Authorities in south-eastern China put 800,000 people in temporary shelters as Typhoon Haitang churned toward the coast today with fierce rains and high winds after hammering northern Taiwan and leaving three people dead.

How do you remove a stray cockroach jammed in the ear? It seems you get the creature drunk!

A tanker loaded with 62,000 gallons of diesel has sunk off southeastern China following a collision with another ship.

Seven people have been sentenced to death for tax fraud in the first verdicts of what could add up to China's biggest corruption case.

A Taiwanese boat has arrived in the Chinese port of Xiamen on the first legal and direct crossing from Taiwan in more than 50 years.