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At least two people are killed by flooding in Guangxi, China.
2022-06-18

Sixteen people are killed and 10 others injured by a gas explosion in Chongqing, China.
2022-01-7

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida says that the mass release of wastewater at the Fukushima nuclear plant cannot be delayed. The water, which has been inside the plant since the 2011 meltdown, is planned to be dumped into the Pacific Ocean over several decades despite strong opposition from local fishermen and the governments of China and South Korea.
2021-10-17

China's National People's Congress passes the "decision on improving the electoral system of Hong Kong", which will rewrite the election rules in Hong Kong to ensure a system of "patriots governing Hong Kong". This is seen by many Western countries as further eroding the freedoms of the Hong Kong people.
2021-03-11

Zimbabwe grants emergency use authorization for four COVID-19 vaccines, including China's CoronaVac and BBIBP-CorV, Russia's Sputnik V, and India's Covaxin.
2021-03-9

Prominent Chinese dissident and Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo dies.
2017-07-13

The United States agrees with Singapore on a first deployment of the U.S. P8 Poseidon surveillance aircraft in Singapore this month, in a fresh response to China over its pursuit of territorial claims in the South China Sea.
2015-12-8

The People's Republic of China will launch a cap and trade policy creating a carbon market in 2017.
2015-09-25

Chinese authorities name Huang Lixin as the Communist Party Secretary of Nanjing, following the investigation and dismissal of former party chief Yang Weize. Huang becomes the first woman in city history to take the top office. [http:--english.jschina.com.cn-TodayJiangsu-201501-t1978004.shtml (Jiangsu News)]date=August 2019
2015-01-26

The U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, Timothy Geithner, says at a meeting in Nanjing, China that the "most important problem" in the world's monetary system is that some countries refuse to allow the free flow of the value of their currency.
2011-03-31