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 ...

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.

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 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 ...

In Qibao, an old river town on the outskirts of Shanghai, officials have deployed more than 2,700 staff and volunteers to check temperatures and monitor traffic as they work to contain the ...

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.

SHANGHAI — River cruise giant Viking's move into ocean cruising hit another milestone on Thursday as the company officially named its fourth ocean ship, Viking Sun, along the riverfront area of ...

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?

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.

The Yangtze River Delta (YRD which includes Shanghai), one of the major engines of China’s economic growth, has a level of urbanisation that sees it at the head of the national league. At present, a ...

BEIJING Authorities recovered hundreds more dead pigs from a river that provides drinking water to Shanghai, China's financial hub, bringing the total to more than 6,600 since last Friday. Authorities ...

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.