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Prosecutors in China charge multiple funeral directors with selling more than 4,000 corpses to two major medical companies over several decades. Police seized 18 tonnes of bones and 34,000 semi-finished products, with the thieves having earned around 380 million yuan (US$53 million) before they were arrested.
2024-08-9

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) resumes its US$2.9 billion bailout for Sri Lanka, releasing a $337 million tranche, after the country secures a debt restructuring agreement with China, its largest bilateral creditor.
2023-12-12

Brazil and China sign an agreement to trade in their own currencies, ceasing the usage of the United States dollar as an intermediary.
2023-03-29

China's State Administration for Market Regulation issues a link=yes.2 billion ($2.78 billion) fine against technology company Alibaba over anti-competitive practices which forced merchants to choose one of two platforms, rather than being able to work with both.
2021-04-10

China and the United States announced a tentative agreement for the "first phase" of a trade deal, with China agreeing to buy up to $50 billion in American farm products with the United States agreeing to suspend new tariffs scheduled for October 15.
2019-10-11

Wu Xiaohui, head of Chinese insurance firm Anbang, is jailed for eighteen years for fraud and corruption. He is further sentenced to have 10.5 billion yuan confiscated.
2018-05-10

The Central Bank of Russia announces it will start buying the Chinese yuan in an attempt to diversify its foreign-currency reserves away from the Euro and the U.S. dollar and to become less vulnerable to Western sanctions.
2016-07-5

China fines Glaxosmithkline US$490 million for its alleged involvement in a bribery scandal.
2014-09-19

Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard, on a trip to Shanghai, China, announces that the Australian dollar is set to trade directly with the Chinese yuan, becoming the third currency to do so.
2013-04-8

China's yuan reaches a record level against the United States dollar.
2011-05-9