Rescuers have found scores of survivors as they dug through homes shattered by an earthquake in southern China that killed at least 398 people and injured more than 1,800.

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A strong earthquake in south western China has killed at least 26 people and injured 79.

Rescuers in southern China are struggling to pump water from a coal mine where 22 miners have been trapped for more than a day.

The death toll from a horrific rampage by a knife-wielding mob at a railway station has risen to 33 as China blamed ethnic separatists for the “terrorist attack”.

At least 27 people have been killed and 109 injured after a group of knife-wielding men attacked a train station in south-western China, according to the country’s official news agency.

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Floodwaters surging through Himalayan foothills in western China have swept bridges, houses and hillsides into surging brown rivers, leaving at least 19 people dead and dozens missing as heavy rains buffet many parts of the country.

A national operation in China has busted nine child abduction gangs, arresting 355 suspects and rescuing 89 children.

Rescuers are searching for 28 miners trapped for more than a day in a coal mine after an explosion killed at least 19 people in China’s deadliest mining accident in nearly a year.

Rescue workers were searching yesterday for more than 100 people trapped by a mudslide in south-west China.

SURGEONS in southern China successfully removed a rusty, 4-inch (10-centimeter) knife from the skull of a man who said it had been stuck in there for four years, the hospital said yesterday.

Chinese surgeons have removed a rusty, four-inch knife from the skull of a man who claimed it had been stuck in there for four years.

The Yalu River that marks China’s border with North Korea breached a dyke today after torrential rain, inundating parts of the Chinese city of Dandong and forcing the evacuation of more than 50,000 people.

Work crews raced to drain fast-rising reservoirs on opposite sides of China today, following torrential rains that triggered deadly landslides in several mountain hamlets.

Landslides slammed into three mountain hamlets in western China early today, killing 17 people and leaving 44 missing, while crews drained an engorged reservoir in another part of the country following heavy rains.

Police in Shanghai said today they had cracked a major child trafficking ring following the arrest of 47 suspects and rescue of 21 babies following a months'-long crackdown.

An official newspaper said 200 children have been sickened with lead poisoning in southwest China, the third report of such cases in the country this month.

MORE than 400,000 people have left their homes after an earthquake rocked south-western China, killing one person and destroying thousands of houses.

An earthquake rocked south-west China, killing one person, injuring at least 324 others and collapsing 18,000 homes.

Chinese state media said a moderate earthquake rocked south-west China today, injuring at least 336 people and collapsing 10,000 homes.

FLOOD water from southern China pushed up river levels in northern Vietnam yesterday, worsening inundations across a wide region that have killed at least 120 people on both sides of the border.

An earthquake struck China’s south-western Sichuan province today, killing three people, according to reports.

The search for survivors in the rubble of China's powerful earthquake grew bleak today, with rescuers in some areas no longer listening for trapped victims.

China today issued a “most wanted” list of 21 rioters pictured in Lhasa last week. Meanwhile thousands of troops continued to push into Tibetan areas of western China to contain unrest.

A CHINESE woman who killed her lover with a rat poison-laced kiss when she suspected him of being unfaithful has been sentenced to death.

Police in eastern China have broken up a baby trafficking ring, arresting 47 people and rescuing 40 infants, state media said today.

A SIX-YEAR-OLD girl was bitten to death by a tiger at a south China zoo after posing for a picture with the animal, state media said yesterday.

A six-year-old girl was bitten to death by a tiger at a south China zoo while posing for a picture with the animal, state media said today.

Villagers in southwestern China are scratching their heads over the county government’s decision to paint an entire barren mountainside green.

A county in southwestern China has killed as many as 50,000 dogs in a government-ordered campaign following the deaths of three local people from rabies, official media reported today.

China’s death toll from tropical storm Bilis more than doubled to 482 today after a hard-hit province reported a sharp rise in fatalities, the official Xinhua News Agency said.

A brick wall collapsed at a festival in southern China, killing seven people and injuring 22, the official Xinhua News Agency reported today.

A dam on a rain-swollen reservoir collapsed in China’s south-west, inundating dozens of houses and killing 16 villagers.

A dam on a rain-swollen reservoir collapsed in China’s southwest, inundating dozens of houses and killing at least 15 villagers, state media reported today.

Two men and a woman were executed today in south-western China for abducting and selling 11 boys aged two and three.

Relief workers were rushing tents and other supplies to more than 126,000 people left homeless by an earthquake in China’s southwest that killed at least four people.

Torrential summer rain has killed 381 people in central China and the nation’s south, while more than 100,000 have fled their homes to avoid rising rivers.

A moderate earthquake hit a sparsely populated area of south-western China’s interior early today, killing at least five people and injuring 29 as residents of rickety houses spilled into the streets, authorities and witnesses said.

A strong earthquake killed at least three people in a remote area of China’s mountainous southwest and collapsed at least 50 houses.

A strong earthquake hit south-western China, killing at least nine people and causing hundreds of buildings to collapse, official media reported today.

Chinese archaeologists have found almost 100 tombs from between the 14th and 17th centuries.