Heilongjiang, China News

Firefighter fight with a fire at an newly-completed apartment building in Harbin, capital of Heilongjiang Province yesterday.

Firemen battle the fire inside the high-rise building in Harbin, Northeast China's Heilongjiang Province, October 9, 2008.

China has suspended the sale and use of an injectable herbal remedy after six people suffered adverse reactions, including three who died.

The State Food and Drug Administration said in a notice posted late Wednesday that the six suffered 'serious ill effects' after being injected with an extract from an herb called Ciwujia made by Wandashan Pharmaceutical.

The SFDA isolated two batches of the remedy and urged immediate nationwide reporting of any adverse effects. The suspension comes as China is trying to reassure consumers amid a widespread tainted dairy scandal, the latest to mar the country's already troubled product safety record.

The Ministry of Environmental Protection and the National Tourism Administration say they have approved the establishment of China's first pilot national park.

BEIJING/KUNMING/HARBIN, Oct. 8 -- China on Wednesday suspended distribution and medical use of a herbal injection produced by a pharmaceutical firm based in the northeast Heilongjiang Province.

Bruce Lee is getting a belated hero's welcome in China , with the country's state broadcaster set to air a 50-part prime-time series on the late kung fu star.

China continued to strengthen dairy product supervision during the week-long National Day holiday amid efforts to ensure food safety and restore public trust in milk supplies.

Three township officials died and another two were injured on Sunday in an expressway crash in northeast China.

Company protests decision to pull its brand, saying EU's acceptable levels of melamine are much higher The Department of Health banned six Nestle milk powders yesterday after tests found traces of the toxic ...

Just one day after Minister of the Department of Health Yeh Ching-chuan guaranteed that all food products on store shelves are safe, the department said traces of melamine had been found in six types of Nestle ...

Pacific Asia Petroleum Inc., a Hartsdale company that seeks to buy oil and gas assets in Asia, has entered into a venture to buy a 25 percent interest in an oil field in China.

"It's for you," Douglas Apple said to his wife Maureen. They remember the moment as vividly as a couple recalling their child's birth: Aug.

Asia Petroleum, Inc. , a U.S. publicly traded company, announced today that it has entered into an Agreement on Cooperation with Well Lead Group Limited relating to the possible acquisition of a participating ...

Communist Party of China chief Hu Jintao has urged Party members to learn the theory on socialism with Chinese characteristics more conscientiously.

It starts with a sneeze, a runny nose and a cough. You think it's a cold but when the symptoms persist, you consult your doctor.

Main Category: Liver Disease / Hepatitis Also Included In: Infectious Diseases / Bacteria / Viruses ; GastroIntestinal / Gastroenterology ; Genetics Article Date: 28 Sep 2008 - 8:00 PDT HBV infection remains a ...

The 1.3-billion population beamed with pride and joy Sunday, as the nation's third manned space mission Shenzhou-7 ended in success.

China's discipline watchdog has called for universities and colleges to make further anti-corruption efforts and keep the campus clean for the students.

China's dairy market, which was thrown into chaos by a scandal involving tainted baby milk formula, is seeing encouraging signs of recovery in response to crisis management efforts.

China's banking regulator sought to reassure jittery financial markets on Thursday, denying a report it had told local banks to stop lending to U.S. banks and stressing that foreign bank operations in China ...