Paramilitary and plainclothes police blanketed Lhasa with patrols and checkpoints Saturday, imposing what witnesses called a tense calm on the anniversary of a violent anti-Chinese riot in the Tibetan capital.

A 5.0-magnitude earthquake struck central China’s Sichuan province near the border with Gansu province, the U.S. Geological Survey said Thursday.

The U.S. Geological Survey says a 5.0 magnitude earthquake struck central China’s Sichuan province near the border with Gansu province.

A dozen Asiatic black bears, malnourished and diseased from years spent on abusive bile-harvesting farms in southwest China, were recovering Saturday after being handed over to an animal charity group.

A pair of pandas have left China on a long-awaited goodwill journey to their new home in Taiwan in the latest move symbolizing the warming ties between the rivals.

More than 500 security guards and armed police were keeping watch Monday at an airport in southwest China where a pair of pandas will take off for their new home in Taiwan, state media reported.

The Olympic torch completed the final leg of its global relay before reaching Beijing where the games will open, passing Tuesday through the earthquake-stricken province of Sichuan in an homage to tens of thousands killed there in May.

Landslides have blocked a highway with rubble and isolated 3,000 people in a quake-hit town in southwest China, Xinhua News Agency said.Heavy rains Monday pushed large amounts of unstable earth and rocks onto three different sections of the highway near..

Anguished parents of children killed when a primary school collapsed during China’s earthquake last month staged an hourslong sit-in at the school Friday while waiting for the results of an investigation into its construction.The parents said officials...

Upset parents of children who died in a primary school that collapsed during China’s massive earthquake last month gathered at the school Friday to await a government answer on its construction.The parents said the government had promised to give them...