One person in Southwest China's Sichuan province died of plague on Sept 7, the Ministry of Health said Monday.

An earthquake measuring 4.9 on the Richter scale jolted Southwest China's Yunnan province at 11:21 am Tuesday (Beijing Time), according to the China Earthquake Networks Center.

Three people have died while six others remain trapped underground two days after a gas burst hit a colliery in Southwest China.

Louisiana state agencies have spent more than $100 million to deal with Hurricane Isaac and the costs are expected to rise, a local news website said Thursday.

Countries in East Asian region are forecast to be free from polio disease by early 2014, a WHO top official said here Thursday.

China's top economic planning agency has approved 25 urban rail projects that could be worth more than 800 billion yuan ($126.98 billion).

The government will spend 37.36 billion yuan(about $5.93 billion) to improve the quality of farmland this year, the Ministry of Finance said Thursday.

At least 43 people have been killed and 150 others injured as of 3:50 p.m.

The annual Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Leaders' Meeting this weekend in the Far Eastern Russian city of Vladivostok has put drawing up a list of environmentally friendly goods on its agenda.

Authorities are continuing to investigate whether dozens of children in central China were used as test subjects in a US-China joint research project that included genetically modified rice.

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