas blast rocked a plant in south China's Guangdong Province on Wednesday morning, local authorities said.
Six people from east China's Zhejiang Province have contracted the H7N9 strain of avian flu this winter, local authorities said in a statement on Wednesday.
A Chinese court sentenced former senior economic planning official Liu Tienan to life imprisonment on Wednesday.
Chinese scientists have extracted a virus known as M1 that could kill cancer cells without harming normal cells, giving hope for future research and development of cancer therapies.
As an increasing number of government organizations embrace the digital age by going online, website security for their domains are at high risk for cyber attacks, a survey by the National Computer Virus Emergency Response Center has discovered.
A line in northwest China's Qinghai Province has resumed services after a passenger train was stranded due to a locomotive malfunction, said railway authorities Monday.
Chinese police have arrested nearly 1,000 suspected members of the illegal quannengshen (almighty god) cult, according to the Ministry of Public Security.
Police in east China's Zhejiang Province have identified a 34-year-old man as the suspect behind a bus fire that injured 30 people, including the arsonist himself, on Saturday.
Free trade zones (FTZs) will not flourish everywhere in China, a senior official with the Ministry of Commerce said on Monday.
At least 26 people have been confirmed dead and 10 others are missing after rainstorms in several provinces in south and central China, according to reports from local flood control authorities.
Tourists ride camels as they visit the Mingshashan and Crescent Lake in northwest China's Gansu on May 18, 2014.
Police in east China have detained 60 people over their violent and rumormongering behavior during protests over the construction of a waste incinerator.
Two preschools at the center of the antiviral drug scandal in Xi'an, northwest China's Shanxi Province, have had their licenses revoked, the local government confirmed on Saturday.
Four former officials of a hospital in northwest China's Shaanxi Province where an obstetrician was accused of trafficking seven babies went on trial Monday for dereliction of duty.
A family of four died in a house fire in east China's Zhejiang Province on Wednesday night, local authorities said Thursday.
Six people were killed in a fire in Qingyuan City, south China's Guangdong Province on Sunday, local authorities said on Monday.
There have so far been 12 reports of injuries after two earthquakes shook Songyuan City in northeast China's Jilin Province on Thursday morning, local authorities said.