Chinese railways, roads, airlines and waterways carried a total of 2.81 billion passengers during the 40-day Spring Festival travel rush, known as "chunyun," which concluded on Sunday.
A bus carrying about 30 passengers was kidnapped Monday morning by suspected Nigerian Islamic sect Boko Haram in Tourou, a town in Cameroon's Far-North Region bordering Nigeria, military sources who declined to be named told Xinhua via phone.
Sixteen of the 31 confirmed deaths in the Taiwan TransAsia Airways plane crash were Chinese mainland residents, according to the local disaster response authority.
A Taiwan TransAsia Airways plane crashed into a Taipei river on Wednesday morning, 13 have died and three are in a critical condition, a Xinhua reporter on the scene reported.
Low-cost airline Dublin-based Ryanair is celebrating its 30th founding anniversary with a target to become top ranked airline within 24 months in Britain.
Many people are still trapped in the Italian-flagged ferry which caught fire off the Greek island of Corfu on Sunday and waiting to be rescued on Sunday night.
An American Airlines flight from Seoul to Dallas was diverted to Narita Airport of Tokyo on early Wednesday morning due to severe turbulence, at least 12 passengers sustaining minor injuries, local media reported.
In the latest scandal to taint the image of Chinese tourists abroad, four Chinese passengers grabbed headlines for causing chaos on a Thai budget flight, forcing the aircraft to return to Thailand.
The captain of the South Korean sunken ferry was sentenced Tuesday to 36 years in prison for leaving more than 300 people dead by dismissing his duty of saving passengers.
A tour bus carrying 49 people overturned in Shanghai Monday morning, killing six and injuring 43 others, local authorities said.
Fears that the South Korean ferry sinking accident could become one of the country's worst maritime disasters in two decades have been rising as rescue operations are protracted.
A passenger ship carrying 475 people, mostly high school students, capsized in waters off South Korea's southwest coast Wednesday, leaving at least nine people dead and 287 others still missing, local media reported Thursday citing the country's central disaster and safety countermeasures headquarters.
The Chinese embassy here confirmed Thursday that two Chinese citizens were on board the capsized South Korean ship, but it was still seeking clarification from South Korean authorities.
Malaysia Airlines released a statement in the wee hours of Thursday saying the claims that some families of the passengers on the missing flight MH370 were flown to India instead of Malaysia "is not true."
Malaysia Airlines on Tuesday said it was "shocked" by allegations aired by media against the co- pilot on its missing jetliner of a cockpit security breach in the past.
China has been making all-out efforts to search for the Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 with almost two-thirds of the passengers from China after more than 60 hours since it lost contact.
A potential Beijing subway fare hike is again fueling discussion as political advisors met in the capital city starting Wednesday for an annual session of the Beijing municipal political advisory body.
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