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

At least 38 people are killed and 6 injured in a nursing home fire in Lushan County of China's Henan Province.
2015-05-25

The People's Republic of China sends its first minister-level official to Taiwan to build ties with the self-governing island amid trade suspicions.
2014-06-25

Japanese Defense Minister Itsunori Onodera states that the country has lodged a protest with China after a People's Liberation Army Navy frigate directed weapon-targeting radar at a Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force destroyer near the disputed Senkaku Islands.
2013-02-5

A Chinese court sentences dissident Chen Wei to nine years imprisonment for "inciting subversion of state power", after he published essays online calling for multiparty democracy.
2011-12-23

South Korea agrees to hold talks with North Korea about a potential eruption of Baekdu Mountain near the North's border with the People's Republic of China.
2011-03-22

Chinese prosecutors say more than 600 people were killed over a period of seven years in Yunnan due to official misconduct.
2011-01-8

China rules out a meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan at the United Nations to resolve an ongoing diplomatic row, saying the timing is "not proper".
2010-09-21

Japan says China has shipped drilling equipment to a disputed gas field amid a diplomatic row over the seizure of a Chinese fishing boat captain near the disputed Senkaku Islands.
2010-09-17

Henan Airlines Flight 8387, carrying 91 people on board, overshoots the runway and bursts into flames in Yichun City in Heilongjiang, northeastern China; at least 43 people are reported dead.
2010-08-24