Eurozone government bond yields stabilised as investors welcomed signs that the spread of the coronavirus in China was slowing and that more economic stimulus to offset the fallout could be on its way.

It is because the coronavirus alert in China has cut production of iPhones.

Global stock and oil markets are expected to trade nervously this week even as investors hope for signs for the containment of the deadly coronavirus.

That composure will be challenged too by the news that the number of cases worldwide has already surpassed the Sars epidemic peak.

Tánaiste Simon Coveney has confirmed a number of Irish citizens have requested to leave Wuhan in China, where the deadly coronavirus is believed to have originated.

Universities are advising students to take a number of precautions to help limit the potential spread of the new strain of coronavirus until more is known about the infection.

A Chinese woman died after being trapped in a shopping mall escalator, but not before pushing her two-year-old son to safety.

An official who led China’s biggest petroleum company and was later assigned to oversee state-owned companies has admitted in court he was guilty of corruption and abuse of power.

A former mining tycoon who led a mafia-style crime gang that ran casinos and killed rivals has been executed along with four of the gang’s members, a court in central China said.

A young school child has been killed and two others were badly injured in a knife attack in south-eastern China.

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 convicted criminal who took 50 elementary school students and a teacher hostage has been shot dead by Chinese police.

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

With fireworks, dancing and late-night revelry, millions around the world welcomed 2014.

Exploding fireworks sprayed from the sails of the Sydney Opera House and the Australian city’s harbour bridge at midnight as the world ushered in a new year.

’Seal punch’ zoo keeper suspended

A staged protest claiming that a street seller had been beaten to death in China went awry when the man supposedly dead under a white sheet was overcome by the region’s heat wave and sprang up to quaff a bottle of water

A Chinese city plans to fine mothers who have a child out of wedlock, sparking criticism that the policy is discriminatory and could lead to an increase in abandoned babies.

A fire at an internet cafe spread to a hotel on the upper floors of a building in central China, killing 13 people and injuring 50 others.

Eleven people have been killed and 50 others injured in a fire in central China that spread to a hotel.

The University of Ulster is to team up with a Chinese counterpart to promote the teaching of Mandarin in schools in the North, it has emerged.

China’s Red Cross made an urgent nationwide appeal for blood donors today after a sudden shortage halted some surgical operations.

China has launched its biggest relocation programme since the Three Gorges Dam, with 330,000 residents set to be moved to new homes to make way for a water project that will serve thirsty Beijing.

A COURT in China has given a 22-year-old man a suspended jail sentence for selling his toddler son on the internet for 18,000 yuan (€2,177).

A CHINESE farmer has declared war on property developers who want his land, building a cannon out of a wheelbarrow and pipes and firing rockets at would-be eviction teams.

A Chinese karaoke bar waitress who became a folk hero after fatally stabbing a Communist Party official who demanded sex was freed today, state media said.

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.

Lightning strikes and mud flows sparked by record-breaking torrential rains killed at least 15 people in western China, 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.

CHINESE investigators have concluded that an activist who said he was paralysed after assailants broke his neck inflicted the injury on himself, his son said yesterday.

China’s sales of military vehicles and weapons to Sudan, Nepal and Burma have aggravated conflicts and abetted violence and repressive rule in those countries, Amnesty International said in a report today.

Torrential rains in central and eastern China have killed 21 people and destroyed thousands of houses, the government said today.

China has temporarily closed a nature reserve that attracts scores of people each year hunting for evidence of the country’s version of an ape-like Bigfoot creature, a park official said today.

An earthquake measuring 5.7 on the Ritcher Scale has hit China, killing at least 11 people.

ROMANIA confirmed yesterday that dead hens discovered in a remote village had bird flu as Chinese officials warned that the threat to humans was growing as the winter flu months approached and ordered officials to stockpile emergency supplies.

China reported its 16th and 17th bird flu outbreaks in poultry in the north and a central province today, despite massive efforts to vaccinate billions of farm birds.

China reported its seventh and eighth bird ‘flu outbreaks in three weeks today, while Vietnam – which has suffered most of Asia’s human deaths from the virus – ordered police and the military to help fight the disease.

China has freed a man who spent 11 years in prison for murder following the reappearance of the wife he was accused of killing, it was reported in China today.

RESCUERS battled to reach thousands of people trapped by floods and mudslides in southwest China as the death toll from some of the worst storms in years rose to 107 with another 88 missing.

people convicted of drug trafficking in China were executed and six others were sentenced to death ahead of International Anti-Drugs Day.

THE SARS emergency has worsened in Taiwan, which had its biggest one-day jump in cases yesterday, while China threatened possible execution for people who cause death or injury by deliberately spreading the disease.

Two separate fireworks explosions have reportedly killed 20 people in China.