A Chinese company that made shoes for Ivanka Trump has denied allegations of excessive overtime and low wages made by three activists who have been arrested or disappeared.

China, one of the world’s largest corn importers, is likely to reject more US shipments of the grain after they were found to contain a genetically modified variety not approved by Beijing, traders said yesterday.

Apple will investigate allegations by advocacy group China Labour Watch that factories run by Taiwanese supplier Pegatron use underage workers, pay insufficient wages and force employees to work overtime.

Seven priests of China’s underground Roman Catholic Church have been detained for attending an unauthorised retreat following the election of the new Pope, a US-based monitoring group said today.

A gas explosion at a coal mine in northern China killed 33 people, in the latest disaster to strike the country’s accident-prone mining industry, the official Xinhua News Agency reported today.