THEIR faces black with coal dust, 19 miners trapped underground for a week were pulled to safety yesterday in northeastern China as rescuers searched for three missing colleagues.

A RARE Siberian tiger attacked and killed a tour bus driver in northern China while horrified passengers watched.

More than 200 commercial pilots working for Chinese airlines faked their CVs, it was reported today.

At least one airline had questioned the safety of night-time landings at the relatively new airport in north-east China where a passenger jet crashed and burned while trying to land at night on a fog-shrouded runway, killing 42 people and injuring 54, it was revealed today.

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

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.

A MASSIVE explosion ripped through a fireworks factory in China yesterday killing at least 13 workers.

A massive explosion ripped through a fireworks factory in China today killing at least 13 workers.

Grieving miners’ families demanded answers today from mining officials about the underground gas explosion that left at least 104 men dead in northeastern China.

Rescuers worked in frigid cold to reach 21 miners trapped underground today as the death toll from a huge gas explosion in a northern Chinese mine jumped to 87 - the deadliest blast to hit the beleaguered industry in nearly two years.

A Chinese milk company knew their product was contaminated with a dangerous chemical six weeks ago, but did nothing to remove it from shop shelves according to a major shareholder.

Building materials group CRH has bought a 26% shareholding in Shanghai-listed Jilin Yatai group's cement operations (Yatai Cement) for €200m.

The ISEQ Index hit a record high yesterday with CRH and FBD leading the charge. The Dublin exchange closed 106.92 points stronger at 9,718.75.

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

Seven construction workers were killed when a lift fell 14 storeys at a building site in north-eastern China.

More than 14,000 police and firefighters were struggling today to douse a blaze raging through China's largest remaining virgin forest, the government said.

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.

After three days of searching, rescuers at a collapsed coal mine in northeast China still couldn’t agree on the number of miners missing – further underlining the government’s lack of success in improving safety in the disaster-plagued industry.

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.

A private Chinese company plans to build the country’s first oil pipeline to Russia, state media said today, underscoring growing Chinese interest in tapping Siberian petroleum resources.

Nearly 900,000 people have been evacuated from two regions of southern China where at least 46 have died in flooding that was the worst in a century for some areas, the government said today.

The death toll in torrential flooding in a mountainous region of southern China has risen to 32, while more than 300,000 people were evacuated following the worst flooding to hit the area in a century, news reports said today.

Shanghai is trying to make it rain by firing chemicals into clouds in the hope of snapping an electricity-draining heat wave, but early attempts have largely failed.

A gas explosion in a northeastern Chinese coal mine has killed at least 39 miners today, the latest tragedy to strike the nation’s notoriously deadly mining industry.

The death toll in a northeastern China coal mine blast blamed on faulty ventilation has risen to 115, the official Xinhua News Agency reported today.