Beijing  - An aftershock Monday shook a rising, earthquake-created lake in China that threatens 1.3 million people downstream.

Beijing  - Drainage of the dangerous Tangjiashan "quake lake" in Sichuan Province has gone smoothly since Saturday, but the local government remained on on high alert, state-run media said Sunday.

Army engineers fired missiles to blast boulders in a man-made sluice channel to accelerate water drainage, Xinhua news agency said.

The agency said water flowing through the sluice channel widened from previously less than five metres to about 9 metres.

Beijing  - China's rising grain demand is poised to exacerbate the global food crisis over the next years.

Beijing  - Chinese engineers Saturday began to release water out of Tangjiashan lake formed by a huge landslide during the Sichuan earthquake.

Beijing, June 6 : It was an emotional moment for 97-year-old Ji Xianlin when visiting Indian Foreign Minister Pranab Mukherjee handed over the coveted Padma Bhushan award to him at the People's Lib