Wal-Mart, the world's largest retailer, has apologized for selling duck meat past its expiry date in a store in southwest China's Chongqing region, the official Xinhua News Agency reported on Saturday.

China's state media report that a bus has plunged into a ravine in western China, killing at least 16 people and injuring another 24.

A government-run website says Chinese authorities have approved the executions of four men convicted of terrorist violence in the restive western region of Xinjiang.

Authorities in this southern city will introduce a garbage sorting system on April 1 as part of an effort to deal with the ever-increasing amount of garbage generated by urban areas.

A hospital in southern China says surgeons have successfully removed a rusty, 4-inch knife from the skull of a man who claimed it had been stuck in there for four years.

State media says five people were killed and five injured when a car plowed into a parade of revelers performing a traditional dragon dance in eastern China.

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A Chinese court sentenced a man who attempted to exploit his father's senior police rank to flee a fatal road accident to six years in jail on Sunday, state media reported.

Some departments and cities in South China's Guangdong province have been criticized for failing to build sufficient affordable housing for the province's low-income residents.

Environmental groups in China are criticizing a decision to shrink a fish reserve on the Upper Yangtze River, saying it would allow the construction of a dam that could endanger rare fish species.