"Safety officials and investigators have blamed poor management and inadequate safety precautions for the coal mine blast" in China on Saturday, November 21, 2009.

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A clash between soldiers and followers from ousted President Manuel Zelaya left several injured on Thursday here.

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Severe flooding has occurred in China.

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The Chinese news agency Xinhua has reported the U.S. has once again delayed a crucial report about the goings-on at Gitmo, where alleged torture of prisoners made global headlines.

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Zhang Yinde thinks a huge egg laid by one of his hens "deserves a place in the Guinness World Records."

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China on Tuesday accused supporters of the Dalai Lama of fabricating a video that appears to show police beating a Tibetan protester to death, while the video-sharing network YouTube said its service had been blocked for Chinese users.

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South Africa says it has barred the Dalai Lama from a peace conference later this week, citing its relationship with China and saying now is not the time for such a high-profile visit. More Articles

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"Today, the religion, culture, language and identity, which successive generations of Tibetans have considered more precious than their lives, are nearing extinction," said the Dalai Lama, 73, the spiritual leader of the Tibetans. More Articles

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China plans to hire hundreds of reporters as U.S. newspaper market shrinks, but the question is would journalists be interested in working in state-controlled media.

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When journalists at China's national broadcaster CCTV log on, one of the first things that pops up on screen is a notice about what not to report.

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A woman suspected of being infected with bird flu has died in Beijing, the local health bureau said on Tuesday of what would be the first bird flu death in the country in almost a year. The woman died on Monday. Her age was not known, Xinhua news agency said.

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Chinese authorities have arrested 59 people in Tibet accused of spreading rumors and inciting sentiment against the state and public safety, state-run media reported.

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The fabricated article titled, "An Exciting Night on the Pacific: Shenzhou VII Orbits 30 Times," was published even before the Shenzhou VII spacecraft was launched. The article was soon deleted from the website.

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Apparently, the official Chinese news agency already had a story in the can recounting the launch of their first space mission. A tech mistakenly aired the story before the rocket took off, creating one of the most embarrassing moments in the history of Communist propaganda.

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The State Duma, the lower house of Russia's parliament, on Monday approved an appeal to the Russian president on the recognition of the independence of Abkhazia and South Ossetia, two breakaway regions of Georgia.

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A deadly virus has spread rapidly in eastern China, killing at least 21 children and infecting nearly 3,000, Xinhua news agency said on Friday.

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China has acknowledged for the first time that anti-government protests have spread outside Tibet, and announced arrests following the riots in Lhasa. Thousands of armed police have flooded into the provinces and neighbouring Qinghai province amid sporadic demonstrations.

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It turns out that train tracks in Tibet aren't where the antelope play. Earlier this week, Xinhua, China's state-run news agency, issued an unusual public apology for publishing a doctored photograph of Tibetan wildlife frolicking near a high-speed train.

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A soldier of the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) was killed and another wounded Monday in a roadside blast in southern Afghan province of Uruzgan, an ISAF spokesman Maj. Charles Anthony told Xinhua.

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It is always enlightening to see what others are reading, particularly people from other regions and cultures.

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On Sunday, China's official news agency Xinhua issued a new set of directives on the distribution of foreign news in China that reinforces its traditional role as gatekeeper and propaganda arm.

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