21 Oct 2012

A driver dies in the Sichuan city of Luzhou while police are trying to get him to move his truck, which they say is illegally parked. The body is noticed by passers-by and word quickly spreads...

18 Oct 2012

Hundreds of angry passers-by hurled bricks and bottles at police and overturned and set fire to police vehicles in a protest after the officers were accused of beating a driver to death in...

27 May 2012

'There is just one life. Taste all the splendour the world has to offer.'

Those are the words that Ma Chi chose to greet people with on his instant-messaging service.

3 May 2012

Xu Guanghui had not seen his family for two years when he sat down for a celebratory feast in Luzhou, Sichuan province. The 34-hour bus journey over bumpy roads to get to his family from his job...

23 Jun 2011

Falling water levels and cutthroat competition are among the five main challenges facing port operators along the Yangtze River, just as manufacturers increasingly shift production to central and...

The restructuring of a PLA-linked chemical plant in Luzhou , Sichuan province , has been shelved after a mass protest last week which saw several protesters arrested.

More than two dozen officials in Sichuan province have been disciplined over a fatal ferry accident in June which killed 130 people.

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