Japan is facing its most severe security environment since World War II as three potential adversaries in East Asia – China, ...

On the Edge of the North China Plain The city has shifted location several times in the past several thousand years, but the spatial dimensions have remained fairly constant over time.

Siberia offers a tantalizing prize with fewer immediate risks. Its vast reserves of oil, gas, gold, diamonds, rare earth minerals and fresh water are critical to sustaining China’s resource-strapped ...

ON THE ARID north China plain around Beijing, people usually complain there is too little water, rather than too much. But in recent weeks a typhoon named Doksuri made its way unusually far inland ...

Recently, a research team led by Prof. XIE Pinhua from the Hefei lnstitutes of Physical Science of the Chinese Academy of ...

More than a million people have been forced from their homes by the remnants of a storm in China’s northeastern Hebei province, according to state media, as officials warned it could take a ...

BEIJING, Aug 9 (Reuters) - Extreme rainfall and severe flooding in China led to a near doubling in economic losses from natural disasters in July from a year earlier, the government said.

The country north of Han nor, as far as Shih-pa-erh t’ai, where we turned to the west, is a rolling plateau, covered with short, coarse grass, and greatly resembles our Western plains.

U.N. Security Council sanctions ban the use of North Korean labor, over concerns remittances fuel Kim Jong Un's nuclear and missile programs.

A sizable portion of China’s population and heavy industry—and about 40 percent of its farmland—are on the North China Plain. Yet the region has less than 10 percent of the country’s water.

This silted base, the edge of the North China Plain, was built up over time by the sand carried downstream through the mountains by the Yongding River in the west and the Chaobai River in the east.