At least 42 people died when a passenger jet overshot a runway in north-east China today and burst into flames.

An airliner with 91 people on board crashed in north-east China today.

Police say a man suspected of being mentally ill stabbed a pedestrian to death and injured 11 other people in north-eastern China before officers shot and killed him today.

A gas explosion tore through a coal mine in northern China today, killing 31 people and trapping 82 others nearly a third of a mile under ground, government authorities said.

China urged its citizens to be “calm” and “rational” as nationalistic protests against French supermarket Carrefour spread today to more cities across the country.

A pig whose genes were altered to make it glow fluorescent green has passed on the trait to its piglets, a Chinese university reported today.

EIGHTY-FOUR Siberian tigers, among the world’s rarest animals, have been born since March at a northeastern China breeding centre, an official said yesterday.

BUILDING materials group CRH says it has the capacity to spend 2bn plus a year for the next few years on acquisitions.

ISEQ-listed building material group CRH has announced it has the go-ahead to complete the purchase of a cement-making plant in China.

A HALF-mile section of China’s Yellow River turned “red and smelly” after an unknown discharge was poured into it from a sewage pipe.

A TOXIC spill from China reached Khabarovsk in Russia yesterday, and the region’s governor appealed for calm in the Far Eastern Russian city, where residents have crammed their apartments with bottles, pails, pans and even bathtubs full of fresh water.

A toxic spill from a chemical plant explosion in China reached the Russian city of Khabarovsk today, a regional government official said.

China’s southern business capital of Guangzhou, just north of Hong Kong, was rushing today to safeguard its water supply as a toxic spill from a smelter flowed toward the city of seven million people, state media said.

A toxic spill from a Chinese factory is now threatening the Russian city of Khabarovsk, where 580,000 people now face pollution and the possibility that their heating may have to be switched off despite sub-zero temperatures.

The toxic spill that poisoned a Chinese river and forced Chinese authorities to cut off drinking water for millions has crossed the Russian border, Russian media reported today.

Patients leapt from the windows of a four-storey hospital in northeastern China to escape a fire that killed at least 39 people, the government said today.

Fire swept a hospital in China today, killing at least 33 people including patients, official media said.

China is considering building a dam to reduce the impact of a river-borne toxic spill expected to arrive in a Russian city early next week, a government newspaper said today.

The head of a Chinese chemical company blamed for a toxic spill that poisoned a major river and strained relations with Russia has been removed from his post, the company said today.

Another city in north east China has shut down a water plant on a poisoned river fearing contamination from approaching toxic chemicals, an official said today.

Beijing tried to ease strains with Moscow over a river-borne toxic spill flowing toward Russia by today promising to send filtering materials, while five more Chinese cities prepared to stop drawing water from the river.

Residents of a town along a poisoned river in northern China today queued with jugs and buckets to get water from trucks after officials shut down running water to 26,000 people.

ANOTHER town on a poisoned Chinese river shut down its water system yesterday as a toxic slick caused by a chemical plant explosion arrived and the country’s health minister warned that the spill was still a major problem.

Another town on a poisoned Chinese river shut down its water system today as a toxic slick caused by a chemical plant explosion arrived.

China’s top health official today said the pollution of the Songhua River by a chemical spill was a big problem which has highlighted the country’s need to have contingency plans for emergencies.

A massive chemical spill was headed downriver from China to Russia’s Far East today, as officials sought to reassure residents of a Chinese city that their water was safe to drink after being shut off for five days as the pollutants flowed past.

The death toll in a coal mine accident in north east China rose to 138 with 11 others still missing today as anxious relatives demanded to be allowed into the mine.

Anxious relatives of missing miners demanded to be allowed into a coal mine today after an explosion killed at least 134 people and left rescuers searching for 15 others, adding to a soaring death toll in China’s mines despite a national safety crackdown.

Coal dust caught fire in a mine in northeast China, sparking an explosion that killed at least 68 people and left 79 missing, the government said today, as the country’s leadership called for tighter work safety measures.

RUNNING water was restored in the Chinese city of Harbin yesterday after a chemical spill forced a five-day shutdown, but officials warned it was not immediately safe to drink.

THE Chinese authorities yesterday faced an unexpected degree of criticism from the usually docile media over the handling of a chemical spill that has left millions without water.

Chinese leaders sent a team to investigate a chemical plant accident today that has poisoned a major river and said those officials responsible for the pollution will be punished.

China’s leaders today sent a team to investigate a chemical plant accident that poisoned a major river and said officials responsible will be punished.

China’s biggest oil company apologised for an explosion that polluted a north-eastern river with benzene and prompted the government to cut off running water to 3.8 million people, while another blast in the country’s south-west raised fears today of a second toxic spill.

A SLICK of river-borne toxins from a chemical plant explosion flowed into a major Chinese city yesterday as the authorities faced increasing criticism of their handling of the situation.

A long stretch of river carrying toxins from a chemical plant explosion today flowed into a Chinese city where authorities shut off water supply to millions of residents for fear that the pollution could cause cancer.

A CHINESE city of 3.8 million people closed schools and was trucking in drinking water yesterday after shutting down its water system following a chemical plant explosion that officials said polluted a river with toxic benzene.

A Chinese city of 3.8 million people closed schools and was trucking in drinking water today after shutting down its water system following a chemical plant explosion that officials said polluted a nearby river with toxic benzene.

A Chinese city of 3 million people has set off panic-buying of bottled water by announcing its water system will be shut down for four days to check for contamination from a chemical plant explosion.