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Eleven people are killed and three injured after a school's roof collapses in Qiqihar, Heilongjiang, China.
2023-07-23

Afghan Foreign Minister Mohammad Hanif Atmar says that China is working closely with the country to restore peace there. He also urges India to play a role in restoring peace in the country.
2021-03-23

Chinese officials report 15,152 new confirmed cases of the 2019-nCoV acute respiratory disease (COVID-19) and 254 new deaths in mainland China, the largest single day increase since the pandemic began. However, the number of confirmed cases now also includes the number of clinically diagnosed patients in Hubei province.
2020-02-13

Google announces that it will invest US$550 million in the Chinese e-commerce company JD.com.
2018-06-18

China says Chinese passengers flying from the Chinese cities of Nanchang, Kunming, and Chongqing, will be allowed to stop at Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport before flying to a third destination. Taiwan President Ma Ying-jeou applauded this step toward normalizing relations between the two states. Taiwan's opposition party expressed concern that Beijing is trying to interfere with the country's January 16, 2016, presidential and legislative elections.
2016-01-5

Australia's ABC News claims that the People's Republic of China hacked plans for the headquarters of the country's spy agency ASIO.
2013-05-28

Two people die in China from H7N9 avian influenza infection – a sub-type that had not previously been transmitted to humans.
2013-03-31

At least 26 people are killed on the G30 Expressway in Henan province, China, after a truck carrying fireworks explodes on an elevated highway, with an 80 m section of road being destroyed and part of it collapsing.
2013-02-1

Eighteen children and two adults die after an overloaded school bus collides with a coal truck in northwest China's Gansu province.
2011-11-16

Rescuers in China's Gansu province continue to search for 1,100 missing people in a recent landslide, as the death toll rises to 702.
2010-08-10