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The death toll from a coalmine blast in northeast China has climbed to 92 as rescuers hunt for 16 workers still trapped deep underground in the nation's deadliest mine disaster in two years.

The Dalai Lama defended President Barack Obama from criticism that he has been too soft on China, saying today that the US leader just has a different approach to dealing with the Asian giant.

China's top political advisor, Jia Qinglin, met with French High Commissioner of the Republic in French Polynesia Adolphe Colrat here on Friday.

China has allayed concerns of India over the US-China joint statement, saying that it advocated direct negotiations between India and Pakistan to resolve their bilateral issues.

A photo exhibition displaying achievements of the People's Republic of China since its founding 60 years ago was held in Moscow Saturday.

Chinese soldiers from the southern boomtown of Guangzhou who are newly assigned to Tibet will get a "special allowance" of up to 160,000 yuan for serving there, a local newspaper reported on Saturday.

Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama told visiting Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi that he would attend the World Expo in Shanghai next year and invited Premier Wen Jiabao to visit Tokyo before that.

CHINESE Premier Wen Jiabao on Friday congratulated the European Union for creating the new posts of president and foreign policy chief, calling it a 'step forward' for EU integration.

Washington's ambassador to Beijing hit out Friday at negative U.S. media coverage of President Barack Obama's visit to China, saying it failed to take into account important progress on many issues.

A gas explosion tore through a coal mine in northern China on Saturday, killing 23 people and trapping another 90 nearly a third of a mile under ground, central government authorities said.

Palestinian officials announced Friday that a new date for parliamentary and presidential elections will be set next month now that President Mahmoud Abbas has agreed to postpone the January vote, though the Gaza Strip's Hamas rulers maintain they will boycott the voting.

When China launched a Web site for its defense ministry in August, the whole world took notice.

A prominent mainland Chinese director banned by Beijing from making movies brought his new gay romance film to Hong Kong on Friday for what is likely the last of a handful of screenings on his home soil.

After allegedly stealing trade secrets valued at $32 million and attempting to sell them to Chinese competitors, Xiang Dong Yu was arraigned today in a US District Court.

The 11th China International Travel Mart has opened in the southwestern city of Kunming, capital of Yunnan Province.

Mukesh Ambani has emerged the wealthiest person in India with a net worth of $32 billion, as the number of Indian billionaires in Forbes' 'India Rich List' this year has nearly doubled to 52, thanks to the rebound in stock markets.

An exiled former leader of the 1989 student pro-democracy movement went on trial in southwestern China on Thursday on financial fraud charges after being extradited from Hong Kong, a human rights group reported.

Sometime into his long detention by China's feared state security agents, American geologist Xue Feng had something to show U.S. consular officials on their monthly visit.

In this May 13, 2009 file photo, a security guard wears a protective mask as a precaution against swine flu, cordons the entrance of a the Home Inn Hotel, where China's second confirmed swine flu patient is believed to have been lodged in Beijing, China.

AUSTRALIAN regulators have approved a Chinese state-owned company's $40 million stake deal in a South Australian magnetite joint venture.