Blind activist Chen Guangcheng said today the Chinese government has promised him it will investigate abuses he and his family suffered at the hands of local authorities.

A blind legal activist who fled house arrest in rural China is under the protection of American officials and top-level talks are taking place between the countries about his fate, a human rights group said today.

Police in eastern China have broken up a human trafficking ring involving poor migrant couples who were selling their babies, a state-run newspaper reported.

Two rare cubs born to a male lion and a female tiger are being nursed by a dog after they were abandoned by their mother.

A KNIFE-WIELDING man went on a slashing rampage in a kindergarten in eastern China, leaving three children and one teacher dead in the country’s latest school attack, area residents said.

A knife-wielding man went on a murderous rampage in a kindergarten in eastern China, leaving three children and one teacher dead, it was reported today.

A farmer attacked and injured five primary school children with a hammer in eastern China today before burning himself to death in the latest in a string of horrific assaults on young students, state media reported.

A RURAL tradition of abandoning dead children may have played a part in the case of the 21 babies’ bodies found in a Chinese river.

A rural tradition of abandoning dead children may have played a part in the case of the 21 babies' bodies found in a Chinese river.

The bodies of 21 babies have been found dumped in a Chinese river, apparently thrown there by local hospitals.

Rescuers were scrambling today to save 153 workers trapped after a flood swept through a coal mine in northern China, the country’s work safety agency said.

A 16-YEAR-OLD boy has been infected with the H5N1 virus, the Chinese health ministry said yesterday — the fourth reported bird flu case this month.

Six Chinese suspects went on trial today accused of making and selling the industrial chemical at the centre of a tainted milk scandal blamed for killing six children and making nearly 300,000 others sick.

A high-speed passenger train slammed into another train in eastern China today, killing at least 70 people and injuring more than 400 in China’s worst train accident in a decade.

A high-speed passenger train came off the tracks and crashed into another train in eastern China today, killing at least 66 people and injuring more than 400, a state news agency reported.

Eighteen railway workers were killed and another nine injured when a high-speed train ran into them, China’s work safety watchdog said today.

Officials have abandoned efforts to retrieve the bodies of 172 coal miners from a flooded mine in eastern China, family members said today, deepening their anger at what they see as callous treatment by the government and mining company.

Typhoon Wipha, which fizzled into a tropical storm while sweeping across eastern China, killed nine people and left three missing when it lashed the region with winds, torrential rains and landslides, reports said today.

Police in eastern China have broken up a baby trafficking ring, arresting 47 people and rescuing 40 infants, state media said today.

Rescue workers are still searching for 181 Chinese miners trapped underground for more than two weeks, although a state media report today did not say whether there were any chances of survival after such a long period.

TWO Chinese brothers clawed their way out of a collapsed coal mine after surviving underground for nearly six days, shocking grieving relatives, state media said yesterday.

ANGRY relatives demanded answers yesterday as hopes dwindled for 181 miners trapped underground more than 48 hours after a collapsed dike in eastern China flooded two coal mines.

Floodwaters caused by heavy rains poured into two coal mines in a town in eastern China, leaving 181 miners trapped and feared dead, government officials said today.

Record-breaking rainstorms in China left 22 people dead, 142 injured and six missing, state media reported today, in the latest weather disaster to hit the country.

A father slashed 25 children with a kitchen knife at a school in eastern China and held a nine-year-old girl hostage for an hour before police captured him.