Chen Liandi and his wife Li Yuhong were recently accused of violating China's one-child policy by giving birth to their third child. A confrontation broke out when government officials went to their home, and the baby was killed in the ensuing mel...

A 23-year-old man has been kept alive for seven years with a homemade respirator after being in a near-fatal car accident. The family couldn't afford surgery, so they alternate between pumping air into their son's lungs manually and switching on a...

As temperatures continue to drop across China, authorities have stepped up efforts to bring homeless people into shelters, going out at night to search for people sleeping on the streets. State-run CCTV News reports that many, however, choose to s...

China is making it tougher to get a driver's license in hopes that it will make roads safer. In some areas, only ten percent of people are passing the new written driving test, down from 80 percent before. State-run CCTV News reports that traffic ...

An unlikely symbol of resistance in China has captured international attention. A duck farmer and his wife are refusing to leave their half-demolished house in the city of Wenling, after neighboring homes were demolished to make way for a new road...

Residents took to the streets in Ningbo this past week to protest a proposed petrochemical factory. State broadcaster CCTV reports that the protests had both a patriotic and environmentalist message, resulting in the decision by city officials to ...

China's Zhejiang province was hit hard by the storm this past week, forcing 1.5 million residents to evacuate as hundred mile an hour winds and torrential rains hit the region. Shanghai escaped the worst of it, but as CCTV News reports, a quarter ...

Hangzhou-based architect Wang Shu has won this year's Pritzker Architecture Prize. His works mix modern design with traditional materials in an environmentally conscious way. Chinese broadcaster CCTV News has the story.

It is a common occurrence: local officials seize farmland from the rural poor, sell it to developers and pocket the money. But the villagers of Panhe, Zhejiang, had enough, and last week rose up in protest. Journalist Remko Tanis covered the story...

A two-year-old toddler has regained consciousness after a train crash in east China.