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Shanghai eases its COVID-19-related restrictions for some 4.8 million residents amid concerns that lockdown restrictions would harm the economy.
2022-04-12

It is announced that Shanghai will not impose a full-scale lockdown despite an increase in COVID-19 cases.
2022-03-26

British retailer Tesco suspends operations at a factory in China after the "Sunday Times" newspaper reports that a six-year-old in London found a message from Shanghai prisoners calling for help and urging whoever finds the message to alert a human rights organisation, with a link to the author of the story, hidden inside a pack of charity Christmas cards. Tesco says that it has a policy against using prison labour.
2019-12-22

A New Year's Eve celebration stampede in Shanghai kills at least 36 people and injures 49 others.
2014-12-31

Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard, on a trip to Shanghai, China, announces that the Australian dollar is set to trade directly with the Chinese yuan, becoming the third currency to do so.
2013-04-8

The American destroyer USS "McCampbell" is reported to have asked to board a North Korean cargo vessel south of Shanghai; the vessel's crew refused and later returned home after what "The New York Times" described as "several days of pressure" from the U.S. warship.
2011-06-13

Typhoon Fanapi (Inday) hits Taiwan with at least three people killed and dozens of people injured. The Peoples Republic of China steps up its emergency response in preparation for an impact on Monday.
2010-09-19

Severe Tropical Storm Lionrock lands in China's Fujian province with warnings of strong winds and torrential rains.
2010-09-2

Google claims that its Chinese Internet search and mobile search is blocked.
2010-07-29

A Taipei-Shanghai flight makes an emergency landing in Hangzhou after an American passenger makes an inappropriate reference to a bomb.
2010-05-1