The Chinese government has promoted cremation for decades, arguing it preserves land, reduces costs and represents “modern” funeral practice. Cremation is commonplace in cities, but many rural ...

A Weibo post from China’s top law enforcement body juxtaposing the country’s successful launch of a module into space with grim cremation pyres in India was deleted after it sparked online criticism ...

South Korean police are seeking Interpol's assistance in apprehending two Chinese tourists accused of stealing multiple cremation urns from a temple on Jeju Island and demanding a ransom of up to US$2 ...

Traditional Chinese belief holds that an intact corpse buried in the earth allows the dead person's soul to live in peace Officials in a Chinese village dug up and set fire to a man's corpse after his ...

A popular video shows a woman who was purportedly hospitalized for the coronavirus saying she saw Chinese officials put a man who was still breathing in several plastic bags and take him away. The ...

Don't miss out on the headlines from Illness. Followed categories will be added to My News. The National Health Commission also banned burials and funerals to prevent the spread of the virus, which ...

Two Chinese officials have been arrested on suspicion of buying corpses from grave robbers in order to burn the bodies and hit government cremation targets. The crimes, which took place in the ...

MANILA, Philippines — The cremation of the remains of the Chinese national who died of severe pneumonia caused by the 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) has been delayed anew after a funeral parlor ...

MANILA, Philippines — The 44-year-old Chinese national who died February 1 in Manila due to severe pneumonia caused by the 2019 novel-coronavirus (2019-nCoV) is scheduled to be cremated on Wednesday, ...

Protests in rural China have thwarted government attempts to enforce cremation in place of traditional burials, demonstrators ...

The National Health Commission also banned burials and funerals to prevent the spread of the virus, which has now infected more than 17,300 people in at least 26 countries and killed 362. The vast ...