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Russia announces that it will join the People's Republic of China in naval drills in the South China Sea in May 2016.
2015-05-31

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

The trade surplus of the People's Republic of China rises to US$31.5 billion in July, the highest level in two years.
2011-08-10

Three children die after drinking suspected nitrite- (as opposed to 2008's melamine-) tainted milk in China; 35 others are hospitalized.
2011-04-8

China blocks searches for "Egypt" on its internet and restricts media coverage.
2011-01-29

A Chinese activist Zhao Lianhai who campaigned for victims of the tainted milk scandal in 2008 is jailed for two and half years for "inciting social disorder".
2010-11-10

A gas explosion in a Chinese coal mine in Henan province kills at least 20 workers. Another 17 are declared missing.
2010-10-16

Chinese officials seize 64 tonnes of raw dairy materials contaminated with melamine.
2010-07-9

A Chinese dissident lawyer, Gao Zhisheng, who has been missing for over a year, says he is "free" and wanting to spend time away from media attention.
2010-03-28

New traces of melamine in milk products are discovered in China, more than a year after thousands of children became ill from a previous incident.
2010-01-25