Shanghai city officials have closed more than 60 parks and the city zoo as residents wade through flood waters after heavy rains hit the financial hub in the aftermath of Typhoon Fitow.

A typhoon has slammed into south-eastern China with powerful winds and heavy rains that cut power, cancelled flights and suspended train services.

A surgeon in China says he has built an extra nose out of a man’s rib cartilage and implanted it under the skin of his forehead to prepare for a transplant, in what is probably the first operation of its kind.

There is a warning a super typhoon, moving towards Hong Kong and China, could cause serious damage.

Chinese police have broken a crime ring that passed off over $1m (€762,380) in rat and small mammal meat as mutton, authorities said, in a food safety crackdown that coincides with a bird flu outbreak and other environmental pressures.

A national operation in China has busted nine child abduction gangs, arresting 355 suspects and rescuing 89 children.

Seventeen people were killed and three were left seriously injured when a long-distance bus overturned and plunged down a deep ravine in China, state media reported.

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TYPHOON Muifa pounded China’s commercial capital of Shanghai with high winds and heavy rain while more than 400,000 residents along the country’s east coast were moved to shelter and tens of thousands of fishing boats were recalled to port.

Taiwanese rescuers abseiled down a rocky ridge today as they searched for 21 Chinese tourists whose bus is believed to have tumbled off a narrow coastal road last week during a fierce typhoon that lashed east Asia.

Thousands of residents were evacuated as a powerful typhoon struck Taiwan, flooding the southern part of the island, crippling transport and shutting off power.

A Chinese court sentenced a man to death today for an attack on a school that left 29 children and three kindergarten teachers hurt last month.

AN attacker with a cleaver hacked to death seven children and two adults at a kindergarten in north-west China yesterday, the latest in a string of savage assaults on the country’s schools. Eleven other children were wounded.

Seven children and a teacher were hacked to death and at least 20 others injured today at a kindergarten in China’s north-west Shaanxi province.

A knife-wielding maniac stabbed 18 pupils and a teacher at a Chinese school today even as another man was executed for killing eight children in a similar attack last month.

Police arrested nine people in southwest China suspected of trafficking mentally ill people to be murdered in mines across the country in a bid to blackmail mine owners into paying compensation, a local official said.

RESCUERS in Taiwan have found nearly 1,000 people alive in the area around three remote villages devastated by Typhoon Morakot, which pummelled the island over the weekend, the country’s military said.

A TYPHOON-spawned mudslide engulfed a mountain village in southern Taiwan, burying up to 600 people, a police official and a rescued villager said.

A TYPHOON pummelled China’s eastern coast yesterday, toppling houses, flooding villages and forcing nearly a million people to flee to safety.

A typhoon slammed into China’s eastern coast today, forcing the evacuation of nearly a million people.

Revellers celebrating a birthday set off fireworks inside a bar in southern China, triggering a blaze that killed 15 people and injured 20.

Pandas living in an earthquake-hit area of south west China have been evacuated to temporary shelters because of the continuing threat of landslides and other hazards, a local forestry bureau report said today.

Typhoon Krosa roared ashore today on China’s south-east coast after more than one million people were evacuated, the government announced.

Typhoon Wipha slammed into the Chinese coast today, flooding streets and fields and causing massive transport disruptions.

Typhoon Wipha slammed into the Chinese coast this morning as authorities evacuated two million people following forecasts it would be the most powerful storm to hit the area in a decade.

Shanghai closed schools and 1.6 million people were evacuated from coastal areas today as Typhoon Wipha, forecast to be the most powerful storm to hit the region, thrashed toward the Chinese mainland.

More than 540,000 people evacuated low-lying areas along China’s southeast coast as Typhoon Sepat roared toward the mainland today after battering Taiwan.

Communities in south-eastern China are straining to resettle more than 15 million people left homeless by four devastating typhoons in the past few months, the official Xinhua News Agency reported today.

China’s death toll from Typhoon Saomai rose to at least 214 today after a hard-hit province announced it had confirmed 80 more fatalities.

THE death toll from Typhoon Saomai — the strongest storm to hit China in 50 years — rose to 114 yesterday as more evacuees died when buildings used as shelters collapsed, authorities said.

China’s death toll from Typhoon Saomai rose to 114 today as authorities said some victims were evacuees who died when buildings used as shelters collapsed in the strongest storm to hit China in more than five decades.

South-east China braced for more torrential rain today after Typhoon Saomai slammed into the region, killing 105 people and leaving another 190 missing.

China’s death toll from Typhoon Saomai rose to at least 104 today, with another 190 missing, as the most powerful storm to strike the country in five decades weakened into a tropical depression.

TYPHOON Saomai, the most powerful storm to hit China in five decades, raged ashore yesterday and churned across the crowded south-east, killing at least two people, wrecking houses and capsizing ships after 1.5 million residents were evacuated.

Typhoon Saomai, the most powerful storm to hit China in five decades, raged ashore today and churned across the crowded south-east, killing at least two people, wrecking houses and capsizing ships after 1.5 million residents were evacuated.

Authorities evacuated 1.3 million people from areas along China’s south-eastern coast today ahead of the arrival of Typhoon Saomai.

China’s death toll from Tropical Storm Prapiroon has jumped to 48, with 15 more people missing, after the storm knocked down houses and set off landslides and flash floods, news reports said.

The death toll from Tropical Storm Prapiroon rose to six in south China today as the storm weakened further into a tropical depression but continued to drench an area where 400,000 people had been evacuated.

Tropical Storm Prapiroon left five people dead in south China, official media reported today, as high winds and heavy rain lashed an area where 400,000 people had earlier been evacuated.

Typhoon Prapiroon roared towards southern China today packing winds of up to 80 mph.

China’s death toll from tropical storm Bilis more than doubled to 482 today after a hard-hit province reported a sharp rise in fatalities, the official Xinhua News Agency said.

Tropical storm Bilis killed at least 115 people and injured hundreds more as it churned across China’s south-east, toppling houses and forcing authorities to evacuate a prison and thousands of villagers, reports in Beijing said today.

China ordered ships to take shelter, cancelled flights and evacuated 256,000 people as tropical storm Bilis churned toward its southern coast today.