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World Athletics announces that they will investigate the results of Sunday's Beijing half marathon to determine if Chinese marathon record holder He Jie won because of match fixing.
2024-04-16

Twenty-nine people are killed in a fire at a hospital in Beijing, China.
2023-04-18

Five people are killed and 13 others injured when a man rams his vehicle into a crowd in Guangzhou, China.
2023-01-11

Australia, Canada and the United Kingdom join a U.S.-led diplomatic boycott of the upcoming Winter Olympic Games in Beijing citing China's human rights abuses in the Xinjiang region and Beijing's ongoing freeze on ministerial contact with Canberra.
2021-12-8

China celebrates its National Day with parades across the country, including a large military parade in the capital Beijing.
2019-10-1

The United States issues a health alert in China, following a government employee reporting "abnormal sensations of sound and pressure", one in a range of physical symptoms, from late 2017 through to April 2018. U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says the State Department is moving medical teams into place in Guangzhou, adding that the incident was "entirely consistent" with reported "sonic attacks" in Cuba in 2016 and 2017.
2018-05-23

Cybersecurity software maker Check Point reports "HummingBad" malware has infected at least 10 million Android devices, mostly in China and India. Check Point says a team of developers based in Beijing is behind "HummingBad" which gives hackers administrative-level access to infected devices. Apple devices have been hit by similar malware.
2016-07-5

The People's Republic of China sentences three men to death for a deadly attack at Beijing's Tiananmen Square last October.
2014-06-16

Six people are stabbed to death in a family property dispute in Beijing, China.
2014-03-27

A seven-year-old girl is confirmed as the first person in Beijing, China, to catch the Influenza A virus subtype H7N9 bird flu.
2013-04-13