Liam Casey saw a potential gap in a rapidly developing market. Now the Cork-born entrepreneur employs 1,200 people across the globe, writes Kyran Fitzgerald

More than a million people have been forced from their homes by massive flooding across southern China.

Surging demand for fuel in China’s southern province of Guangdong, an export-oriented manufacturing centre, has led to severe shortages of petrol and diesel, prompting officials to impose rationing, news reports said today.

Hornby, the model railway and Scalextric slot car racing company, reported a 33% hike in interim pre-tax profit and predicted strong Christmas trading.

AT least 32 people were killed, five missing and 116 injured as Typhoon Dujuan slammed into southern China, leaving a trail of destruction in its wake.