This year is expected to be one of the hottest on record, with temperatures more than 1C above pre-industrial levels, the World Meteorological Organisation has said.

This year is expected to be one of the hottest on record, with temperatures more than 1C above pre-industrial levels, the World Meteorological Organisation has said.

Floods and landslides caused by a tropical depression have killed at least 43 people in Vietnam.

A second tropical storm has swept into southern China, lashing Hong Kong and Macau with heavy rain and strong wind as the region reels from the strongest typhoon in decades that left at least 22 dead.

At least 16 people have been killed in the most powerful typhoon to hit the southern Chinese region in more than half a century.

Cathay Pacific is being urged by analysts to widen its customer base in a bid to return to profitability. With the company expected to announce another loss this week, Cathay Pacific needs to shift strategy from being the region’s top airline for premium fliers and make a bigger effort to woo some of the millions of mainland leisure travellers who have enriched its state-owned rivals in China, analysts say.

A bus has overturned on a highway in the southern Chinese province of Guangdong, killing at least 19 people, according to state media.

A Chinese company that made shoes for Ivanka Trump has denied allegations of excessive overtime and low wages made by three activists who have been arrested or disappeared.

China has ordered the closure of live poultry markets in south-central regions after the deaths of at least 87 people in the worst outbreak of bird flu in years.

Good news for the sad and lonely polar bear trapped in a shopping centre in southern China.

At least six people were dead and eight others missing after Typhoon Nepartak battered China's coastal Fujian Province with heavy rain and strong winds that destroyed homes and triggered landslides.

Unusually cold weather in eastern Asia has been blamed for more than 60 deaths, disrupting transportation and bringing the first snow to a subtropical city in southern China in almost 50 years.

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Officials highlighted their handling of the search for 76 missing people at a collapsed mountain of construction waste as questions mounted yesterday about why leaders in southern China’s most prominent manufacturing city didn’t act months earlier to prevent the disaster.

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A snail has been discovered that is so tiny 10 of them could fit side-by-side in the eye of a needle.

HAINAN Island, which I visited a few years ago, is a crowded place, writes Richard Collins

Seven members of a family on a holiday outing in southern China drowned when a 17-year-old girl fell into a reservoir and several relatives jumped in after her trying to rescue her.

Chinese authorities have seized about 8,000 rolls of toilet paper printed with the image of Hong Kong’s pro-Beijing chief executive Leung Chun-ying, according to the territory’s Democratic Party.

The world’s only surviving giant panda triplets have finally been named following a worldwide competition: Mengmeng (Cute), Shuaishuai (Handsome), and Kuku (Cool).

Andy Murray triumphed in the Valencia Open final after a dramatic match which saw the Scot save five match points against Tommy Robredo.

A man has stabbed to death four children on their way to a primary school in southern China.

The race is on to see what will follow ROG, Bressie and Zedward as the name to be bestowed on the latest arrival at one of the country’s most popular tourist attractions.

A scary problem lurks beyond the frenzied efforts to keep people from spreading ebola: No one knows exactly where the virus comes from or how to stop it from seeding new outbreaks.

The death toll from a powerful earthquake that hit southern China four days ago has risen to 615, with 114 other people missing.

Rescuers have found scores of survivors as they dug through homes shattered by an earthquake in southern China that killed at least 398 people and injured more than 1,800.

A strong earthquake in southern China’s Yunnan province toppled thousands of homes yesterday, killing at least 367 people and injuring more than 1,800.

A typhoon has blasted through the northern Philippines, leaving at least 38 people dead and forcing more than half a million to flee its wind and rain.

A new species of dinosaur which belonged to the same family as Tyrannosaurus rex has been discovered.

Rescuers in southern China are struggling to pump water from a coal mine where 22 miners have been trapped for more than a day.

A fight between two food stall owners at a market in southern China left five people dead and a sixth fatally shot by police, authorities said.

The Philippines government has raised the official death toll from the typhoon disaster to 1,744 people, but the final number is expected to be much higher.

Rescuers are facing blocked roads and damaged airports as they struggle to deliver desperately needed aid to the typhoon-devastated Philippines.

Haiyan has made landfall in northern Vietnam as a tropical storm today, after leaving massive destruction in the Philippines.

A powerful typhoon that slammed into southern China with winds that blew cars off the road has caused more deaths, bringing the toll in Asia to at least 33.

A Chinese boy whose eyes were gouged out has received implants at a hospital in southern China owned by a Hong Kong doctor who offered the operation for free after learning about the brutal attack.

A six-year-old Chinese boy whose eyes were gouged out by an attacker is receiving implants at a hospital in southern China after a Hong Kong eye doctor volunteered his service.

At least two people were killed and 17 others, including 10 children, injured when a three-wheeled truck caught fire and exploded outside a school in southern China, state media reported.