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The government of Beijing, China, orders employers to suspend outdoor work due to extreme temperatures expected to reach 40 C.
2023-07-6

The European Commission bans Chinese-owned social media platform TikTok from corporate devices used by its staff, citing data protection concerns.
2023-02-23

Twenty-one runners die and eight more are injured when high winds and freezing rain strike a long-distance race in Jingtai, Gansu, China.
2021-05-22

Iraq receives 50,000 doses of the Sinopharm vaccines donated by China as the country officially begins its vaccination campaign.
2021-03-2

An expert committee of the U.S. National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine releases a report, concluding that "directed" microwave radiation was the likely cause of illnesses among American diplomats in Cuba and China.
2020-12-6

China reports no new cases for the first time since the pandemic began, according to the National Health Commission.
2020-05-23

Nobel Peace Laureate Liu Xiaobo, who has been incarcerated in China for organizing the pro-democracy manifesto "Charter 08," is suffering from late-stage liver cancer which is worsening. The Chinese hospital treating him and foreign doctors, who examined Liu the weekend, disagree on future treatment. Germany, the United States, UK, and other countries have appealed that Liu be allowed to go to the hospital of his choice.
2017-07-12

Argentina's coastguard says it has sunk a Chinese fishing trawler that was operating illegally within its territorial waters. The coastguard says it rescued four of the trawler's crew while others who abandoned ship were picked up by another Chinese vessel shadowing the pursuit.
2016-03-15

The death toll from a landslide in a village in China's Zhejiang province rises to 25 with 12 people still missing.
2015-11-16

A freight elevator crashes 100 meters and kills 19 construction workers in Wuhan, Hubei province, China.
2012-09-13