China launches the Chang'e 3 lunar probe incorporating a robotic lander and Jade Rabbit rover.
At least nine people are killed and 24 injured after a bus crashes in China's Yunnan province.
Burma accuses the Kachin Independence Army of starting deadly fighting near the Chinese border.
Ming Ming, the oldest panda in the world, dies at the age of 34 in Guangdong, China.
19 people are trapped after a tunnel under construction collapses in southwest China.
At least 19 people are killed in a fire at a shopping mall in northeast China's Jilin City.