CHINA EARTHQUAKE 
The water at Tangjiashan lake dropped by nearly eight metres in three hours. (Getty Images)
Town flooded as quake lake drains
Muddy water from a dangerously unstable "quake lake" rushed into the devastated Chinese town of Beichuan, covering about a third of the ruins, after soldiers used explosives to widen a sluice. read more...
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Quake parents protest schools construction
Chinese police have dragged away more than 100 parents while they were protesting the deaths of their children in poorly constructed schools that collapsed in last month's earthquake. read more...
New baby hope for quake mothers
Saturday, 7th June,2008China has sent medics to offer reverse sterilisation operations to women who lost children in last month's Sichuan earthquake but want to give birth again, state media reported. read more...
Journalists told to tone down school coverage
Wednesday, 4th June,2008Chinese news reporters have been told to tone down coverage of protests over shoddy school construction in areas devastated by last month's earthquake, two journalists told AFP. read more...
China orders 1.3 million to evacuate: Xinhua
Friday, 30th May,2008Authorities have ordered 1.3 million people near a "quake lake" in southwest China to evacuate amid fears it could burst and send massive torrents of water downstream, official media say. read more...
40 survivors rescued 16 days after China quake
Thursday, 29th May,2008Forty half-starved earthquake survivors have been rescued from a remote area in south western China a full 16 days after the disaster, state press reported. read more...
China evacuates thousands as 'quake lake' rises
Wednesday, 28th May,2008China has evacuated nearly 160,000 people as a huge earthquake-created lake keeps rising towards bursting levels, amid frantic efforts to ease the danger. read more...
Evacuations ordered as quake lake swells
Wednesday, 28th May,2008Chinese authorities have ordered mass evacuations as a dangerously swelling lake formed by this month's earthquake threatened to engulf thousands of homes, while further aftershocks rattled the region. read more...
China quake survivor freed after 11 days: report
Sunday, 25th May,2008An elderly man was freed unhurt from the collapsed remains of his home 11 days after the massive quake in southwestern China, state media reported on Sunday. read more...
Fears quake death toll may top 80,000
Saturday, 24th May,2008China said at least 60,000 people have been killed in its worst earthquake in a generation and that the death toll could climb past 80,000. read more...
UN offers support to quake hit China
Saturday, 24th May,2008UN chief Ban Ki-moon pledged support to China's earthquake survivors as he toured the devastated southwest region, state media says. read more...
UN confirms Ban Ki-moon's visit to China
Saturday, 24th May,2008The United Nations confirmed that its secretary general, Ban Ki-moon, would pay a visit to the earthquake-hit Chinese southwestern province of Sichuan. read more...
China quake zone 'faces grim health situation'
Friday, 23rd May,2008The health situation in areas affected by China's earthquake is "extremely grim" as the peak summer period for disease outbreaks begins, a top official from worst-hit Sichuan province said today. read more...
Woman found alive after 9 days
Thursday, 22nd May,2008A woman's emerged alive after being trapped for nine days in a tunnel following China's earthquake as the government ordered budget cuts to fund a multi-billion-dollar relief package. read more...
China scrambles to help five million displaced
Wednesday, 21st May,2008China scrambled to deliver tents and other essential materials to the five million people made homeless by last week's earthquake, as international aid began to flow in. read more...
Undaunted, China's athletes go for gold for quake victims
Wednesday, 21st May,2008The massive earthquake that caused untold suffering and triggered national mourning has failed to shake the iron resolve of China's athletes as they prepare for the Beijing Olympics. read more...
Missing panda found after quake
Wednesday, 21st May,2008A giant panda that went missing from a nature reserve after China's massive earthquake has returned safely, but two others remain unaccounted for. read more...