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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

Four American instructors from Cornell College in Iowa, United States, and one Chinese passerby are wounded in a stabbing attack at a park in Jilin City, China. The perpetrator is arrested a day later.
2024-06-10

Australia and India sign a A$12.6 billion trade deal aimed at strengthening India's manufacturing sector by allowing access to more raw materials, and to also reduce Australia's dependence on China after China placed sanctions on some Australian goods following several political disputes.
2022-04-2

China National Space Administration rover "Zhurong" successfully lands at Utopia Planitia on Mars, making China the third nation on Earth to achieve a soft landing on the planet.
2021-05-15

North Korea stated that it would dismantle the Punggye-ri Nuclear Test Site between May 23–25 ahead of the Donald Trump-Kim Jong-un summit meeting. Furthermore, North Korea invited journalists from the United States, South Korea, China, Russia, and the United Kingdom to cover the process.
2018-05-12

The "chargé d'affaires" of the U.S. Embassy in Beijing, China, resigns following President Donald Trump's announcement he will withdraw the United States from the 2015 international Paris Agreement on climate change mitigation.
2017-06-5

Taiwan scrambles navy ships and jets as Chinese warships, led by the aircraft carrier "Liaoning", sail through the Taiwan Strait following exercises in the South China Sea.
2017-01-11

A series of explosions in an apartment building in Harbin, China, kills at least three people and injures dozens more.
2016-10-4

Typhoon Rammasun (Glenda) heads for southern China and northern Vietnam after killing at least 38 people in the Philippines with eight missing.
2014-07-17

Gu Kailai, the wife of ousted Chongqing Politburo leader Bo Xilai, is given a suspended death sentence for the murder of Neil Heywood in China.
2012-08-20