Sources: BBC
Environmental investigators determine that the February 2025 failure of a tailings dam owned by a Chinese copper mining company dumped 50 million liters of highly toxic waste into the Kafue River basin, killing ecosystems up to 100 km (62 mi) downstream and impacting the water supply, fishing activities, and irrigation of 60% of Zambia's population. 2025-03-15
China opens the world's largest indoor skiing resort in Pudong, Shanghai, with a 90000 m2 skiing area and a total campus area of 350000 m2. 2024-09-6
The Philippines says that it will respond to any Chinese attempts to interfere with its resupply of troops in the South China Sea. 2024-04-3
Zambia reports its first three cases of the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant in two citizens who travelled internationally and another citizen who had no travel history. 2021-12-4
Kiribati becomes the latest country in the Pacific to block Chinese travelers by placing all visa applications from China on hold and ordering all those coming from countries with confirmed cases of the virus to self-quarantine. 2020-02-1
A highway bridge collapses onto cars in Wuxi, China, trapping multiple vehicles. Search and rescue operations commence. 2019-10-10
Three large shipbuilders in the People's Republic of China announce that they are in talks to merge. This is part of an ongoing shake-up and consolidation of that industry in the face of high operational costs and sluggish new orders. 2019-07-10
Brazilian Vice President Hamilton Mourão says the government will not exclude Chinese telecom company Huawei Technologies Co. from operating a fifth-generation (5G) mobile telecom network. 2019-06-7
A man with a knife kills seven children and wounds twelve more in Mizhi, Shaanxi, China. 2018-04-27
Benjamin Pierce Bishop, a civil defense contractor who works in intelligence, was charged with giving U.S. national security secrets his Chinese girlfriend. 2013-03-19