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China reports 144 new cases, the majority in Hebei and Heilongjiang provinces. This is the highest number of daily cases in the past 10 months and brings the nationwide total of confirmed cases to 87,988.
2021-01-15

Indonesia signs a deal with Chinese company Sinovac Biotech to purchase 50 million doses of a COVID-19 vaccine.
2020-08-22

China confirms the 2018 birth of the world's first genetically edited babies, Lulu and Nana, saying He Jiankui forged ethical review papers and organised a project team with foreign staff, which intentionally avoided surveillance, and that He and his staff will be punished according to laws and regulations. The Guangdong government will keep the twins under medical observation with the support of the national departments.
2019-01-21

Thousands of people are reported to have spontaneously marched in southern China's village of Wukan in Guangdong province over the arrest of the village's democratically elected leader, 70-year-old Lin Zuluan, who had been planning meetings and protests about corruption, illegal land grabs, and the government's failure to return land to the people, per the 2011 agreement.
2016-06-19

A fire in a coal mine in China's Liaoning province kills 24 miners and injures another 52.
2014-11-26

Dozens of people are dead after a mob armed with knives rampages through township of Elixku in China's restive Xinjiang region and is met with gunfire.
2014-07-29

Typhoon Matmo (Henry) is expected to make landfall over Taiwan en route to eastern China later in the week.
2014-07-22

China's National Meteorological Center of CMA warns of heavy smog in northern and central China over the next two days.
2014-02-25

China's economy grew at a rate of 7.8 percent in the third quarter.
2013-10-18

An explosion at a plastics factory in Nanjing, China, kills at least 12 people and injures hundreds.
2010-07-28