Chinese police dragged away more than 100 parents today as they were protesting the deaths of their children in poorly constructed schools that collapsed in last month’s earthquake.

Parents whose only child was killed or maimed in China’s earthquake will be allowed to have another, officials who administer the country’s one-child policy said today.

The Tibetan government-in-exile has asked for a temporary stop to protests against China as the country grapples with the aftermath of an earthquake that has killed 40,000 and left millions more homeless.

China today admitted the death toll from this week’s earthquake could be higher than 50,000.

China issued a rare public appeal for rescue equipment today as it struggled to cope with the aftermath of this week’s earthquake.

The Chinese government has pronounced the Zipingpu Reservoir dam safe after it was inspected by experts.

Thousands of troops are tonight fighting to plug dangerous cracks in a dam above an earthquake-hit Chinese town.

More than 50,000 people may have died in China’s earthquake, the government admitted today.

China began airlifting aid today to the areas worst hit by a massive earthquake, as new reports of casualties were poised to push the death toll close to 20,000.

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.

The official death toll in the Chinese earthquake rose to 12,000 today with thousands more still missing amid reports of strong aftershocks in the region.

Chinese state media have reported that 10,000 people “remain buried” in Mianzhu near the epicentre of the earthquake that has already killed about 10,000.

The death toll from a powerful earthquake in central China has climbed to nearly 10,000 in the worst-hit province, state news reports said today.

TENS of thousands of people were feared dead last night in a huge earthquake that shattered central China.

Tens of thousands of people were feared dead tonight in a huge earthquake that shattered central China.

Rescuers recovered more than 30 bodies at the site of a highway construction accident in southwestern China, bringing the death toll to 42, the government said today.

A gas explosion at a road construction site in south-western China today killed 11 workers and left 20 missing, the government said.