Some 35 restaurants across China have been found illegally using opium poppies as seasoning, one of the more unusual practices being investigated by the country’s food regulators.

MALEV, Hungarian Airlines, have introduced cheap flights from Dublin to China, with fares starting at €519 plus taxes.

China celebrated its rise to a world power over 60 years of Communist Party rule today, with its biggest-ever parade of military hardware and more than 100,000 marching masses.

A man with a knife broke into a high school dormitory and killed eight students in the deadliest of a series of knife attacks at Chinese schools in recent months, the government said today.