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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.

Lawyers representing former Chinese labourers forced to work in Japanese factories during World War II filed a lawsuit on Thursday against the Japanese government and two companies, one of them said.

These items and more are delicacies organizers of the first Chinese Cuisine Festival: A Bite of Los Angeles hope to introduce to foodies during its 10-day celebration of China's tastiest dishes, which kicks off Friday today and runs through March 16. “We contacted restaurants we believe represent the best China has to offer,” said ... (more)

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New York's leading modern and contemporary art fair, the Armory Show is devoting a special section for the first time to a curated exhibition of contemporary works from China including from Hong Kong.

Huge chunks of concrete and broken machinery are all that is left of a cement plant that once spewed clouds of pollution over China's most polluted province, Hebei.

Monterey Park police officers investigate where a man was found beaten to death at a home in the 500 block of North Florence Avenue in Monterey Park on Wednesday March 5, 2014.

South Korean officials are criticizing a North Korean artillery launch that they say happened minutes before a Chinese commercial plane flew in the same area.

Depositors wanting to withdraw money from a rural bank in eastern China's prosperous Jiangsu province ahead of the Lunar New Year holiday found the doors locked, their money gone and employees offering a simple explanation.

An East Bay resident and the Oakland-based company he founded were found guilty of stealing an American company's secret recipe for making a chemical used to whiten products from cars to the middle of Oreo cookies and selling it to a competitor controlled by the Chinese government.