A massive explosion hit a food shop in eastern China during the breakfast rush on Friday, killing two people and injuring 55 others, 12 of them seriously, officials said.

Rescue crews have been ordered to evacuate the site of a deadly landslide in south-western China amid concerns of a second landslide.

The worldwide "ransomware" cyber attack has spread to thousands more computers as people across Asia logged in at work, disrupting businesses, schools, hospitals and daily life.

China has ordered the closure of live poultry markets in south-central regions after the deaths of at least 87 people in the worst outbreak of bird flu in years.

China has launched a renewed crackdown on golf, closing 111 courses and telling members of the ruling Communist Party to stay off the links in an effort to conserve water and land.

China has said it is willing to have constructive dialogue with the Vatican - as long as its Catholics are loyal to Beijing and their religion is adapted to Chinese society.

A Chinese lawyer has been jailed for seven years in the third in a series of subversion trials demonstrating the ruling Communist Party's determination to silence independent human rights activists and government critics.

A court in China has imposed a three-year suspended sentence on a human rights activist charged with subversion of state power, following a brief trial.

A gas leak at a coal mine in north-east China has killed 12 miners, state media reported.

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Bulldozers unexpectedly demolished part of a hospital and its adjoining morgue in central China, sending doctors, nurses, and patients fleeing and burying under rubble six bodies being processed at the morgue, said reports.

Shanghai’s stock index plunged nearly 7% today, sparking a halt in trading of Chinese shares, after weak manufacturing data and Middle East tensions weighed on Asian markets.

Rescuers were searching for at least 91 missing people a day after a mountain of excavated soil and construction waste buried dozens of buildings when it swept through an industrial park in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen on Sunday.

President Xi Jinping has said that China needs at least 6.5% economic growth in coming years to become “moderately prosperous”.

China’s ruling Communist Party has decided to allow all couples to have two children, abolishing a policy that limited many urban couples to only one child for more than three decades.

Faced with a renewed stock market slide that has wiped out €4.4tn in trading value, China is again on the prowl for scapegoats.

An explosion at a chemical plant in eastern China has killed one person and injured nine others, a state news agency reported.

Four people have been detained in connection with a sex video purportedly taken inside a Uniqlo fitting room that spread rapidly online, Beijing police said.

China’s government has alleged that more than 100 minority Muslim Uighurs who were sent back by Thailand after fleeing China were on their way to fight in the Middle East and that some were implicated in terrorist activities at home.

Divers have pulled three people alive from inside a capsized cruise ship in China and are searching for other survivors, state media said.

A fire at a care home in central China has killed 38 people and injured six, according to state media.

The man that French rescuers freed from the ruins of a three-storey Kathmandu hotel more than three days after the quake, said he drank his own urine to survive.

Authorities have curbed some travel from mainland China to Hong Kong to cool tensions over a growing influx of shoppers that has angered residents of the Asian financial hub.

A nursing home worker in China accused of killing three elderly residents with a brick and injuring 15 other people had argued with his boss over unpaid wages.

A former mining tycoon who led a mafia-style crime gang that ran casinos and killed rivals has been executed along with four of the gang’s members, a court in central China said.

Twenty-two people have died after a tugboat on a test voyage capsized in eastern China with an international crew on board, officials said.

The son of actor Jackie Chan pleaded guilty in a Beijing court to providing a venue for drug users and was sentenced to six months in jail.

Ten construction workers were killed and four others injured when scaffolding collapsed at one of Beijing’s most prestigious high schools, Chinese officials said.

The top aide to former Chinese president Hu Jintao has been placed under investigation for disciplinary violations, the official Xinhua News Agency said.

A former deputy head of the agency that steers China’s state-dominated economy has been sentenced to life in prison for taking bribes, adding to a growing toll of prominent figures ensnared in a spreading anti-corruption crackdown.

An underground fire has killed 24 coal miners in China, state media has said.

A rare Siberian tiger released into the wild by Russian President Vladimir Putin has attacked a henhouse in north-eastern China, raising concerns that farmers may hunt it down.

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A strong, shallow earthquake has shaken Yunnan province in south-west China, killing at least one person.

A court has fined British drug maker GlaxoSmithKline three billion yuan (€380m) and sentenced its British former manager in China and others to prison for bribing doctors and hospitals to use its products, a state news agency reported.

The death toll from a powerful earthquake that hit southern China four days ago has risen to 615, with 114 other people missing.

Chinese authorities are investigating two Canadians citizens on suspicion of stealing state secrets about China’s military and national defence research.

Rescuers have found scores of survivors as they dug through homes shattered by an earthquake in southern China that killed at least 398 people and injured more than 1,800.

A strong earthquake in southern China’s Yunnan province toppled thousands of homes yesterday, killing at least 367 people and injuring more than 1,800.

At least 357 people have been killed following a strong earthquake in south west China.

A strong earthquake in south western China has killed at least 26 people and injured 79.

68 people were killed and nearly 200 others injured, most with severe burns, after an explosion today at a car parts factory in eastern China that supplies General Motors.