Recently, groups of young individuals, dubbed “professional and playful beggars”, have been seen lounging on the roadside in ...

The weather in some of the world’s most densely populated cities is swinging from droughts to floods and back again as rising temperatures play havoc with the global water cycle, a study commissioned ...

Seasonal flooding hits large parts of China every summer, particularly in the semitropical south. However, some northern regions this year have reported the worst floods in 50 years. In early July ...

Over the Scarborough Shoal, South China Sea — A Chinese navy helicopter flew within 10 feet of a Philippine patrol plane Tuesday in a disputed area of the South China Sea, prompting the Filipino ...

[Photo by Wang Zhuangfei/chinadaily.com.cn] China has made remarkable strides in mitigating flooding losses as it strives to strengthen its flood control capabilities in response to increasingly ...