A fight between two food stall owners at a market in southern China left five people dead and a sixth fatally shot by police, authorities said.

Chinese TV audiences are the latest to declared their love for an Englishman – Sherlock Holmes.

Doctors in China kept a man’s severed hand alive for a month by attaching it to his leg, before restoring it to its usual position.

Multi-national company GlaxoSmithKline was today caught up in an investigation by Chinese authorities into alleged bribery of hospitals and doctors by employees of the pharmaceutical giant.

Food safety is the main concern for consumers in China’s financially significant lower-tier cities, according to a study by advertising, marketing and PR group Ogilvy & Mather.

Protests against Japan for its control of disputed islands spread across more than a dozen cities in China and turned violent at times today, with protesters hurling rocks at the Japanese Embassy and clashing with Chinese paramilitary police before order was restored.

Demonstrations against Japan broke out in at least six Chinese cities over the weekend despite efforts by authorities to rein in the growing protest movement, reports said.

More than 1,300 children have been taken ill in China's second mass lead poisoning case in a month.

Two passenger trains collided today in an accident that killed three people and injured 60 as train cars were derailed and nearby houses knocked over, Chinese state media and an official said.

A coal mine explosion and resulting fire in central China today left three miners confirmed dead and six others missing, the government said.

A MAN who was jailed for throwing paint on Mao Zedong’s portrait in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square during pro-democracy protests in 1989 has been released after nearly 17 years in prison, his family said.

A CHINESE jetliner bound from Beijing to southern China made an emergency landing yesterday after a passenger shouted that he wanted to hijack the flight to South Korea. But the unarmed man was detained and the plane took off again, state media and an airport spokeswoman said.

LADIES in red will dance on Friday in aid of the country once known as Red China.

A thunderstorm packing high winds and torrential rains hit the area around central China’s Dongting Lake today, raising the threat to already strained dikes protecting several cities and dozens of villages.

FLOODWATERS threatening several cities and dozens of villages along central China’s vast Dongting Lake held at dangerously high levels yesterday, but could rise as heavy rain was forecast.

Flood waters in central China’s vast Dongting Lake which threaten several cities and dozens of villages remained at dangerously high levels today - and could rise in the coming days as heavy rain was forecast.

CHINESE authorities have evacuated 600,000 people from around the dangerously swollen Dongting Lake as it threatens to engulf millions more, state media said yesterday.

More than 700,000 people have been evacuated from areas threatened by flooding around a huge lake in central China, but more than eight million are at risk, officials said today.

More than one million people are helping shore up dikes around a giant lake in China.

AS green floodwaters rose into homes beside a huge, rain-swollen lake in central China, yesterday, 800,000 workers were racing to shore up dykes that protect six Chinese cities and dozens of villages.

China has mobilised almost a million people to shore up dykes that protect six cities and dozens of villages from a huge, rain-swollen lake.

Six people have been killed and two others injured when fireworks in an illegal workshop exploded in southern China's Hunan province.