Glanbia has unveiled trade deals that bring to 9,000 tonnes its annual dairy and nutritional ingredients business in China.

TOXIC bean sprouts, filthy cooking oil, drug-tainted pork: The relentless headlines in Chinese media have churned up queasy feelings for months about the dangers lurking in the nation’s dinner bowls.

Sixty-two workers were taken ill after a chemical leak at a pharmaceutical factory in eastern China.

THE Department of Agriculture has admitted there are still consignments of contaminated Irish pork in circulation around the globe which it has not yet traced.

Chinese quarantine authorities have seized more than 23 tonnes of frozen Irish pork that was found to be contaminated with dioxin, and have ordered that it be returned.

PENALTY shoot-out secures Irish soccer victory! No, it’s not an archive headline after Packie Bonner’s famous save against Romania in Genoa, but rather the story of an Irish team whose robots did the business to become the world’s best in China last week.

Food company Glanbia is to invest a total of €27.1m in its joint venture consumer foods business in Nigeria and in a new nutritionals facility near Shanghai in China.

A man with a knife broke into a high school dormitory and killed eight students in the deadliest of a series of knife attacks at Chinese schools in recent months, the government said today.

A father slashed 25 children with a kitchen knife at a school in eastern China and held a nine-year-old girl hostage for an hour before police captured him.

Koguryo – an ancient kingdom that straddled parts of Korea and northeastern China – has been included among nine new sites on UNESCO’s World Heritage List of natural and cultural wonders ranging from the Arctic Circle to tropical rainforests.