Hubei

Four children die in Hubei school stampede

27 Feb 2013

Four school children were killed in a stampede in China’s central Hubei province on Wednesday morning, according to local authorities.

19 Hubei workers plunge to death after lift collapse

14 Sep 2012

Nineteen construction workers have plummeted 30 storeys to their death after an elevator scaling the high rise block they were building collapsed beneath their feet, prompting new calls for more...

Probe into intravenous drips for Hubei pupils

8 May 2012

Hubei officials are looking into an incident in which a class of senior high school pupils were intravenously given amino acids in a night course in preparation for the national college entrance...

Conflicting reports on seizure of 12,000 shells

6 Apr 2012

More than 12,000 artillery shells were seized from a truck in the central province of Hubei on Sunday, local media reported yesterday.

The truck was heading to the northeastern...

Endangered monkeys make move to Ocean Park

3 Apr 2012

With their blue faces and little snub-noses, two golden monkeys are the latest example of China's endangered wildlife to greet visitors to Ocean Park.

The pair moved in next to giant...

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Section of high-speed railway collapses

An unopened section of a high-speed railway in Hubei province has collapsed due to heavy rains - the latest in a string of mishaps to hit the network since the fatal collision last summer in...

Snow threatens last-minute dash home

Tens of millions of travellers were making last-ditch efforts to rush home for Lunar New Year's Eve reunion dinners today, even as heavy snow was falling across seven provinces.

Hubei's chief lays down law to the media

The Hubei provincial party committee, led by a controversial official who once seized a reporter's recorder during an interview, has ordered local media to stop investigating events outside the...

Suspect in bank blast seen on video

Wuhan police yesterday released online three photos of a suspect in a deadly bank explosion on Thursday, and 100,000 yuan (HK$122,000) was offered for tips leading to the man's arrest.

Two dead, 10 injured in blast outside bank

At least two passers-by were killed and more than 10 others injured in a massive blast, reportedly set off by someone armed with a bomb who tried to rob a bank in Wuhan, the capital of Hubei...

Cradle of revolt hoping to cash in

Wuhan has been one big construction site for the past three years.

With city planners seeing the centenary of the 1911 revolution as a rare opportunity to promote the city to a...