Nearly one million people have been evacuated as Typhoon Chan-hom hit the Chinese coast south of Shanghai with winds of up to 100mph.

USA: A woman has spent a night in jail — because she did not mow her lawn.

A man in China's Zhejiang province checked into hospital after experiencing stomach aches and blood in his urine.

Yellowbird’s legacy is a bright ray of light in the bleak Chinese political landscape, writes Melinda Liu.

A young Irishman has died in the Chinese city of Shanghai.

A Tibetan mastiff puppy has been sold in China for almost €1.4m, a report said, in what could be the most expensive dog sale ever.

’All fours’ runner sets 100m record

Shanghai city officials have closed more than 60 parks and the city zoo as residents wade through flood waters after heavy rains hit the financial hub in the aftermath of Typhoon Fitow.

A typhoon has slammed into south-eastern China with powerful winds and heavy rains that cut power, cancelled flights and suspended train services.

There is a warning a super typhoon, moving towards Hong Kong and China, could cause serious damage.

It’s been so hot in China that people are grilling bacon and eggs in frying pans on manhole covers, or even directly on pavements sometimes heated up to 60C.

A teenage victim of the Asiana Airlines crash in San Francisco was killed when she was struck by a vehicle at the scene, a coroner said today.

Archaeologists say they have discovered some of the world’s oldest known primitive writing, dating back 5,000 years, in eastern China.

Air crash investigators have determined Asiana Airlines Flight 214 was travelling “significantly below” the target speed during its approach and that the crew tried to abort the landing just before it smashed onto the runway.

A Chinese city plans to fine mothers who have a child out of wedlock, sparking criticism that the policy is discriminatory and could lead to an increase in abandoned babies.

The mother of the Chinese baby trapped in a sewer pipe in an ordeal caught on video raised the initial alarm and was present for the entire two-hour rescue but did not admit giving birth until confronted by police.

A newborn boy is recovering in hospital after being dumped in a sewer pipe below a Chinese public toilet.

Police have said that they have found the mother of the new-born baby boy who was dumped in a sewer pipe below a Chinese public toilet.

The number of dead pigs found in a Shanghai river that provides drinking water to the Chinese financial hub has risen to 7,545, after local authorities retrieved 944 more pigs yesterday.

Hundreds more dead pigs have been pulled from the river that provides drinking water to Shanghai, China’s financial hub, bringing the total to more than 6,600 since last Friday.

A five-storey home that stood in the middle of a new main road in China has been demolished by authorities.

A Chinese couple who refused to move out of their home to make way for a main road now find they are living in the middle of a roundabout.

Authorities in east China said yesterday that work on a chemical plant would be halted after thousands of locals clashed with police during a protest over fears the factory would pollute the region.

The visit to Ireland of China’s pro-business vice-president Xi Jinping could mark the start of a significant increase in trade between the countries, but we must be ready to grab this golden opportunity with two hands, writes Dan Buckley

TYPHOON Muifa pounded China’s commercial capital of Shanghai with high winds and heavy rain while more than 400,000 residents along the country’s east coast were moved to shelter and tens of thousands of fishing boats were recalled to port.

More than 200,000 coastal residents in eastern China have been evacuated and thousands of ships called back to shore today as Typhoon Muifa bears down on the country after battering the Philippines, Taiwan and Japan.

A toddler has been rescued 21 hours after a crash involving two high-speed trains killed at least 35 people in China.

A bullet train crashed into another high-speed train in eastern China, killing at least 35 people, injuring 191 others and once again raising safety concerns about the country’s fast-expanding rail network.

China's state media has reported that the death toll from today's train crash has risen to at least 32.

Eleven people were killed and 89 others injured when a bullet train lost power and was hit by another train today, China’s state media reported.

Two carriages of a high-speed train derailed and plunged off a bridge in China today, a news report said.

More than 600 people, including 103 children, have been made ill in China’s latest case of mass lead poisoning, state media reported today.

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.

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

A TYPHOON pummelled China’s eastern coast yesterday, toppling houses, flooding villages and forcing nearly a million people to flee to safety.

A typhoon slammed into China’s eastern coast today, forcing the evacuation of nearly a million people.

Queen’s University in Belfast established a series of formal link-ups with Chinese universities today as part of a £2.3m (€2.6m) research programme.

A giant lake in China supplying water to 30 million people has become undrinkable through pollution.

Snow and ice has caused chaos in China, disrupting the nation's busiest holiday travel season.

BLIZZARDS stranded more than half a million train passengers in a Chinese town yesterday.

Blizzards stranded more than half a million train passengers in a Chinese town today.

Typhoon Krosa roared ashore today on China’s south-east coast after more than one million people were evacuated, the government announced.

Typhoon Wipha, which fizzled into a tropical storm while sweeping across eastern China, killed nine people and left three missing when it lashed the region with winds, torrential rains and landslides, reports said today.

Typhoon Wipha slammed into the Chinese coast today, flooding streets and fields and causing massive transport disruptions.