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
India approves a nasal COVID-19 vaccine to combat COVID-19, becoming the second country to do so after China. 2022-09-6
Chinese authorities announce city-wide COVID-19 testing for 11 million people in Wuhan after the first locally transmitted cases since May 2020 were reported in the city, where three cases that had been found were of the highly-transmissible Lineage B.1.617 Delta variant. 2021-08-3
Eighteen firefighters and their guide are killed by a forest fire in Liangshan, Sichuan, China. 2020-03-31
Russia and China veto a draft United Nations Security Council resolution sponsored by France, the United Kingdom and the United States calling for sanctions against the Syrian government and President Bashar al-Assad over allegations that the government used chemical weapons in the conflict. 2017-03-1
China reports first case of Zika virus disease in a man who had traveled to Venezuela. 2016-02-10
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
A minivan carrying 15 children to kindergarten plunges into a roadside pond in a rural area of eastern China, killing 11 children. 2012-12-24
China criticizes Vietnam for passing a law that claims sovereignty of the Spratly Islands. 2012-06-22
China's unmanned Shenzhou 8 spacecraft successfully returns to Earth, landing in the Inner Mongolia autonomous region after docking twice with the Tiangong-1 orbital laboratory module. 2011-11-17