After an hour-long ordeal, emergency workers in Wuyuan, China have saved a boy whose foot was trapped between the rails of a river bridge. more ›

Via NoCommentTV: "A group of stranded Chinese people had to be rescued from a bridge after part of it collapsed due to heavy flooding in Sichuan Province, SW China. Fire-fighters set up a zip-line to ferry people across the void as the waters raged below them." more ›

A very, very lucky elderly man in Beijing was involved in a dramatic rescue yesterday after he was found dangling from his highrise apartment building. The man slipped while cleaning the windows of his 10th floor apartment and was only saved from plummeting down to the ground because his leg got caught onto the 8th floor window grill. His neighbors quickly called rescuers to the scene and the man was pulled to safety with only a few scrapes. more ›

The mother from the Pudong Airport stabbing says she is currently trying to find the foreigner who stopped to help her after her son, whom she claims suffers from mental problems, stabbed her several times. A video taken from scene is now circulating widely on the Chinese internet, showing what appears to be a youngish, dark haired Caucasian man wearing an orange long-sleeved shirt and brown or grey pants. more ›

As the search continues for missing people, more and more tales of survival are making their way to the surface. There was at least one happy ending yesterday reported by Xinmin which tells of the amazing rescue of an extremely elderly couple. more ›

Perhaps Spring fever's hit Shanghai. If you thought that shooting story was crazy, listen to this: Yesterday morning at 8am, a 20-year-old man was found hanging on a wire between the second and third floors of a building in Xuhui district - completely naked. We promise we aren't stringing you along. more ›

Rescuers have managed to recover the wreckage of a helicopter that crashed in the East China Sea off Shanghai. The copter had served China's Antarctic exploration ship, Xuelong (雪龙）, and was carrying four men when it crashed near the Yangtze River on Sunday mid-morning. Three men were rescued and rushed to the hospital. One of the men is in serious condition, but the other two are stable. The search for the fourth man - a mechanic - is still ongoing. While the exact cause of the crash has yet to be determined, authorities say thick fog was probably the culprit. Source: Xinhua more ›

36 coal miners are still trapped after a mine flooded at about 3.30pm yesterday at the Nadu Mine in the Guangxi region. Rescuers have since saved 13 people after 10 hours and 12 of the 36 still trapped are in contact with rescuers and are in safe places within the mine. These miners are reported to be about 2km from the mouth of the mine and rescuers are struggling to get water and food to them as they continue rescue efforts. more ›