The number of dead pigs found in a Shanghai river that provides drinking water to the Chinese financial hub has risen to 7,545, after local authorities retrieved 944 more pigs yesterday.

IRISH property company China Real Estate Opportunities Limited has seen its property holdings in China increase in value to €872.4 million, an increase of €70m in just six months.

CHINA told Japan bluntly yesterday that it had nothing to apologise for after weeks of anti-Japanese protests, some violent, in cities across the country.