China is coming to the end of an official period of mourning for those who died in last week’s earthquake. For three days, ...

Like mosquitoes after a rainstorm, disasters in China are inevitably followed by persistent, nagging and uncomfortable questions about how many people died. It is the same if the disaster is massive, ...

Heavy rainstorms hit south-west China this week, triggering a landslide on Wednesday which buried up to 40 people in the city of Dujiangyan, an area previously devastated by the 2008 Sichuan ...