A handgun went off during a police safety talk at a kindergarten in the central Chinese city of Zhengzhou, injuring four adults and one child.

Multi-national company GlaxoSmithKline was today caught up in an investigation by Chinese authorities into alleged bribery of hospitals and doctors by employees of the pharmaceutical giant.

Extremely high pollution levels shrouded eastern China for the second time in two weeks today, forcing airlines in Beijing and elsewhere to cancel flights because of poor visibility and prompting government warnings for residents to stay indoors.

Rory McIlroy and Tiger Woods ended their ‘Duel at Jinsha Lake’ to the music of The Magnificent Seven but then Manic Monday may have been a better choice in Zhengzhou.

The company that makes Apple’s iPhones suspended production at a factory in China today after a brawl involving as many as 2,000 employees at a dormitory injured 40 people.

The Irish Dairy Board has launched Kerrygold UHT Milk in the Chinese market as part of a plan to extend the Kerrygold product range in the growing market.

More Chinese cities have seized iPads from retailers in a dispute between Apple and a local company over ownership of the tablet's name.

THE carnage in New York, Washington, London, Istanbul, Bali, Beslan, Buenos Aires, Jerba, Jakarta, Jerusalem, Madrid, Mombassa, Moscow, Mumbai, Yemen, Dafur, Nigeria, Kashmir, Zhengzhou, was not carried out by Israel.

A dawn explosion in a Chinese coal mine killed 20 and trapped 17 workers underground today in the country’s central region, a national work safety official said.

A STRONG delegation from Cork will take over the Ireland pavilionat the World Expo in China tomorrow to promote the city on the world stage.

POLICE have detained 168 people linked to a human-trafficking network supplying slave labour to mines and brick works in north and central China, according to the state news agency, Xinhua.

Police have broken up a baby-trafficking gang in central China, arrested 28 people and recovered 27 babies, some of them just 10 days old.

Power use in Beijing has hit a record high as millions of people in northern China turned up air conditioning amid a heatwave that is scorching the region with temperatures up to 42 degrees Celcius, news reports said today.

A man with a knife broke into a high school dormitory and killed eight students in the deadliest of a series of knife attacks at Chinese schools in recent months, the government said today.

Thousands of police patrolled a tense town today after street fights between members of the country's main ethnic group and a Muslim minority left seven people dead and 42 injured.

The death toll in a gas explosion in a Chinese coal mine rose to 64 today, and chances 84 missing miners might still be alive were “quite slim,” the government said.

A CHINESE jetliner bound from Beijing to southern China made an emergency landing yesterday after a passenger shouted that he wanted to hijack the flight to South Korea. But the unarmed man was detained and the plane took off again, state media and an airport spokeswoman said.

Shelves stacked high with garlic collapsed and killed 15 workers at a cold-storage warehouse in central China.

A snack-shop owner who confessed to killing dozens of people by poisoning food at a rival’s store in eastern China was executed today, the government said, in a quick announcement about a case it had been reluctant to publicise for weeks.

THE owner of a snack shop was yesterday sentenced to death after he confessed to killing 38 people

The owner of a snack shop has confessed to spreading rat poison over breakfast food from a rival shop that killed 38 people in the eastern Chinese city of Nanjing, according to state media.

At least 25 people have been killed and more than 200 injured by a freak storm that rained egg-sized hail down on central China.