Two migrant workers have been sentenced to death for poisoning food at a snack bar in the southern Chinese boomtown of Shenzhen, killing two diners and sickening 61 others, state media said.

The news release didn’t say who Mark Ndesandjo was. Nor did the posters and e-mails promoting the concert Friday in this southern Chinese boomtown where he played piano to raise money for orphans.

Envoys of the Dalai Lama left Monday after a day of talks with Chinese officials that ended in an agreement to meet again, in an apparent sign of progress in easing tensions raised by violent anti-government riots in Tibet.Prime Minister Samdhong...

China’s official Xinhua News Agency is reporting that the Dalai Lama’s envoys and Chinese officials plan a second round of talks at an unannounced date.The report came late Sunday after the two sides met in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen. It was...

The Dalai Lama’s envoys met Chinese officials Sunday in the first talks between the two sides since violent anti-government protests erupted in Tibet, bringing international pressure on Beijing ahead of the Summer Olympics.International critics have...

President Hu Jintao said he has hopes for a positive outcome between representatives of the Dalai Lama and Chinese officials at talks that began Sunday _ the first since violent anti-government protests erupted in Tibet in March.”I hope that the...

An early morning factory fire left 15 people dead and three others severely wounded in Shenzhen, a state news agency reported Wednesday.Xinhua News Agency said the fire in Shenzhen, a booming industrial city in Guangdong province, broke out several hours.

Huang Qingnan lifts his hospital sheets and shows a long scar below his left hip. His right thigh needed stitches and surgeons fought to mend muscle and tendon gashed in his calf.The 34-year-old labor activist was stabbed repeatedly by knife-wielding...

Boo Weekley and Heath Slocum of the United States held their lead at the World Cup of Golf on Saturday, showing that America doesn’t need the likes of Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson to contend for the title.The lightly regarded American duo shot a...