A Chinese man who sexually assaulted a woman and mugged and beat a young girl is “no longer welcome in this country” according to Judge Patrick McCartan.

China’s death toll from Typhoon Saomai rose to 114 today as authorities said some victims were evacuees who died when buildings used as shelters collapsed in the strongest storm to hit China in more than five decades.

An explosion at a coal mine in north China on Wednesday killed at least 21 workers and injured 36, the government said, in the latest incident to hit the country’s disaster-plagued mining industry.

The death toll from a massive methane gas explosion at a north China coal mine today rose to 87 with 21 workers still missing, the government said.

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.

Fourteen imprisoned followers of the banned Falun Gong sect have committed suicide in a north China labour camp.

Chinese police have arrested a man accused of supplying the explosives used in bombings in north China that killed 108 people.