Foreign journalists were barred from Beijing’s Tiananmen Square today as an internet clampdown expanded on the eve of the 20th anniversary of the violent crackdown on pro-democracy protests.

MANKIND’S closest relatives are teetering on the brink of their first extinctions in more than a century, hunted by humans for food and medicine and squeezed from forest homes, a report on endangered primates said yesterday.

An 106-year-old man and an 81-year-old woman were married in a city in south-eastern China, a state news agency said today.

Dozens of people were missing and at least one was dead after a packed bus slid off a ferry into a river in south-eastern China today, state media reported.

Communities in south-eastern China are straining to resettle more than 15 million people left homeless by four devastating typhoons in the past few months, the official Xinhua News Agency reported today.

Typhoon Longwang killed at least 50 people in China with dozens still missing today, including 59 members of a paramilitary police brigade swept away by raging floodwaters.

A Chinese court has ordered the death sentence for two men convicted of heading gangs that bought 82 children from their parents and sold them to families in Singapore, state media reports and an official said today.

Authorities in south-eastern China put 800,000 people in temporary shelters as Typhoon Haitang churned toward the coast today with fierce rains and high winds after hammering northern Taiwan and leaving three people dead.

The owner of a nursery school has been detained on suspicion that he added rat poison to lunches at a rival pre-school in south-eastern China, which put 70 young children and two teachers in hospital, police said today.

Seventy nursery school children and two teachers have been taken to hospital in south-eastern China after falling ill from a school lunch of corn porridge laced with rat poison, police said today.