01:23 The city of Weihui is still suffering from severe urban water-logging due to the unprecedented rainfall that hit central China's Henan Province last week. In resp
China's last nine impoverished counties, all in southwest China's Guizhou Province, have eliminated absolute poverty, the provincial government announced Monday, meanin
Yang Dalian, 48, is a villager in southwest China's Guizhou Province. Every noon, she goes to her son's classroom and takes him back for lunch in a wheelchair. Yang's
At least seven people were killed and four others injured in an explosion at a factory in India's northern state of Uttar Pradesh on Sunday, a local district administr
Torrential downpours left three people dead while 12 others are missing in southwest China's Sichuan Province, local authorities said Saturday. Intense rain lashed par
A villager in southwest China's Yunnan Province has handed the parrot that he has been petting for six years to the police. He obtained the parrot, a blue-and-gold mac
Sinadingzhu, 51, has been living all his life in a small village in Diqing Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in southwest China's Yunnan. Over the decades, he has witnesse
Cambodian Prime Minister Samdech Techo Hun Sen on Tuesday declared the cancellation of traditional New Year celebrations, scheduled on April 13-16, in order to curb th
A forest fire was put out in the Biji Village in Binchuan County, southwest China's Yunnan Province. (Photo courtesy of local forest and grassland fire control headquar
Deng Xianhe, a villager of Tujia ethnic group in central China, cast off poverty last year. He invited a local poverty alleviation official to his new house to celebra