The Badminton World Federation (BWF) have launched disciplinary proceedings after four women’s doubles pairs apparently tried to throw matches at London 2012.

A bus taking primary school pupils home has slipped off a country road into an irrigation ditch in eastern China, killing 15 children and highlighting continuing safety problems in the country’s school transport system.

Ronnie O'Sullivan's miserable run continued today as he was eliminated from the Bank of Beijing China Open at the first-round stage.

China said it has faith in the safety of its nuclear power technology and will not scrap plans to expand its domestic industry because of Japan’s crisis.

Andrew Higginson romped to a 5-0 win over Li Yan in the Wildcard round of the Sanyuan Foods China Open to set up a first-round clash with Stephen Hendry.

A Chinese court condemned two men to death today and handed a life term to a former dairy boss in the first sentences for those involved in the country’s contaminated milk scandal.

THE chairwoman of a Chinese dairy company went on trial yesterday over a tainted milk scandal that has killed at least six children and made thousands ill.

The former chairwoman of the dairy company at the heart of China’s tainted milk scandal went on trial today on charges of selling fake or substandard products.

China's health minister said today tainted milk formula had killed three babies and made 6,200 ill in a spreading scandal that prompted three additional companies - including the country's biggest dairy - to recall products.

Explosions rocked a county in western China, killing at least two people amid tightened security following an attack last week before the start of the Beijing Olympics.

A Chinese army officer has warned that Islamic separatists are the biggest threat to the Olympics.