More than 100 countries on Wednesday committed to develop, adopt and implement an effective post-2020 global framework, that aims to put biodiversity on a path to recovery, by 2030 at the latest.
The Kunming Declaration, adopted at the end of the UN (...)
AlQa'dah 12, 1436, Aug 27, 2015, SPA -- Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture in southwest China's Yunnan Province has seen a surge in dengue fever cases, with 12 reported since the prefecture's first case of the year on July 13.
Seven of the 12 (...)
AlQa'dah 11, 1436, Aug 26, 2015, SPA -- Five people are missing after floods hit a county in Yunnan Province, southwest China, the local publicity department said Wednesday.
Heavy rain battered Funing County from Tuesday night to Wednesday morning, (...)
A worker injured in a scaffolding collapse died in the hospital on Tuesday, bringing the death toll of the accident in southwest China's Yunnan Province on Monday to eight, authorities said.
Seven others injured were receiving treatment after the (...)
Six people were killed in a landslide in southwest China's Yunnan Province on Thursday, local authorities said.
According tp Xinhua, police authorities in the city of Baoshan received a report at 4:30 p.m. saying six people in the city's Longyang (...)
Rescuers have found two bodies and are rushing to find another seven buried following a rain-triggered landslide Tuesday in southwest China's Yunnan Province, local authorities said Thursday.
Nine people were buried as the disaster hit Xiaoxin (...)
AlHijjah 2, 1435, Sep 26, 2014, SPA -- Six were killed in a stampede Friday in a primary school in southwest China's Yunnan Province, confirmed local authorities.
The accident happened at about 2 p.m. at Mingtong Primary School in Kunming, capital (...)
At least 19 people were injured after an earthquake measuring 5.0 on the Richter scale jolted Yongshan County in southwest China's Yunnan Province at 6:07 a.m. on Sunday, local authorities said.
The epicenter was in Wuji Township, 21 kilometers from (...)
Chinese authorities have updated the death toll from the earthquake that hit southwest China's Yunnan Province on Sunday to 410 with 12 people missing.
The newly reported deaths include nine in the worst-hit Ludian County and three in Qiaojia (...)
A flash flood in a southwest China city has killed five people and left another three missing, local authorities said Monday.
The incident happened at around 4:50 a.m. Monday, when a flash flood struck Xiping Village in Baoshan City, Yunnan (...)
Fourteen workers were rescued from a railway tunnel collapse in southwest China's Yunnan Province in the early hours of Sunday after more than five days trapped underground.
One person remains missing and the rescue operation continues, Xinhua (...)
The death toll in a landslide in southwest China's Yunnan Province has risen to five with ten still missing, local authorities said on Friday.
Rescuers retrieved three more bodies as of Thursday evening after the landslide on Monday in Latudi (...)
Two people were confirmed dead, three others were injured and another 13 were missing by early hours on Tuesday after a landslide on Monday morning in southwest China's Yunnan Province, according to local authorities.
The accident happened at about (...)
Six people were killed and six others were injured when two vehicles collided on Sunday morning in Shilin County of southwest China's Yunnan Province.
At about 7 a.m., a mini-bus and a truck crashed into each other on a highway in Shilin, Xinhua (...)
Three people were killed and another four were injured in a blast in an apartment early Monday morning in southwest China's Yunnan Province, local authorities said.
The blast, which occurred at around 2:30 a.m., ripped through the fourth floor (...)
Firefighters are clearing the fireground after a forest fire was extinguished on Tuesday in southwest China's Yunnan Province, local authorities said on Wednesday.
Three firefighters were killed as about 3,900 put out the fire, which broke out on (...)
About 3,900 firefighters are scrambling to put out a forest fire in southwest China's Yunnan Province, local authorities said on Monday.
The fire, which broke out on Saturday afternoon in the city of Anning, has burned an area of 4,500 mu (300 (...)
The death toll from a coal mine flooding in southwest China's Yunnan Province has risen to 21, with another miner still missing, local authorities said Sunday.
The accident took place at Xiahaizi coal mine in Qujing City on April 7, trapping 22 (...)
The death toll from a mine flood in southwest China's Yunnan Province rose to 19 on Friday as rescuers found 14 more bodies, with three others still missing.
The accident that happened at 4:50 a.m. on April 7 at the Xiahaizi coal mine in Qujing City (...)
A forest fire that broke out on Wednesday in the outskirts of Kunming, capital of southwest China's Yunnan Province, is still blazing southwards, despite efforts to stop the fire spreading, authorities said on Friday.
The Kunming Forest Fire (...)
Firefighters are battling to extinguish a forest fire in southwest China's Yunnan Province on Sunday, according to the provincial forest fire team.
A total of 2,320 people, including 250 forest policemen, have been mobilized to put out the blaze, (...)
Order has been restored at Kunming train station in southwest China's Yunnan Province where a deadly terrorist attack on Saturday night left 29 civilians dead and more than 130 injured.
Train arrivals resumed on Sunday after three trains with 3,000 (...)
Fire fighters have extinguished a forest fire which broke out in a mountain in southwest China's Yunnan Province near midday Tuesday, said local forestry fire prevention authorities.
More than 300 people put out the blaze at around 6 p.m. on (...)
Firefighters have put out a forest fire that broke out on Saturday afternoon in southwest China's Yunnan Province and no casualties were reported, local authorities said Sunday.
It took more than 200 people to help extinguish the blaze that (...)
Freezing weather, snow and frost have damaged 10 million mu (670,000 hectares) of crops in southwest China's Yunnan Province, local authorities said Tuesday.
The weather also damaged tropical and subtropical cash crops such as coffee and rubber, (...)
