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"A sponge city could handle any flood - if it doesn't, it's not a sponge city. It has to be resilient," he says. Commuters and children rescued from China floodwaters Another question has been ...

At least 11 people have died and more than 30 are missing after a highway bridge partially collapsed during torrential rains in northwest China ... flooding and mudslides in Shaanxi's Baoji city.

Guangdong is a coastal province located in the south of China ... province's annual flooding season usually takes place in May and June. Guangdong's capital, Guangzhou, as well as smaller cities ...

TAIPEI, Taiwan--Rain continued to pelt northeastern China in the ... In the city of Yushu in Jilin province, about 120 kilometers south of Harbin, flooding forced the evacuation of around 19,000 ...

China's Ministry of Water Resources on Thursday launched a Level-IV emergency response to flooding in the provincial-level regions of Shanghai, Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Fujian as Typhoon Kong-rey ...

China routinely experiences floods during the summer, but the growth of cities and conversion of farmland into subdivisions has worsened the impact of such events. U.N. Secretary-General Antonio ...

When it comes to China, the commonly used term “second-tier cities” is a misnomer, says Robert Lawrence Kuhn, an investment banker and author of How China’s Leaders Think. The so-called ...

The bridge over a river in Shaanxi province's Shangluo city collapsed ... killed in flooding and mudslides in another part of the province. Large parts of northern and central China have been ...

While China is being hit by both natural disasters and a general economic malaise, Xi Jinping chaired a meeting of the Politburo Standing Committee. The severity of the flooding took the Chinese c ...