At least seven people have been killed and another 31 were injured after an explosion at a restaurant in north-western China.

JOINING forces once again, South-west France holiday rental specialists The Gascony Secret and Simply Périgord offer a range of striking properties at prices for different pockets, the high range including historically important Chartreuse set in about 180 acres of land.

TIGERS mauled a man to death after he entered their enclosure with his son at a northern Chinese wildlife park.

Tigers mauled a man to death after he entered their enclosure with his son at a northern Chinese wildlife park, police and a park spokesman said today.

China urged its citizens to be “calm” and “rational” as nationalistic protests against French supermarket Carrefour spread today to more cities across the country.

The largest ever loan of artefacts from China’s famed terracotta army has started its journey to London today.

A piglet with two snouts and three eyes has been born at a farm in northern China’s Shaanxi province.

APPROVAL for the world’s first full face transplant in Britain has raised the difficult question — is the complicated procedure worth it?

A Chinese farmer who received a partial face transplant after he was badly disfigured in a bear attack has been discharged from hospital.

A Chinese man who received the world’s second-ever partial face transplant is healing well.

A Chinese man whose face was badly disfigured after an attack by a black bear received a partial face transplant today, in a cutting-edge medical procedure that a hospital statement described as a first for China.

China announced today it was giving a pair of giant pandas to the people of Taiwan, plus concessions on fruit imports and tourism, in a mix of symbolic and concrete gestures as the Taiwanese opposition leader capped a ground-breaking visit to the mainland.

Eleven people who tried to defraud Chinese lottery winners by having their tickets declared forgeries were today sentenced to prison terms of up to 19 years, news reports said, following a scandal in which one disappointed winner threatened suicide.

Russian President Vladimir Putin today began a three-day trip to China for talks expected to focus on the construction of an oil pipeline to help satisfy the energy needs of China’s surging economy.

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.

A fifth person has died from bird flu in Thailand, the health minister said in Bangkok today.

Asia’s human death toll from bird flu rose to 14 today after it was announced that a teenage girl had died from the disease in Vietnam.

Flooding and mudslides caused by torrential rains have killed at least 179 people in western China and wrecked bridges and power stations, officials said today.