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

A TODDLER who fell 10 storeys and survived after being caught by a passer-by has woken from a 10-day coma, Chinese state media has reported.

MORE than two million people have been displaced or otherwise affected by flooding in eastern China’s Zhejiang province that is also pushing up food prices, state media reported yesterday.

Chinese state media are today reporting that more than 120,000 people have fled their homes in eastern China as more rains cause landslides and flooding.

MORE than 600 people, including 103 children, have been made ill in China’s latest case of mass lead poisoning.

A TYPHOON-spawned mudslide engulfed a mountain village in southern Taiwan, burying up to 600 people, a police official and a rescued villager said.

Typhoon Wipha slammed into the Chinese coast this morning as authorities evacuated two million people following forecasts it would be the most powerful storm to hit the area in a decade.

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.

TYPHOON Saomai, the most powerful storm to hit China in five decades, raged ashore yesterday and churned across the crowded south-east, killing at least two people, wrecking houses and capsizing ships after 1.5 million residents were evacuated.

A doctor from eastern China donated his bone marrow today in the hope of helping an eight-year-old American girl with a potentially deadly blood disease.

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

IRISH firms have signed contracts worth €125.8 million during the Government-led trade mission to China last week, Enterprise Ireland has said.

A swollen creek swept a villager away as Typhoon Aere crashed into mainland China, unleashing torrential rains and prompting the evacuation of a half-million people.

Typhoon Aere whipped northern Taiwan with gusty winds and heavy rain today, while China began evacuating 249,000 people from coastal areas as it braced for the storm that has killed at least seven people.

AT least 25 people were killed and 22 others were missing after a landslide destroyed 52 homes in eastern China following Typhoon Rananim, state media reported yesterday.

The most powerful typhoon to hit China in seven years killed at least 63 people in the country’s southeast, injured more than 1,800 and knocked down thousands of homes.

SMOULDERING incense left inside a bamboo temple as offerings to the gods was probably responsible for one of two deadly fires that killed at least 93 people in China over the weekend, authorities said yesterday.