China's Energy Rush Shatters Village
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DA ANTOU, China -- Chen Xiao'e was home alone and fast asleep, she recalled, when the windows started to shatter for no apparent reason, like a scene out of a horror movie. "I was frightened out of my wits," Chen said.
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PINGXIANG, China  - At a dusty border crossing on a remote section of the China-Vietnam border, Puzhai looks more like a railway crossing than an entry point into the world's most resource-ravenous economy.
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Chaotic winter weather besieged  China's business and farming heartland on Tuesday, with no  quick end in sight to weeks of snow and ice that have trapped  energy and food flows ahead of a big national holiday.
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China needs to invest $120bn to increase badly-needed electricity supplies, a leading Chinese official says.
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A shortage of natural gas besets the state's most populous area. In rural outposts, energy costs spike.
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Brutal winter weather across China on Monday stranded hundreds of thousands of people and choked energy flows, claiming a rising human and economic toll that pummeled local stock prices ahead of Chinese New Year.
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Cold, exhausted residents stood in long lines for water and gasoline Tuesday as the central Chinese city of Chenzhou entered the 12th day of a blackout sparked by the worst winter storms in more than half a century.
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Chinaâs rush to build megacities is part of a major push to spread Chinaâs economic boom to the vast interior.
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XINTAI, China, Aug. 23 -- The first sign of trouble was a stream of water that burst from a wall deep in the mine, Wang Kuitao recalled. Within minutes, he said, the water was everywhere, rushing down the shaft carrying tons of mud. Another disaster was on the way, Wang quickly concluded, one mor...
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By Xiao Huang  The county-level city of Zhuanghe in Dalian, Northeast China's Liaoning Province, is speeding up the construction of the Dalian Huayuankou Industrial Park.
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A 16-hour storm unleashed more than 40,000 lightning strikes in China, killing 15 people, injuring more than 100 and bringing air, road and rail traffic to a halt, state media said on Wednesday. The storm, in the southwestern city of Chongqing, left five people missing and caused some 10,000 homes to collapse, the Beijing Times said.
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With the weather showing little sign of improving, thousands of Chinese remain stranded and many are without power
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ZHONGDONG, China  - For Wang Fengguan, a man's cave is his castle. He lives in a huge one -- and he has no intention of leaving. Neither do any of the other 20 families in his village.
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A Chinese satellite hits a villager's house on its return to earth, reports say.
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Aggrieved citizens from China's provinces live in a crowded Beijing village while petitioning the government, which plans to raze the village ahead of the Olympics.
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Chinese authorities are battling to clean up after one of the worst oil spills in the region's waters.
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GUIYU, China  - Guiyu is a modern day gold rush town. But instead of panning for gold in babbling streams, workers shift through piles of broken old computer parts in acrid smelling shacks, smelting down parts with crude equipment to extract valuable metals like gold and copper.