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.

Wildlife experts were worried today over the fate of a leading panda preserve close to the heart of the Chinese earthquake.

Chinese state media have reported that 10,000 people “remain buried” in Mianzhu near the epicentre of the earthquake that has already killed about 10,000.

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China is to donate two pandas to a Hong Kong zoo to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the former British colony’s handover to Chinese rule.

The birth of twin pandas at a research centre brought the number of the endangered species born in captivity this year in China to a record 25, a news report said today.

Twelve giant pandas belonging to China were born in captivity last year, a sign of progress in captive breeding of the highly endangered species, it was reported today.