China has canceled or postponed several military exchanges with the United States in protest against a proposed 6.5 billion dollar arms sale to Taiwan, a Pentagon spokesman said Monday.
At least nine people were killed in a strong earthquake which struck the Himalayan region of Tibet, Chinese state media said early Tuesday, quoting the rescue headquarters at the epicentre.
China on Monday vowed to clean up its scandal-plagued dairy industry, admitting a grave lack of supervision as authorities said more children had been sickened by tainted milk products.
An American woman sentenced to life in jail in Hong Kong for bludgeoning her banker husband to death after lacing his milkshake with sedatives lost her appeal against conviction Monday.
Chinese film-maker Pan Jianlin struggles to find the right words to describe what he saw at the Muyu Middle School, six days after the earthquake that devastated Sichuan province.
China attempted Sunday to contain the fallout from the tainted milk scandal, announcing a new survey of dairy products showed no traces of melamine and promising to subsidise farmers hit by the scare.
China has ordered its coal mines to store no more explosives than are needed for three days in order to reduce the risk of accidents in the lethal industry, state media said Sunday.
Japan's new Prime Minister Taro Aso plans to visit China in late October and hold his first summit with Chinese leaders since taking office last month, a report said Sunday.
US envoy Christopher Hill left Beijing late Saturday after a visit lasting just a few hours amid efforts to salvage a North Korean nuclear disarmament deal, a US embassy spokesman said.