A Chinese grandmother died while shielding her 15-month-old granddaughter from being crushed by a landslide that toppled their house around them, reports say.

Forty miners have died in two separate coal mine explosions in south-western China, authorities said.

At least 16 students were killed and three other people were missing after a landslide hit a school in a mountainous area of south-western China today, a state news agency said.

An axeman has killed three children and injured 13 others at a daycare centre in south-western China.

A moderate earthquake has toppled houses in a mountainous part of south-western China, killing four people and injuring at least 100, state media said.

Seven people were killed and 30 others injured when a crowded tourist bus overturned on a mountainous road in south-western China, state media said today.

A flood in a coal mine in south-western China has trapped 28 workers, according to state media.

RESCUE crews yesterday continued to search for scores of people left missing and feared dead in south-western China after torrential rains triggered massive mudslides.

Rescue crews today continued to search for scores of people left missing and feared dead in south-western China after torrential rains triggered massive mudslides.

More than 30 pandas at a reserve in south-western China face an uncertain future after a chunk of their habitat was destroyed by last year’s powerful earthquake that killed nearly 70,000 people, a report out today said.

AT least 53 people are missing after a landslide hit a county in Sichuan province in China’s south-west.

At least 53 people are missing after a landslide hit a county in Sichuan province in China’s south-west, according to state media.

MORE than 400,000 people have left their homes after an earthquake rocked south-western China, killing one person and destroying thousands of houses.

Rescuers blasted through mud and debris today to try and reach 27 miners trapped after a massive landslide buried an iron ore plant and several homes in south-western China, leaving 26 people dead and dozens missing.

Sections of streets, schools and bridges destroyed during last year’s massive earthquake in south-western China will soon be open to tourists, state media said today.

A sex theme park that featured explicit exhibits of genitalia and sexual culture is being demolished before it even opened, a Chinese government spokesman said today.

A new species of bird found in a network of underground caves in China raised hopes the country could become a hotspot for other new discoveries, scientists said today.

FLOOD water from southern China pushed up river levels in northern Vietnam yesterday, worsening inundations across a wide region that have killed at least 120 people on both sides of the border.

A British landslide expert today urged China to immediately evacuate hundreds of thousands of people from the path of a giant dam he fears is ready to burst.

Three shoppers died and at least 31 others were injured in a stampede when the doors opened at the start of a sale at a Carrefour supermarket in south-western China today, state media reported.

China launched its first lunar probe today, the first step in an ambitious 10-year plan to send a rover to the moon and return it to earth.

A panda once mistakenly thought to be male has given birth to twins, it was reported today.

A bus plunged into ravine in south-western China today, killing 23 people, the official Xinhua News Agency said.

Workers protesting the sale of a factory in south-western China clashed for three days with baton-wielding police, a factory employee and a news website said today, underscoring the country’s growing social tensions.

A gas explosion at a road construction site in south-western China today killed 11 workers and left 20 missing, the government said.

Twenty-one miners have died in a coal mine explosion in south-western China, the government said today.

A bus fell off a bridge in south-western China’s Chongqing region early today, killing 27 people and seriously injuring four others, the government reported.

Two men and a woman were executed today in south-western China for abducting and selling 11 boys aged two and three.

A strong earthquake shook south-western China today, injuring five people and damaging about 20,000 homes.

As many as 68 people are feared dead after an overloaded ferry capsized and sank on the Jialing River in south-western China, it was revealed today.

Rain-soaked residents of south-western China began digging out today after floods and landslides that killed at least 161 people, while authorities warned of further rains over parts of the disaster area.

AMERICAN-BORN panda Hua Mei is pregnant, just months after settling into her new home in south-western China.

At least nine people were killed and 150,000 forced to flee their homes when leaking chlorine gas exploded at a chemical plant in south-western China, the government said today.

A moderate earthquake hit a sparsely populated area of south-western China’s interior early today, killing at least five people and injuring 29 as residents of rickety houses spilled into the streets, authorities and witnesses said.

A strong earthquake hit south-western China, killing at least nine people and causing hundreds of buildings to collapse, official media reported today.

Rescue workers searched today for 50 people missing after a rain-fed mudslide struck in south-western China, while floodwaters in the nation’s east were ebbing under sunny skies.

A landslide in south-western China buried 30 road workers, the official Xinhua News Agency reported today, but there was no immediate word on whether any died.

The death toll in a landslide that wrecked an apartment building in south-western China has risen to 62, the official Xinhua News Agency said today.

One person has died and at least 25 have been injured in a "moderately strong" earthquake in a remote area of south-western China’s Yunnan province.