BEIJING March 13, 2013— -- Shanghai authorities are trying to assure people of China's largest city that their drinking water is safe despite finding nearly 6,000 dead pigs in the river that ...

At least 2,800 dead pigs have been fished from a Shanghai river since Friday, but authorities insist that tap water in the city is still safe to drink.

It's a scene that reflects China's competing trends: Buddhist monks release fish into Shanghai's Huangpu River to "free" them. A few yards downstream, fishermen quickly scoop them up.

Since the beginning of the month, officials have fished out 16,000 pig carcasses found in the river that serves tap water to Shanghai. Is it really still safe to drink, as officials say?

Shanghai Buddhists are buying up live fish from the market and releasing them into the river. Local fishermen are carping about the waste of good food. Photo: The Wall Street Journal SHANGHAI—On ...

The number of dead pigs found in Shanghai's main river doubled in two days to nearly 6,000, the government said, as officials from a nearby area blamed for the porcine deluge sought to deny it was ...

The past couple of months have been unsettling ones for meat eaters in Shanghai. In March, more than 16,000 dead pigs showed up in a stretch of the Huangpu River — a main source of the city's ...

A Shanghai bus veered into a river Sunday evening, according to local media reports. On-site videos circulating online show that rescuers are managing to pull the Route 71 bus out of the river.

At least 2,800 dead pigs have been fished from a Shanghai river since Friday, but authorities insist that tap water in the city is still safe to drink.

Hong Kong (CNN) – At least 2,800 dead pigs have been fished from a Shanghai river since Friday but authorities insist that tap water in the city is still safe to drink. State news agency Xinhua ...