Chinese authorities say they are investigating a top politician once seen as a candidate for the highest ranks of the leadership. Sun Zhengcai was the Communist Party chief of a major metropolis,...
The Chinese Communist Party's anti-graft watchdog has launched an investigation into a Politburo member who was once seen as a contender for a top leadership post, state media reported Monday. The...
A sudden leadership change in one of China's biggest cities has highlighted President Xi Jinping's ambition to consolidate his grip on power at an upcoming major political gathering, analysts say....
Basketballs, electric scooters and rainbow-coloured umbrellas -- nothing seems out of bounds in China's booming "sharing economy". Where once Chinese consumers would look to shell out on items such...
A Chinese court has ordered a psychiatric hospital to compensate and apologise to a gay man who was forced to undergo conversion therapy -- a ruling hailed by LGBT rights groups. The 37-year-old man...
Suspended more than 120 metres (400 feet) above a gaping chasm, the world's longest cantilevered glass skywalk is delighting and terrifying visitors in China. The v-shaped walkway stretches almost 70...
Five suspended levels and cars going in all directions: a new highway interchange is driving motorists to tears, as they find themselves lost in a concrete maze resembling a plate of spaghetti. After...
A gas leak has killed at least 18 people working in a coal mine in central China's Hunan province, state media reported on Monday. Another 37 miners were rescued and taken to a hospital for treatment...
The first freight train to link China directly to the UK arrived in the eastern Chinese city of Yiwu Saturday after covering over 12,000-kilometres (7,500 miles), making it the second-longest route...
He does not have the fame -- or enormous wages -- of Shanghai-based Carlos Tevez or Oscar, and his nickname would be viewed as offensive by many. But Fernandinho, one of the growing number of...
Liang Shanshan considers herself a mother of two: one child is her biological son, the other is a 16-year-old Chinese teen pop star she has never met. She is a "mother fan" and part of a group of...
Unable to afford a car, Shanghai university student Long Yi faces a lengthy, expensive commute across his vast city but has found a solution in the car-sharing schemes quickly gaining momentum in...
China takes free trade zones (FTZ) up to 11, with seven new FTZs starting operation on Saturday. After an unveiling ceremony Saturday morning, contracts for 60 major projects totaling 80.2 billion...
People in the Chinese megacity Chongqing could be fined for using VPNs to jump over the country's "Great Firewall" that blocks access to forbidden websites from Google to Facebook. The punishment...
It was a top-secret Chinese nuclear facility with a deadly Cold War mission -- to make plutonium for an atomic bomb -- but these days its doors are wide open as a tourist attraction. The cavernous...
Seventeen Chinese coal miners were killed when a lift used to move workers fell down a shaft, state media reported, the latest deadly mishap in the country's accident-prone coal-mining industry. The...
A JAMES Bond stuntman and SAS hero has been killed in an abseil race from a helicopter. Steve Truglia, 54, fell 300ft in China but authorities there are refusing to release further details according...
A highly imaginative graffiti display in a subway station in Chongqing has taken passengers and tourists into wonderland. Located in the downtown area and covering an area of 5,000 square meters, the...
Anti-graft teams have been deployed in 19 provincial-level regions or agencies to uncover corruption, the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection of the Communist Party of China (CPC) said in a...
A company boss is praised by internet users for giving his employees a half-day off to shop during the annual online Singles Day shopping spree, which started on Friday just after midnight....
