Minivan salesman Zhu Yi has a problem that most auto dealers elsewhere would happily swap for their own: He doesn't have enough vehicles to satisfy customer demand. ...more

December 29, 2009

Nearly four months after China's devastating earthquake, a government scientist acknowledged Thursday that a rush to build schools in recent years likely led to construction flaws that caused so many of them to collapse. ...more

September 5, 2008

When a magnitude 8 earthquake rocked China's Sichuan province on May 12, Gary Mentro's sister-in-law worried about friends back home. ...more

June 30, 2008

They're still counting casualties back home, and so when Zheng Jie completed the biggest victory of her career Friday at Wimbledon, she resisted any temptation to leap or squeal or pump her fist or collapse to the grass in glee. ...more

June 28, 2008

It is meant to be a celebration of childhood, but in Sichuan province on Sunday, Children's Day turned into a day of mourning and a provocation to parents whose children were crushed to death by falling school buildings during the powerful earthquake three weeks ago. ...more

June 2, 2008

Taoist Master Dan Jia picks through the wreckage of the 1,500-year-old Erwang Temple, piling books in a stack and dusting off altarpieces. ...more

June 1, 2008

Chinese authorities prepared Saturday to drain a swelling lake formed by a devastating earthquake, completing work on a drainage channel to divert water that threatens hundreds of thousands of people downstream. ...more

June 1, 2008

Dozens of men and women swarm over the mounds of debris of this ruined city, an eerie replay of the early days after China's devastating earthquake. ...more

May 30, 2008

About 80,000 people were evacuated Tuesday from downstream of an unstable earthquake-created dam that is threatening to collapse, and troops rushed to carve a trench to drain the water before it floods the valley. ...more

May 28, 2008

The Chinese government warned Monday that as many as 1.2 million residents might have to flee because they could be inundated by a swelling "barrier lake" formed when a river was blocked by landslides from the May 12 earthquake. ...more

May 27, 2008