As China’s flood-ravaged capital today dealt with the aftermath of the heaviest rain in six decades, including the deaths of 37 people, questions were being asked about whether the city’s push for modernisation came at the expense of basic infrastructure such as drainage networks.

A Chinese luxury cruise liner accidentally crashed into a bridge.

Premier Wen Jiabao, China’s top economic official, said its state-owned banks are monopolies that must be broken up, acknowledging mounting economic and political pressure to reform an industry whose vast profits are fuelling public anger.

A LONG-AWAITED government report said design flaws and sloppy management caused a bullet train crash in July that killed 40 people and triggered a public outcry over the dangers of China’s showcase transportation system.

China’s lenders have risks under control, despite concerns that massive local debts and ripple effects from failed informal lending schemes threaten the country’s financial stability, the country’s top banking regulator said.

CHINESE authorities came under fire yesterday after the worst subway accident in 42 years raised fresh fears that the world’s second biggest economy was sacrificing safety in the rush to develop.

More than 200,000 coastal residents in eastern China have been evacuated and thousands of ships called back to shore today as Typhoon Muifa bears down on the country after battering the Philippines, Taiwan and Japan.

A Chinese report said design flaws in signal equipment caused last weekend’s high-speed train crash that killed at least 39 people.

THE Chinese government has ordered a two-month, nationwide safety campaign on its railway system after a collision between two bullet trains killed at least 39 people.

The Chinese government has ordered a two-month, nationwide safety campaign on its railway system after a collision between two bullet trains killed at least 39 people.

A toddler has been rescued 21 hours after a crash involving two high-speed trains killed at least 35 people in China.

A bullet train crashed into another high-speed train in eastern China, killing at least 35 people, injuring 191 others and once again raising safety concerns about the country’s fast-expanding rail network.

China's state media has reported that the death toll from today's train crash has risen to at least 32.

Eleven people were killed and 89 others injured when a bullet train lost power and was hit by another train today, China’s state media reported.

Two carriages of a high-speed train derailed and plunged off a bridge in China today, a news report said.

RESCUERS in Taiwan have found nearly 1,000 people alive in the area around three remote villages devastated by Typhoon Morakot, which pummelled the island over the weekend, the country’s military said.

A typhoon slammed into China’s eastern coast today, forcing the evacuation of nearly a million people.

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.

Typhoon Krosa roared ashore today on China’s south-east coast after more than one million people were evacuated, the government announced.

THE death toll from Typhoon Saomai — the strongest storm to hit China in 50 years — rose to 114 yesterday as more evacuees died when buildings used as shelters collapsed, authorities said.

China’s death toll from Typhoon Saomai rose to 114 today as authorities said some victims were evacuees who died when buildings used as shelters collapsed in the strongest storm to hit China in more than five decades.

South-east China braced for more torrential rain today after Typhoon Saomai slammed into the region, killing 105 people and leaving another 190 missing.

China’s death toll from Typhoon Saomai rose to at least 104 today, with another 190 missing, as the most powerful storm to strike the country in five decades weakened into a tropical depression.

Authorities evacuated 1.3 million people from areas along China’s south-eastern coast today ahead of the arrival of Typhoon Saomai.

Flooding and landslides triggered by Typhoon Talim killed at least 45 people on China’s mainland and left 21 missing, the government said in Beijing today.

Torrential rains and flooding from Typhoon Talim killed at least 10 people and left 15 missing in eastern China, the government said today.

people convicted of drug trafficking in China were executed and six others were sentenced to death ahead of International Anti-Drugs Day.

Seven people convicted of drug trafficking in China were executed and six others were sentenced to death ahead of International Anti-Drugs Day, state media reported.

China’s Ho-Pin Tung made history today when he became the first driver from his country to test a Formula One car.