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BEIJING (Reuters): Intense rains lashed a scenic area in China's southern Hunan province on Friday, unleashing flooding that swept away cars, engulfed farmland and prompted evacuations and rescues ...

Storms have pummeled Hunan since the beginning of the ... Chongqing and Yunnan, Xinhua said. China regularly experiences flooding during the summer months, most frequently in central and southern ...

HUNAN, Central China — “Your whole village will need to be relocated ... For the government, the sheer scale of the damage — and the prospect of another flood season looming on the horizon — has made ...

The world's largest earth pressure balance (EPB) double shield hybrid tunnel boring machine, or TBM, was officially rolled ...

The Ecology and Environment Department of Hunan in Central China issued on Tuesday a notice on the emergency treatment of abnormal thallium concentrations in the Chenzhou-Leiyang section of the ...

Soldiers from the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) salvaging agricultural machines trapped in silt at the Shalan Township June 14, 2005. By 3:30 PM on June 14, the death toll of the flood ...

China is in the middle of its peak flood season, which runs from mid-July ... killed at least 48 people in Hunan province and left 35 others missing last week. Authorities said Friday that ...

China should also reinforce the infrastructure ... At least 13 people have died as the result of flooding and landslides in Hunan, according to state news agency Xinhua. On Monday, the Hunan ...

An aerial drone photo taken on March 19, 2025 shows a view of a marketplace in Biancheng Town of Huayuan County, Xiangxi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture, central China's Hunan Province.

Local residents buy breakfast at a marketplace in Biancheng Town of Huayuan County, Xiangxi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture, central China's Hunan Province, March 19, 2025. Biancheng Town of ...