After working for more than 20 years as a coal miner in northern China, 40-year-old Long Yongquan has decided to stay at home - a traditional timber cabin and a leaking cement bungalow in the...
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- Jun 20, 2013
- Updated: 11:35pm
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Fu Maoyan and his wife have been busy building a storehouse for pig feed beside their three pigsties.
The more than 80 pigs they raise and their pig feed business have made them better off...
The new cement road leading from Longfeng, a remote township in the mountains of southwestern Hubei , to the villages of Longma and Qingbao has never been so busy.
The death toll has risen to 14 from a fire at a commercial building with a hotel in Xiangyang, Hubei province. But three of four suspects wanted by police in connection with the blaze turned...
Chinese authorities say 14 people were killed after a sleeper bus fell off a bridge in central Hubei province. Hubei highway police said on its microblog on Tuesday night that the bus went off a...
Four school children were killed in a stampede in China’s central Hubei province on Wednesday morning, according to local authorities.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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.
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