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A bus fire kills at least 35 people in China's Hunan Province.
2016-06-26

A rain-triggered landslide in southern China's Sichuan Province buries between 30-40 people.
2013-07-10

Floods and landslides caused by a week of heavy rain in the People's Republic of China have killed at least 57 people and made as many as a million people homeless.
2011-09-20

The Premier of China Wen Jiabao signals that the People's Republic of China will have trouble meeting its inflation target of 4 per cent in 2011.
2011-06-27

More than 20 quarry workers are buried by a landslide in Luojiang near the Chinese resort city of Guilin.
2011-05-9

The People's Republic of China begins its first census in ten years.
2010-11-1

China threatens Japan with "further action" if the latter does not release a Chinese fishing captain detained near the disputed Senkaku Islands.
2010-09-22

China announces an investigation into a brand of powdered milk that caused infant girls to grow breasts.
2010-08-12

At least 100 people are feared trapped or buried in a landslide in Guizhou Province in south-west China following continued heavy rain.
2010-06-28

China rejects criticism by the United States of its internet controls, saying it could harm relations between the two countries.
2010-01-22