BEIJING (Reuters) - A court in the city of Chongqing has charged six people with working together to blackmail government officials by recording videos of them having sex, the official Xinhua news agency reported on Wednesday. Full story
BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese authorities discovered on Friday the first case of a new strain of bird flu in the eastern province of Fujian, signaling the spread of the virus which has killed 23 people in China, the official Xinhua news agency reported. Full story
BEIJING (Reuters) - China will send its first aircraft carrier, the Liaoning, on a voyage on the high seas for the first time within a year, the state-run news agency Xinhua said on Friday. Full story
BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese President Xi Jinping has offered condolences to the family of a Chinese graduate student who was killed in the attack on the Boston Marathon and to another student who was gravely injured, the Xinhua news agency said on Thursday. Full story
BEIJING (Reuters) - North Korea has told foreign embassies to consider the possibility of evacuating if tensions flare, China's official Xinhua news agency cited diplomatic sources as saying on Friday. Full story
SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Two people in Shanghai, one of China's largest cities, died this month after contracting a strain of avian influenza that had never been passed to humans before, the official Xinhua News Agency reported on Sunday. Full story
A firefighter holds a ladder as people climb down at the site of a hotel fire in Xiangyang, Hubei province, April 14, 2013. At least 11 people have been confirmed dead and 50 others injured in the fire on Sunday morning, Xinhua News Agency reported. REUTERS/China Daily (CHINA - Tags: DISASTER TPX IM
A firefighter carries a girl from the site of a hotel fire in Xiangyang, Hubei province, April 14, 2013. At least 11 people have been confirmed dead and 50 others injured in the fire on Sunday morning, Xinhua News Agency reported. REUTERS/China Daily (CHINA - Tags: DISASTER TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY) CH
ATTENTION EDITORS - VISUAL COVERAGE OF SCENES OF INJURY OR DEATHRescuers try to move a victim after a passenger bus plunged into a ravine off an expressway on Monday, in Baoshan, Yunan province March 18, 2013. Local authorities said thirteen people died and 15 others were injured in the accident, a
ATTENTION EDITORS - VISUAL COVERAGE OF SCENES OF INJURY OR DEATHRescuers investigate after a passenger bus plunged into a ravine off an expressway on Monday, in Baoshan, Yunan province March 18, 2013. Local authorities said thirteen people died and 15 others were injured in the accident, according
Rescuers look for survivors after a bus fell off the Jingzhou Yangtze River Bridge in Jingzhou, Hubei province March 12, 2013. At least 14 people were killed and nine injured when a double-decker sleeper coach fell off the Jingzhou Yangtze River Bridge in central China's Hubei Province on Tuesday ev
Firefighters try to support a tilted house with wood after a 5.5-magnitude earthquake hit Eryuan county, Yunnan Province, March 4, 2013. According to Xinhua News Agency, the earthquake on Sunday afternoon has injured 30 people, while 55,000 people affected by the quake. Latest statistics shows about
