Sources: AFP
Sweden reports its first case of H5N1 bird flu in a porpoise. 2022-08-31
At least eleven people die in China's Guangdong Province when a bridge collapses while being built. 2014-05-4
Hong Kong and China's Guangdong Province is hit by Category 4 Typhoon Vicente, resulting in scores of people injured, cancellation of flights and closure of businesses. 2012-07-24
China announces a breakthrough in spent nuclear fuel reprocessing technology that could solve the country's uranium supply problem. 2011-01-3
20 people are reported arrested in China over imprisoned human rights activist Liu Xiaobo's 2010 Nobel Peace Prize award. Liu's wife's whereabouts remain unknown after she was taken away by police with human rights group Freedom Now claiming she is in de facto house arrest. 2010-10-10
China considers removing the death penalty for several economic crimes. 2010-08-23
Seven people are killed and fourteen injured in a bomb attack in China's Xinjiang province. Although the region has recently been embroiled in violence including Muslim separatists and majority Han Chinese, the attack is being investigated as a criminal case. 2010-08-19
China sentences an Uyghur journalist who spoke to foreign media after riots in Xinjiang last year to 15 years imprisonment. 2010-07-23
Six people are attacked with a meat cleaver before the assailant commits suicide at a market in Foshan, China. 2010-05-17
More than a dozen Chinese newspapers publish a rare joint editorial calling for the end of the hukou system of household registration. 2010-03-2