China’s poisoned milk scandal has put huge numbers of children at risk of long-term health problems, a study revealed today.

Two men were executed today for their part in China’s poisoned milk powder scandal which killed at least six children and made more than 300,000 ill.

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 Chinese court condemned two men to death today and handed a life term to a former dairy boss in the first sentences for those involved in the country’s contaminated milk scandal.

Lawyers for more than 200 families who claim their children fell ill or died after drinking tainted infant formula said today that they were turning to China’s highest court to sue the dairy firms responsible in a bid to receive higher compensation and lifelong treatment.

THE chairwoman of a Chinese dairy company went on trial yesterday over a tainted milk scandal that has killed at least six children and made thousands ill.

A Chinese court declared bankrupt the company at the centre of a scandal over tainted milk that was blamed for killing six children and making nearly 300,000 more ill.

The head of China’s food safety watchdog resigned today over the contaminated baby formula scandal that has poisoned nearly 53,000 children.

Thousands of anxious Chinese parents queued at hospitals today for health checks on their babies as a spreading scandal involving contaminated milk powder claimed a fourth victim.

China's health minister said today tainted milk formula had killed three babies and made 6,200 ill in a spreading scandal that prompted three additional companies - including the country's biggest dairy - to recall products.

A Chinese milk company knew their product was contaminated with a dangerous chemical six weeks ago, but did nothing to remove it from shop shelves according to a major shareholder.

TAINTED milk formula has killed one baby and caused the development of kidney stones in dozens of others who may have drunk the same product, Chinese authorities said yesterday, in a grim reminder of a milk-powder scandal that killed 13 infants four years ago.

CHINESE doctors have separated four-month-old conjoined twin baby girls in an operation lasting nearly 12 hours, Xinhua news agency said yesterday.

Conjoined twins born with congenital heart disease will soon undergo separation surgery at a hospital in China.

Asian champion Sun Yingjie does not consider herself a likely candidate to win Sunday’s Flora London Marathon.

A blast at a storage site for explosives has killed 41 people and injured 89 in north west China.

Four men have gone on trial charged with a string of bombings that killed 108 people and could face a death sentence if convicted, a court official said today.

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

A Chinese man accused of causing explosions that killed 108 people has been captured after a weeklong nationwide manhunt.

At least 18 people have been killed by a series of explosions in northern China.