At least seven people have died and more than 20 were injured in an earthquake in south-west China today.

China has suffered its second bird flu death in a month, the health ministry said.

At least four people have been killed and more than 100 injured in an explosion in south-west China.

A coal mine flood in south western China trapped 21 miners underground, while a cave-in at another mine has killed at least three workers and left 19 others sealed off, officials said today.

HEAVY rain drenched a drought-ravaged swathe of southern and eastern China, killing 52 people and forcing more than 100,000 to evacuate.

At least 21 people, including 14 schoolchildren, have died in a pair of traffic accidents in China, one a pile-up of more than 100 cars in foggy weather.

An explosion caused by stored chemicals has killed six people and injured 37 at an internet cafe in southwest China.

A 10-year-old Chinese boy survived falling 20 floors from an apartment window.

A FIRE at a gold mine in eastern China trapped at least 50 people underground, though 200 miners have been lifted to safety, state news agency Xinhua said yesterday.

A LANDSLIDE caused by heavy rains trapped at least 107 people yesterday in south-west China, and there is little hope for their survival.

A landslide caused by heavy rains has trapped at least 107 people today in south-west China, and there is little hope for their survival, a local official said.

Widespread flooding in southern China has caused 175 deaths, with 107 people missing and more storms expected, the government said today.

Massive flooding in southern China has killed 132 people and forced 860,000 to flee their homes, and more storms are on the way, the government said today.

China declared a new food safety campaign today after contaminated milk products from an earlier scandal turned up repackaged in several places around the country, exposing weaknesses in the country’s promise to stop such problems from happening again.

Three dairy plant managers and one milk powder dealer in central China were arrested today for allegedly selling milk products tainted with the industrial chemical melamine, shortly after the government launched a 10-day crackdown.

China launched an emergency crackdown on contaminated milk products today after they were found on sale again despite a massive scandal that poisoned hundreds of thousands of children in 2008.

A new poisoned milk scare hit China today, just over a year after hundreds of thousands of children fell ill in a massive dairy safety scandal.

An explosion at a coal mine in south-west China killed nine workers and left one missing, less than a week after a mine blast killed at least 107.

Three miners were found alive after being trapped for 25 days in a flooded mine in southern China.

THOUSANDS of rioters torched police and government office buildings in south-west China, in unrest triggered by allegations of a cover-up over a girl’s death.

At least 55 people have died and seven are missing in flooding across a broad stretch of southern China, state media reported today.

China put nearly half a million soldiers to work clearing roads today as the country struggled to cope with winter storms that have brought it to a virtual standstill.

An explosion aboard a bus killed 11 people early today in southern China, a government news agency reported.

An underground flood in a coal mine in southern China has killed 18 miners, a government news agency reported today.

Flooding in a mountainous area of southern China has killed at least 30 people and destryed more than 2,400 homes.

Landslides triggered by torrential rain in southern China have killed at least 12 people and injured 24, while thousands of residents escaped unhurt after a rain-swollen river flooded their villages, the government said today, as the region braced for more heavy rain.

At least 55 people have been killed and 12 are missing amid the worst flooding in eastern China in three decades, the government said today.

Fourteen miners were killed when gas caught fire at an illegal coal pit in south-west China.

The deaths of two more people in China and two in Turkey have brought the global toll from bird flu to 78, the World Health Organisation said today as it urged stepped-up preparation in case the illness turns into a pandemic strain.

World Health Organisation officials say they are trying to determine why the bird flu outbreak in Turkey has spread so quickly among humans, especially children.

A blast at a coal mine in southern China killed 15 people, the official Xinhua News Agency said today.

The death toll in a coal mine fire in central China rose to 18 today after the bodies of the last missing miners were found by rescuers.

The death toll in a coal mine explosion in central China rose to 166 today, making it the deadliest accident to hit the country’s disaster-plagued mining industry in recent years.

A bus plunged off a cliff in southern China, killing 13 people and injuring five others.

A gas explosion in a southern Chinese coal mine killed 24 miners today.

At least 29 people have been killed in southern China by a landslide that buried two buildings where road workers were sleeping.

A landslide in south-western China buried 30 road workers, the official Xinhua News Agency reported today, but there was no immediate word on whether any died.

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.

The Chinese authorities have executed four men for their roles in a child smuggling operation that abducted and sold dozens of children over a two-year period.

A bus has plunged off a sharp bend in a mountain road in south-west China, killing 28 passengers.