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The Chinese securities regulator introduces legislation limiting the sale of shares by shareholders.
2016-01-7

At least 25 people are dead in Hong Kong and southern China after Typhoon Usagi passes through with the storm having killed eight people in the Philippines.
2013-09-23

Hundreds of workers continue a strike in southern China for a fifth day amid a labour dispute.
2011-12-8

The owner of China's fourth-most visited website, Sohu.com Inc, posted a better-than-estimated 41 percent gain in profit after the company raised prices and boosted services such as video sharing.
2011-02-1

China begins the first test flights of private helicopters in its airspace.
2011-01-29

Tropical Storm Meranti is forecast to bring heavy rains to Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi and Hainan provinces in the People's Republic of China, as well as in Taiwan.
2010-09-9

Authorities in China sentence Chinese-American geologist Xue Feng to 8 years in prison for "selling state secrets"; the U.S. expresses "dismay" at the sentence.
2010-07-5

China encourages North Korea and South Korea to avoid violent clashes in the aftermath of the sinking of a South Korean warship.
2010-05-30

The Ministry of Commerce of the People's Republic of China rejects Tengzhong's bid to purchase Hummer from General Motors.
2010-02-24

New Zealanders, Britons, Chinese and Irish tourists are among the thousands trapped after mudslides in the Incan capital Machu Picchu.
2010-01-27