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A man with a knife killed three children and wounded five more and a teacher in a primary school in China, on the first day of a new term after the summer holidays.

A man with a kitchen knife has killed a one-year-old boy and injured two other children in the southern Chinese city of Zhongshan near Hong Kong, police said.

China has suffered another multiple stabbing attack, with seven people reported killed in a village in a central province.

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A woman survived 16 days at the bottom of a disused well in China by eating raw corn and drinking rainwater.

A Chinese zoo’s supposed “African lion” was exposed as a fraud when the dog used as a substitute started barking.

At least nine people have died when fireworks for Chinese New Year celebrations exploded on a lorry in central China, destroying part of an elevated motorway and sending vehicles plummeting 100ft to the ground.

Fireworks for Chinese New Year celebrations have exploded on a lorry in central China, destroying part of an elevated motorway and sending vehicles plummeting 100ft to the ground.

Police said 22 children and one adult have been injured in a knife attack outside a primary school in central China.

Taiwan’s Foxconn Technology Group, which assembles Apple’s iPhones and makes components for top global electronics companies, closed a plant in China after about 2,000 workers were involved in a riot at a company dormitory.

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Forty-five grimy, exhausted Chinese coal miners trapped by a cave-in were rescued today, ending a 36-hour ordeal in the world's most dangerous country for the industry. Eight other miners were killed in the accident.

Rescuers are trying to reach 50 miners trapped after a cave-in at a coal pit in central China, official say.

Rescuers pulled seven injured miners to the surface and were trying to reach 50 others trapped after a rock explosion in a coal mine in central China, state media reported.

A CHINESE man has been detained on suspicion of keeping six women in secret underground rooms as his sex slaves for two years and killing two of them.

A Chinese man has been detained on suspicion of keeping six women in secret underground rooms as his sex slaves for two years and killing two of them.

A mentally disturbed man armed with an axe attacked children and parents in a city street in central China today, killing six people, local officials said.

AUTHORITIES in China rescued 30 workers with severe learning difficulties used as slaves in illegal brick factories, in the nation’s latest case of labour abuse.

A Chinese farmer has been sentenced to life in prison for avoiding motorway tolls adding up to more than 3.5 million yuan (€400,000).

RESCUERS said yesterday there is little hope of finding alive 11 miners trapped underground after a gas explosion in a central Chinese coal mine that killed 26 of their comrades.

A dawn explosion in a Chinese coal mine killed 20 and trapped 17 workers underground today in the country’s central region, a national work safety official said.

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 rains in southern China left 21 people missing today, adding to a growing death toll from China’s worst flood season in a decade, which is expected to worsen with heavy rains forecast across the country.

State media said at least 46 miners were killed after an explosion ripped through a mine in the central Chinese province of Henan.

US PRESIDENT Barack Obama said yesterday that he met briefly with a half brother who lives in China and who recently wrote a semi-autobiographical novel about the abusive Kenyan father they share.

Unusually early snow storms in north-central China have claimed 40 lives, caused thousands of buildings to collapse and destroyed almost 500,000 acres of winter crops, the Civil Affairs Ministry said.

Chinese families whose children fell ill from poisoned milk have been pressured to drop compensation cases, victims’ advocates say.

China declared an official emergency today in eight provinces hit by a drought that has left nearly four million people without drinking water.

Fifteen people have died after a bus plunged into a ravine in central China, it was reported today.

Snow and ice has caused chaos in China, disrupting the nation's busiest holiday travel season.

BLIZZARDS stranded more than half a million train passengers in a Chinese town yesterday.

Blizzards stranded more than half a million train passengers in a Chinese town today.

A CHINESE woman who killed her lover with a rat poison-laced kiss when she suspected him of being unfaithful has been sentenced to death.

Heavy rain lashing parts of China is hampering efforts to rescue 69 miners trapped in a flooded colliery, state media reported today.

MORE than 100 people have died in floods and landslides in China, and tens of thousands have fled their homes in the east where dykes are in danger of being breached by a swollen river.

Nearly half a million people have been evacuated from a potentially deadly flood zone surrounding central China’s swollen Huai River, state media reported today.

Floods and landslides triggered by heavy rains have killed at least 94 people and left 25 others missing in seven Chinese provinces, state media reported today.

POLICE have detained 168 people linked to a human-trafficking network supplying slave labour to mines and brick works in north and central China, according to the state news agency, Xinhua.

ABOUT 400 Chinese men whose children were sold to work as slaves at brickworks were seeking help online after risking their lives and spending all their savings in a mostly futile search, media reported yesterday.

Rescuers were today struggling to reach 45 miners trapped in two mines in the latest accidents to hit the industry in China, state media said

A man in western China today attacked a group of students standing outside their middle school with a knife or similar object, killing two and injuring three others and a teacher, state media said.

A drunken Chinese migrant worker jumped into a panda enclosure at the Beijing Zoo, was bitten by the bear and retaliated by chomping down on the animal's back, state media said today.

A man in central China hacked a neighbour to death then took 19 primary school students hostage, killing one, before police subdued him.