More than 300 fans gathered in Shanghai to welcome Ivory Coast striker Didier Drogba on his much-anticipated arrival on Saturday.
Angry families of people killed in last weekend’s train crash in eastern China gathered to mourn on Friday, directing ire at the Railways Ministry for
Rescue workers on Sunday dug through the tangled wreckage after a high-speed train smashed into a stalled train in eastern China.
A secretive convoy from North Korea visited the Chinese city of Changchun on Saturday, in what may be Kim Jong-il’s latest trip to shore up ties.
Reclusive North Korean leader Kim Jong-il is reportedly in China seeking aid and protection from his only major ally.
President Hu Jintao flew to China’s remote and ruined Yushu county to speed relief distribution on Sunday, as Tibetan monks prayed over victims.
Mourners crowded ruins in south-west China on Tuesday to mark one year since an earthquake shattered the region.
No image available
/ 7 February 2008
The thunder of firecrackers ushered in the Year of the Rat on Thursday, but millions of Chinese spent a cold holiday as teams fought to restore power knocked out by the worst winter weather in a century.
Zhou Fenying is a living witness to the dark history that still poisons China’s relations with Japan more than 60 years after World War II. When Zhou was 22, Japanese soldiers came to her village in eastern China, grabbed her and her sister-in-law and carted them off to a military brothel, she says.