A Chinese authority says the local unit of ConocoPhillips has found nine oil spill sources amid intensifying pressure on the company to clean up oil spills in the Bohai Bay. The North China Sea branch of the State Oceanic Administration …
A Chinese state media report says a fire on a double-decker bus that killed 41 people last month was caused by flammable chemicals that were being illegally transported on board. Xinhua News Agency says investigators found that the chemicals directly …
Towering waves from a tropical storm threatened to hit a chemical plant in a Chinese port city, raising fears it might lead to a toxic chemical spill, a Chinese state media report said Monday. Waves as high as 65 feet …
Chinese leaders on Wednesday called for more openness in government after a high-speed train crash triggered widespread public anger at authorities over the lack of transparency in handling the accident. Chinese state media published a circular from the Cabinet calling …
Doubts about China’s breakneck plans to expand high-speed rail across the country have been underscored by a bullet train wreck that killed at least 38 people. One train rammed into the back of another that had stalled after being hit …
The latest Monthly Cat Recap report, released by Aon Benfield, the global reinsurance intermediary and capital advisor of Aon Corporation, revealed heavy flooding in China last month directly impacted at least 37 million people, displacing around 1.6 million residents and …
Cyber criminals are outwitting national and international legal systems that fail to embrace technological advances, a top U.S. official said on Friday, demanding a cross-border campaign to combat the security threat. “Most countries don’t even have a legal framework that …
A buildup of volatile gas hampered rescue efforts in one Chinese coal mine and water continued to pour into another as emergency crews raced to reach 42 miners and others trapped Sunday for a second day, officials and state media …
A moderate earthquake struck southwest China on Monday evening, causing some injuries and damage, state media said. The quake measured at a magnitude of 5.2 hit near the Yunnan province town of Tengchong, 1,550 miles (2,500 kilometers) southwest of Beijing. …
China’s supreme court has ordered judges across the country to issue harsher sentences, including the death penalty, to people convicted of food safety violations as the government struggles to clean up the nation’s food supply after repeated scandals. The Supreme …