Jinghui Chen

Over 1,000 villagers in China’s Yunnan Province clashed with police, smashing more than 30 police vehicles in ongoing protests over land seizures by local authorities.

Heavy rains and hailstorms pounded the disaster-prone counties of Min and Zhang, in China’s northwest Gansu Province on Sept.16, leaving eight dead, 28 injured, and more than 48,000 people evacuated from their homes, according to the Gansu Daily newspaper.

A three-day stand-off between migrant workers and police in southern China’s Guangdong Province resulted in both sides taking “prisoners.”

An H1N1 bird flu outbreak in south China left one dead and many more hospitalized.

The suspicious death of a young Anhui woman in Beijing triggered a large demonstration, and a clamp down by local authorities.

Two children died in northern China after drinking yoghurt laced with rat poison by the owner of a rival kindergarten.

At least 21 people died during a showdown between Uyghur muslims and Chinese police in northwestern China’s Xinjiang Province.

A 2-month-old baby left unattended in the back seat of a car was later strangled by a thief who stole the car.

Villagers in southwestern China’s Yunnan Province are demanding that Chinese authorities re-investigate what triggered last Friday’s landslide that killed 46 people in a village, suggesting that a nearby coal mine explosion caused the disaster, rather than heavy rainfall.

A huge explosion rocked a chemical plant in Shandong recently, destroying houses and killing a number of people.