China’s stock-market rout that erased $5 trillion (€4.48tn) in value is close to ending, according to the nation’s central bank governor.

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China’s central bank governor Zhou Xiaochuan warned yesterday that the country needs to be vigilant for signs of deflation and said policymakers were closely watching slowing global economic growth and declining commodity prices.

A woman giving evidence from a wheelchair in the Boston Marathon bombing trial has recalled shielding her husband from the sight of his mangled leg.

Somewhat slower growth will allow a reforming Chinese economy to become more stable and should be good news, the head of China’s central bank said yesterday, after the country announced its lowest expansion rate in 24 years.

CHINA: Upset by a delayed flight, at least two Chinese passengers decided to open emergency exit doors in protest as the plane was taxiing, forcing it to abort takeoff and landing them in jail instead, police said yesterday.

A former top general in China has been expelled from the ruling Communist Party to face bribery charges, becoming the most senior figure ensnared in an anti-corruption crackdown.

A former top general in China has been expelled from the ruling Communist Party to face bribery charges, becoming the most senior figure ensnared in an anti-corruption crackdown.

China has signed a long-awaited, 30-year deal to buy Russian natural gas worth $400bn.

A man involved in a property dispute has stabbed six people to death in China and injured more, police said.

A keeper at Shanghai’s zoo was mauled to death by a rare South China tiger after entering its enclosure to clean it, officials said.

China’s top leaders have backed a corruption investigation into Zhou Yongkang, a former security tsar and one of the country’s most powerful politicians of the past decade, according to a report.

A man who strangled a baby boy after realising the infant was in the back seat of a car he had just stolen has been sentenced to death in a north-eastern Chinese court, concluding a case which had triggered public anger.

An armed robber suspected of killing nine people has been shot dead by police in China, authorities said today.

The head of China’s central bank said there is room to ease curbs on bank lending to support economic growth but gave no indication when regulators plan to do that.

China will continue to invest in eurozone government debt and it remains confident in the euro, the country’s central bank governor said yesterday, while calling on Europeans to produce more attractive investment products for China.

HE HAS felt the fury of a Bosphoros battle and the passion of a north London derby, but little in Nicolas Anelka’s travels will have prepared him for his groundbreaking move to Chinese soccer.

The Chinese leadership’s law-and-order chief is warning that China is ill-prepared for social unrest generated by changes in the economy, in the latest sign that the government is worried about the consequences of flagging growth.

A man suspected of killing 10 people, including his wife, father and son, has been captured by police in north-east China.

A Chinese man has become an internet sensation by driving around in his car with a catheter pole sticking out of the window.

CHINA yesterday disputed that it had surpassed the United States last year to become the world’s largest energy user, and defended its efforts in boosting cleaner energy sources.

A man armed with a meat cleaver killed seven children and two adults at a Chinese nursery today, the latest in a series of savage assaults on the country's schools.

A new species of bird found in a network of underground caves in China raised hopes the country could become a hotspot for other new discoveries, scientists said today.

Parents whose children were crushed to death in schools that collapsed in China’s mighty earthquake say they are no longer being allowed to march, wave banners and vent their rage in public.

A British landslide expert today urged China to immediately evacuate hundreds of thousands of people from the path of a giant dam he fears is ready to burst.

Rescue workers sifted through tangled debris of toppled schools and homes today for thousands of victims buried or missing after China’s worst earthquake in three decades, as the death toll soared to more than 12,000 people in the hardest-hit province alone.

A rush-hour explosion on a Shanghai bus killed at least three people and injured more than 20 today, state media said.

China said today that its efforts to improve the environment were starting to show results, after emissions of a major air pollutant fell.

CHINESE authorities have torn down a couple’s house after a three-year standoff that captivated the nation, a witness and state media said yesterday.

Chinese authorities have torn down a stubborn couple’s house after a three-year stand-off that captivated the nation.

A 27-year-old Dublin man was convicted of the murder of a Chinese student by a jury in the Central Criminal Court tonight.

The girlfriend of a Chinese man allegedly murdered with a meat cleaver by an intruder told a Central Criminal Court jury her boyfriend stumbled into her room bleeding at the chest.

CHINA may increase the flexibility of the yuan should the country’s trade surplus continue to expand this year, central bank governor Zhou Xiaochuan said.

A Chinese tycoon who was the youngest person on the 400-member Forbes China Rich List last year was sentenced to life in prison today for fraud involving millions of dollars, the official Xinhua News Agency said.

Finance ministers and central bankers from the Group of Seven industrialised economies gathered today to take stock of global economic health amid worries that a US slowdown may stifle global growth.

Chinese authorities have paid compensation to the mother of a 15-year-old boy who was beaten to death by police amid the military crackdown on pro-democracy protests in 1989, an activist said today.

China today reported that a 41-year-old woman has become the country’s newest human fatality from the virulent H5N1 strain of bird flu.

BIRD flu has killed at least one person in China, officials said yesterday, confirming the spread of the deadly virus to people in another large Asian country where it might prove hard to contain.

Some the world’s major central bankers have warned the US that the international community could be running out of patience with the massive US budget and trade deficits that have pushed the dollar lower and increased the cost of their exports in America.

Five people were executed today for killing a former vice president of Hong Kong-based satellite broadcaster Phoenix Television and four others during a robbery.

Two former flatmates of a young couple who were allegedly strangled and then had their bodies burned have identified a man accused of the double murder as the person shown on CCTV footage of the entrance to the apartment.

A 2,000-year-old female corpse has been unearthed in China.

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