Sources: BBC
Thirteen third grade children are killed and another child is injured in a fire at a boarding school dormitory in Dushu (town), Henan Province, China. The school's director has been arrested. 2024-01-20
A court in China upholds the death sentence of a Canadian man convicted of drug smuggling. The man, originally sentenced to 15 years imprisonment, had his sentence upgraded on appeal. Canadian authorities say that the sentence is in retaliation for the arrest of Meng Wanzhou, the CFO of Huawei, in Vancouver in 2018. 2021-08-10
A ~8 m asteroid falls over Nangqên, in western China on the Qinghai-Tibet border. This was the largest asteroid to hit Earth since the Kamchatka meteor in 2018, and the largest to fall over land since the Chelyabinsk meteor in 2013. 2020-12-23
The United Nations Security Council approves aid deliveries to northwest Syria through one border crossing with Turkey, a day after its authorization for the six-year-long humanitarian operation ended. Russia and China abstain today on this week's fifth attempt to approve this help. 2020-07-11
Netizens launch a satiric contest for apologizing to China on social media after numerous artists apologized online. 2016-07-18
Xi Jinping, the General Secretary of the Communist Party of China and President of China, assures that China will prevent war breaking out between North Korea and South Korea. 2016-04-28
Typhoon Soudelor makes landfall in mainland China in Fujian province with 250,000 having been evacuated from that province and Zhejiang province. 2015-08-8
Five people are killed after a car crashes into barriers just outside the Forbidden City in Tiananmen Square, Beijing, China. 2013-10-28
Typhoon Fitow makes landfall in the Chinese province of Fujian, bringing heavy rain and killing at least two people. 2013-10-7
The U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, Timothy Geithner, says at a meeting in Nanjing, China that the "most important problem" in the world's monetary system is that some countries refuse to allow the free flow of the value of their currency. 2011-03-31