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A Houthi missile hits Panamanian-flagged, Chinese-owned and operated oil tanker "Huang Pu". It suffers minimal damage and a fire on board is quickly extinguished. No casualties are reported, and the vessel resumes its course.
2024-03-23

The Butantan Institute opens a factory that will develop more products of China’s CoronaVac COVID-19 vaccine beginning in 2023.
2022-03-25

The United Kingdom formally declares China to be in breach of the 1984 Sino-British Joint Declaration, saying that China is now in "a state of ongoing non-compliance" of the treaty. Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab says that the UK will "continue to stand up for the people of Hong Kong".
2021-03-13

The U.S. Treasury Department imposes sanctions on 11 current and former Chinese officials, including current Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam and Chinese envoy to Hong Kong Luo Huining, citing her role last year in attempting to pass an extradition law and, more recently, her involvement in "developing, adopting or implementing" the Hong Kong national security law.
2020-08-7

Eighteen firefighters and their guide are killed by a forest fire in Liangshan, Sichuan, China.
2020-03-31

China's Hefei Institutes of Physical Science announces that its Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST) reactor in Hefei has reached a milestone of 100 million degrees celsius.
2018-11-13

Taiwan accuses China of "extrajudicial abduction" after 45 Taiwanese acquitted of fraud in Kenya were forcibly deported to China.
2016-04-12

China begins a major effort to boost its economic growth with business tax breaks and export liberalization, amid an increasing industrial slowdown.
2013-07-25

Former Chinese Politburo member Bo Xilai is expelled from the Communist Party of China.
2012-09-28

Hand, foot and mouth disease kills 149 people in Hunan, China. [http:--www.bangkokpost.com-news-asia-302561-china-on-alert-as-disease-outbreak-kills-112-in-june ("Bangkok Post")]date=August 2019
2012-07-15