An explosion at a chemical plant in eastern China has killed one person and injured nine others, a state news agency reported.

A hospital in eastern China is offering fathers-to-be a chance to experience the pain of childbirth after several new moms complained they got little sympathy from their partners.

Global retail giant Wal-Mart Stores has recalled a donkey meat product from some Chinese stores after tests found traces of other animals’ DNA, the company has confirmed. Authorities said it contained fox meat.

A Chinese court sentenced ousted senior politician Bo Xilai to life in jail yesterday after finding him guilty of corruption and abuse of power, a term that gives him little chance of staging a political comeback.

Between 1958 and 1961, some 36 million Chinese people starved to death because of Mao’s obsessive and dishonest Great Leap Forward, finds Neil Robinson

A blind Chinese legal activist who was suddenly allowed to leave the country arrived in the US, ending a nearly month-long diplomatic tussle that had tested US-China relations.

Chinese police rescued more than 24,000 abducted children and women last year, some of whom had been sold for adoption or forced into prostitution as far away as Angola.

Oscar winner Christian Bale has clashed with guards in China while trying to visit a blind activist living under house arrest.

EIGHT children were hurt when a female staff member at a daycare centre for the children of migrant workers in China’s eastern city of Shanghai went on a stabbing spree.

TYPHOON Muifa pounded China’s commercial capital of Shanghai with high winds and heavy rain while more than 400,000 residents along the country’s east coast were moved to shelter and tens of thousands of fishing boats were recalled to port.

More than 200,000 coastal residents in eastern China have been evacuated and thousands of ships called back to shore today as Typhoon Muifa bears down on the country after battering the Philippines, Taiwan and Japan.

A coal mine fire has trapped 28 workers underground in eastern China as rescuers elsewhere tried to reach 42 miners not seen since heavy rains flooded two other mines over the weekend.

SCIENTISTS have identified a new dinosaur from fossils dug up in China and nicknamed it T-rex’s cousin.

Chinese officials are preparing for “a severe, long-lasting drought” in the worst-hit eastern province of Shandong, with the national weather bureau forecasting little if any rain for the region until February 17.

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

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.

Armed police will patrol schools in China’s capital after a farmer attacked schoolchildren with a hammer, then burned himself to death in the third classroom assault in as many days.

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

China declared a new food safety campaign today after contaminated milk products from an earlier scandal turned up repackaged in several places around the country, exposing weaknesses in the country’s promise to stop such problems from happening again.

Three dairy plant managers and one milk powder dealer in central China were arrested today for allegedly selling milk products tainted with the industrial chemical melamine, shortly after the government launched a 10-day crackdown.

CHINA launched an emergency crackdown on contaminated milk products yesterday after they were found on sale again despite a massive scandal that poisoned hundreds of thousands of children in 2008.

China launched an emergency crackdown on contaminated milk products today after they were found on sale again despite a massive scandal that poisoned hundreds of thousands of children in 2008.

A 14-MONTH-OLD boy in China is recovering after doctors removed a chopstick from his brain that accidentally poked up through his nose, a spokesman for the local hospital said yesterday.

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.

A state news agency today said a chemical explosion in eastern China killed 18 people and injured 10 others.

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

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.

Stung by criticism of their pollution-ridden atmosphere, Beijing’s Olympic officials today promised the air would be clean in time for this summer’s games.

China put nearly half a million soldiers to work clearing roads today as the country struggled to cope with winter storms that have brought it to a virtual standstill.

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

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

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.

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.

China’s ruling Communist Party, reeling from a corruption epidemic that has seen senior party chiefs jailed around the country, warned today that the fight against graft was a long way from being solved.

All 34 miners trapped when a fire broke out in a northern Chinese coal mine were confirmed dead after rescuers found the remaining eight bodies today, state media reported.

A blast at an explosives plant in eastern China killed at least 20 workers and injured two, the government said today.

Premier Wen Jiabao opened the annual session of China’s figurehead parliament today with promises of massive new social spending to placate the poor, restive countryside and said the sizzling economy will slow this year but should still grow by 8%.

RUSSIA and China began unprecedented joint military exercises involving air, sea and land forces yesterday, as commanders from both nations insisted the war games weren’t meant to intimidate other countries.

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.

Spar International today announced it has signed a licence agreement with local Shandong retailer Jia Jia Yue Supermarket Co Ltd to introduce the Spar brand to the Chinese retail market.