The mother of the Chinese newborn baby trapped in a pipe in a squat toilet was the person who raised the initial alarm and witnessed the two-hour resc(...)

Firefighters in eastern China have rescued an abandoned newborn baby boy lodged in a sewage pipe directly beneath a toilet commode, state television r(...)

a new strain of bird flu that has killed 22 people in China was “one of the most lethal” flu viruses it had encountered and was more eas(...)

Chinese health authorities are examining the possibility of human-to-human transmission within a family of a new strain of bird flu that has in(...)

Chinese authorities have slaughtered over 20,000 birds at a poultry market in Shanghai today as the death toll from a new strain of bird flu mo(...)

CLIFFORD COONAN Nearly two weeks after officials began pulling pig carcasses out of the Huangpu, t(...)

The sight of 7,500 dead pigs, and counting, floating on the Huangpu River near Shanghai has dominated the headlines in China around the annual (...)

In the months leading up to the National People’s Congress, which yesterday appointed Xi Jinping as president, the Xinhua n(...)

Hundreds more dead pigs have been pulled from the river that provides drinking water to Shanghai, China ’s financial hub, bringing the total to mor(...)