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Chinese authorities were on Sunday investigating claims that unidentified North Koreans hijacked a Chinese fishing boat, kidnapping 16 sailors and demanding a ransom, local media and an official said.

Chinese police say they have detained a man suspected of making fake bomb threats this week against five domestic flights.

From the Department of Cardiovascular Medicine , and the Department of Rheumatology , First Affiliated Hospital of Medical School, Cardiovascular Research Center , and Key Laboratory of Environment and Genes Related to Diseases , Medical School, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China; and Division of Biomedical Sciences, University of California, ... (more)

The girl, who police said was abused by her father, is treated at a clinic in a village in Jinsha county, Guizhou province, on Saturday.

Chateau de Pic in the Cadillac Cotes de Bordeaux, Chateau l'Enclos in Sainte Foy la Grande and Chateau Patarabet in Saint Emilion are the latest Bordeaux estates to reportedly pass into the hands of Asian investors.

A Western tour company in China said Tuesday it has obtained permission from North Korea for Westerners to make day trips into the country from the Chinese border.

Chris Hadfield has returned from his five-month mission aboard the International Space Station During his time in orbit, the Canadian astronaut has been tweeting some incredbile images of the earth.

Police in China frequently beat, torture and arbitrarily detain suspected sex workers, often with little or no evidence that they engaged in prostitution, Human Rights Watch said in a report Tuesday calling on the government to discipline abusive officers.

In this Aug. 13, 2010 photo, policemen detain suspected prostitutes in a campaign to crack down on prostitution in Xi'an, in northwestern China's Shaanxi province.

Training stressed to give manufacturers edge in customer care In response to increasingly fierce competition in China's luxury car market, manufacturers have increased investment in dealer training to improve customer satisfaction and loyalty.

Starting at the silk capital of Xi'an, she passes Jiayugan and the Jade Gate, once frontier towns on the edge to the uncivilized western world.

Last summer I had the extraordinary pleasure of teaching a course in American history to a group of Chinese scholars in Xi'an. They were a wonderful group of eager, inquisitive students who teach American studies in a variety of universities around China and my job was to give them an "enrichment" program so they could improve their own work.

GANSU Province, containing a key segment of the Silk Road, is an arid land of mystery, with temples, ruins, and the farthest western outpost of the Great Wall.

Chinese doctors have successfully transplanted part of liver from a genetically altered pig to a monkey, a hospital announced on Wednesday in Xi'an, Shaanxi province.

The cultural heritage authority in Xi'an, capital of Shaanxi province, said on April 11 that some buildings of a temple in the city will be removed after the monks agreed to the plan, after media reports said most of its buildings will be dismantled.

A painter went to his mother's ancestral home in China to realize his plans for an eclectic home, but local traditions prevailed.

Wilmar International downplayed the threat of bird flu to Chinese feed demand, despite the dent to the poultry industry from the disease, at a time when traders are warning of lower soybean crush margins ahead too.

Residents of China's southwestern Kunming city took to the streets on May 4, 2013 to protest against the potential production of a toxic chemical at a nearby factory.

The research, published in Quaternary International was carried out by a group of scientists from Shaanxi Normal University and Northwest University in Xi'an and The Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Beijing.No wild elephants live in North China today, but historical documents indicate that they roamed freely 3,000 ... (more)

Cars, planes made out of recycled materials, helicopters with wooden blades and rickshaws pulled by a robot are some of the amazing inventions from China.