The property includes several group and individual tombs - totalling about 30 individual tombs - from the later period of the Koguryo Kingdom, one of the strongest kingdoms in nowadays northeast China and half of the Korean peninsula between the 3rd century BC to 7th century AD.

UNESCO: Culture

In 1959, a vast new oil field in the grasslands of northeast China, in Manchuria, was discovered.

FORBES: Oil and China

Established in 1991, the free trade zone covers about 750 sq km in the extreme northeast corner of North Korea, bordering Russia and China.

CNN: Nowhere to Go But Up

The plant in northeast China's Jilin province was still burning as of noon local time, the official Xinhua news agency said, citing local sources.

WSJ: Poultry-Plant Fire in China Kills at Least 112 People

What we do know is that the primary foreign policy imperative for China is its sphere of influence in northeast Asia, not the regime per se.

FORBES: What is China thinking?

Officially tolerated smuggling buttresses the formal trade between them, while North Korea earns much-needed hard currency from thousands of North Koreans who work in northeast China and a similar number of Chinese tourists and advisers visiting the other side.

NPR: North Korea Nuke Test Could Test China's Patience

Ms. Lu, a graduate student, was from the rust belt city of Shenyang in China's northeast.

WSJ: China Mourns Boston Marathon Victim

That concern is especially pronounced in Northeast Asia, the industrial heartland of the new global economy, because countries like China can afford to buy the latest military hardware.

FORBES: Japan Fighter Buy Bolsters U.S. Leverage In Asia

September 18th is the anniversary of an incident in 1931 that led to Japan's occupation of northeast China.

ECONOMIST: Trouble over some caprine islands

In other domestic news, China Daily says authorities in Baishan in northeast Jilin "lied" in under-reporting the number of deaths in the first of two explosions at a coal mine on 29 March in order to evade harsher penalties.

BBC: China media: North Korea speculation