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In this Monday, Jan. 20, 2014 photo, Zhou Wangyan, head of the Liling city land resources bureau, uses crutches to stand near a computer displaying an image of him after his release from Communist Party detention in January 2013, during an interview at his home in Liling in central China's Hunan province.

The vice governor of a Chinese province is being investigated, the ruling Communist Party's internal disciplinary body announced Sunday, the latest high-ranking official to fall in a high-profile anti-graft campaign.

The Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Pinckney joined the search Sunday for a missing Malaysia passenger flight.

Malaysian officials are poring over CCTV footage and questioning immigration officers and guards at Kuala Lumpur's international airport, concerned that a security breach may be connected to the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370.

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A wildcat strike at an IBM factory in southern China illustrates how tectonic shifts under way in the country's labor market are emboldening workers to take matters into their own hands, raising risks for multinationals.

China's top legislator Zhang Dejiang denounced the serious election fraud in central China's Hunan Province at the ongoing annual parliamentary session here Sunday.

Worker changing a business signboard in downtown Beijing, China, Friday, March 7, 2014.

On March 1st, an organized team of people in black face masks dropped a bag and each pulled out 20 inch knives, and started stabbing at a at Kunming rail station in China.

Air quality was below national standards in almost all China's major cities last year, a top environment official said Saturday, after Premier Li Keqiang pledged to "declare war" on pollution.

China said on Saturday that it will work with Afghanistan to fight terrorism, after it blamed a deadly train station attack on extremists from its western Xinjiang region, which shares a short border with the war-torn nation.

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A Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777-200 carrying 239 people lost contact with air traffic control early Saturday morning on a flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, and international aviation authorities still hadn't located the jetliner several hours later.

Teapots made of red clay are one of the most popular traditional products in Wuxi, a city labelled as "Land of Fish and Rice" in China's eastern Jiangsu Province The giant teapot, about as high as a 10-storey building, was designed to be a sales office by a real estate developer.

Thirteen people were on a floor that produced emulsion explosives at the plant run by Kailuan Group in the city of Tangshan when the morning blast occurred, the official Xinhua News Agency said.

The China Southern Airlines flight was flying from Narita airport in Tokyo to the northeastern Chinese city of Shenyang on Tuesday, according to South Korea's defence ministry.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, right, shakes hands with Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, during their meeting in the West Bank city of Ramallah, Tuesday, March 4, 2014.

Chinese paramilitary police stand guard outside the scene of the terrorist attack at the main train station in Kunming, in the Chinese province of Yunnan, on March 3, 2014 At a session at China's National People's Congress, a top official says loopholes that allow Internet users in China to break past online censors are to blame for terrorist ... (more)

Beijing police have told prominent users of the microblogging site Weibo to cease comments deemed hurtful, including suggestions that authorities misled the public with accounts of a deadly train station attack blamed on militants from Xinjiang.