Four crew members of a ship registered in the eastern Chinese city of Wenzhou are missing after local maritime authorities lost contact with the vessel.
The maritime bureau of Fuzhou, Fujian Province, lost contact with Zhengang 111 at about 3 a.m., (...)
AlQa'dah 26, 1435, Sep 21, 2014, SPA -- A total of 16 dengue cases have been reported in east China's Jian Ou City of Fujian Province as of Saturday, local authorities said on Sunday.
The patients were all from Dongfeng Township. Two people have (...)
Four people were confirmed dead on Sunday after a bus carrying Taiwanese tourists plunged into a river in southeast China's Fujian Province on Friday noon.
The body of a 50-year-old man was found on Sunday afternoon in the Jiulong River in Shajian (...)
One H7N9 bird flu patient has died, and two patients have been discharged from hospital in east China's Fujian Province, local authorities announced Tuesday.
The two lucky patients from the cities of Quanzhou and Ningde, were allowed to home on (...)
A 38-year-old man died from H7N9 bird flu on Friday in east China's Fujian Province, the provincial health and family planning commission confirmed in a statement.
The man, surnamed Zeng, was from Hui'an County of Quanzhou City. He was confirmed to (...)
Rainstorms swept east China's Fujian Province on Friday after tropical storm Cimaron made landfall on Thursday night.
Torrential rain, the biggest in more than a century in cities of Zhangzhou and Xiamen, have left one person dead and another (...)
Health authorities in southeast China's Fujian Province reported a new human infection of the H7N9 avian flu on Tuesday, bringing the total number of cases in the province to three.
A 58-year-old man surnamed Xu from the city of Fuzhou tested (...)
Health authorities in east China's Fujian Province on Friday confirmed the province's first human case of H7N9 avian influenza.
A 65-year-old man surnamed Luo, a local resident from Gaopo township, Yongding County, Longyan City, showed symptoms of (...)
Six people have been confirmed dead after a landslide buried a work shed in southeast China's Fujian province last week, local authorities said Monday.
The disaster occurred at 3:30 p.m. on April 24 in Longdeyang village of Daqiao township, Gutian (...)
An explosion that occurred in a garage in east China's Fujian province has killed 12 people after police confirmed that three workers who went missing after the blast were killed in the explosion.
The blast, caused by explosives illegally stored in (...)
A cargo ship with 11 aboard sank in waters off China's southeastern coast early Saturday, leaving at least eight crew members dead.
A spokesman of the maritime rescue center said by noon rescuers had saved one person, recovered eight bodies, and (...)
The death toll in a fire in southeast China's Fujian Province on Monday has risen to nine as two more bodies were found in the afternoon. One was still missing and another injured was treated at hospital.
The fire started at about 4 a.m. in a (...)
A truck has slammed into a roadside crowd in east China's Fujian Province, killing 10 people and injuring another two, local authorities said Wednesday.
Eight people died instantly when the truck crashed into a group of villagers resting and (...)
Rain-battered parts of south China faced the threat of landslides and fresh floods on Thursday, when Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao visited a city threatened by a burst river dyke, according to Reuters.
The Chinese government has rushed troops, food (...)
Floods have triggered landslides and mud flows in east China's Fujian Province, leaving 76 dead and 79 missing as of 4 p.m. Monday, said local flood control officials Tuesday.
The floods, the worst in one hundred years in some regions of Fujian, (...)
Two people were killed and seven injured in a mine blast in east China's Fujian Province Tuesday, local authorities said.
Explosives in a Shunchang county's mine went off at 9:35 a.m., killing two at the scene and injuring seven others, Xinhua (...)
Seven people, including a highway maintenance worker, were killed after a truck fell off a mountain Saturday in east China's Fujian Province, local police said Sunday.
The accident happened at 11:25 a.m. Saturday when a truck loaded with more (...)
One person rescued from a ship collision Wednesday morning died after treatment failed while six others were still missing, Xinhua quoted rescuers as saying.
A fishing boat sank at about 10:35 a.m. in collision with a cargo vessel off the coast (...)
Seven people were killed and three injured after a minibus plunged off a hillside in east China"s Fujian Province Friday, Xinhua quoted local authorities as saying today.
The accident occurred at 7:19 p.m. in Gande town in Anxi County, leaving (...)
Prolonged drought has affected 194,200 people in east China"s Fujian Province, Xinhua quoted a statement from the province"s flood control and drought relief office as saying.
The drought has also affected 81,200 hectares of cropland in the (...)
Typhoon Morakot has killed at least three people on the Chinese mainland as of Monday afternoon, after a powerful landing in east China Sunday, Xinhua quoted the Ministry of Civil Affairs as saying.
The three deaths occurred in China's Fujiang, (...)
Typhoon Morakot slammed into Chinese provinces on the eastern coast on Sunday, causing casualties, destroying houses and inundating farmlands, according to Xinhua.
Morakot made landfall in the coastal areas of Beibi Town, Xiapu County in Fujian (...)
Five people have been killed and two others remain missing after severe rainstorms lashed southeast China's Fujian Province starting Wednesday, Xinhua reported.
As of 5 p.m. Saturday, torrential rain had affected 180,000 people in Fujian, and (...)
Linfa, the third tropical storm for this year, landed in east China's Fujian Province Sunday evening, packing winds at 23 meters per second at its eye, Xinhua reported.
The storm landed in Dongshi Township in Jinjiang City at 8:30 p.m., said Xie (...)
More than 2,000 people have been mobilized to fight a fire, which has been burning across 130 hectares of forest for 20 hours in east China's Fujian Province, Xinhua quoted a forestry official as saying on Friday.
Police officers, firemen and (...)
