Hubei, China News

Century Cruises of China has added yet another ship to its now seven-vessel Yangtze River fleet.

A rubbish collector walks through a building due to be torn down to make room for a new residential area in Wuhan, Hubei province.

Sinopec Engineering fell 1.9 per cent on its trading debut in Hong Kong on Thursday after raising $1.8 billion in the city's biggest initial public offering of the year.

Blaming a faulty printer is a convenient excuse for failing to get work done - but this explanation has helped a woman in China's Hubei province save hundreds of marriages.

Buy too much rice in Hong Kong and 'you could end up in jail', Chinese media warn tourists in wake of Guangzhou cadmium scandal Born and raised in Hong Kong, Ernest is an online news producer for SCMP.com. He is an avid consumer of news and enjoys following local, national and global current affairs.

In a breathtaking orgy of flashes, bangs and perfectly-timed destruction, a two-mile viaduct is blown to smithereens in China.

Mobile devices are displayed at a ZTE Corp sales counter in Wuhan, Hubei province.

Forty eight residents of China's Rotorua-Nanjing township were welcomed to Rotorua yesterday [Wednesday 15 May] with an official powhiri at the Rotorua District Council Civic Centre.

From the Department of Cardiology, Renmin Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, China ; Cardiovascular Research Institute, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China ; College of Life Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China ; Cardiovascular Division, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN ; Department of Nutrition Sciences, University of Alabama, Birmingham, ... (more)

From the Department of Physiology and Pathophysiology, Peking University Health Science Center, Beijing, China ; Section of Molecular Medicine, Department of Medicine, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, OK ; the Key Laboratory of Hubei Province on Cardio-Cerebral Diseases, ... (more)

A view from the Three Gorges dam over the Yangtze River in Yichang, in China's Hubei province, on August 9, 2012.

Perilous profession: A policeman watches over a group of girls, suspected of being sex workers, during an inspection of a nightclub in Beijing.

Energy rush a water is released from the Three Gorges Dam in Yichang, China, which has a total electric generating capacity 22,500 megawatts.

Chinese State Councilor Yang Jiechi and Mikhail Babich, a Russian presidential representative, on Tuesday co-chaired a forum on the cooperation of regions along the Yangtze and Volga rivers.

Compared with recent Hollywood blockbusters such as Django Unchained and Cloud Atlas, which did not escape the snips of Chinese censors, Iron Man 3 is much luckier.

File photo of a sex worker in Guangzhou. The Human Rights Watch estimates four million to six millions sex workers on the mainland are subject to arbitrary abuse by their clients and police.

A customer buys a mobile phone at a Huawei store in Yichang, Hubei province. Ren Zhengfei, founder and CEO of Huawei Technologies Co, defended the Chinese company in the face of US cyber security claims on Thursday.

It looks like a scene from science fiction. Gored by the claws of the beast, the man's body tenses in terror.

Wang Mengqiang's worries always have something to do with his pigs. Falling hog prices after the dumping of dead pigs into Shanghai's Huangpu River has hit his business hard.

Between his British accent and fluent Chinese, Iain Inglis, the nearly 35-year-old freelancer in tropical Sanya, Hainan Province, told the story of how he experienced the ups and downs along with China's political changes after becoming known as a "Red Song Talent" on popular television shows.