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Five people are killed when a barge collides with the Lixinsha Bridge in Guangzhou, China.
2024-02-22

A dinosaur fossil, given the name "Fujianvenator", is discovered in Fujian, China. The dinosaur has two legs and two other limbs, possibly wings, thereby giving insight into the evolution of birds.
2023-09-6

Four people are killed and five others are injured in an explosion at a steel mill in Yingkou, Liaoning, China.
2023-06-23

China reports more than 3,100 cases of COVID-19, a new single-day record.
2022-03-12

A federal grand jury in the United States charges four members of China’s People's Liberation Army with the 2017 Equifax hack.
2020-02-10

Pro-democracy activist Joshua Wong urges Germany to stop military assistance to China.
2019-11-17

Teams of United States-based researchers, composed of American, Chinese and South Korean scientists, successfully edit a piece of faulty DNA that causes a deadly form of heart disease from cells in human embryos.
2017-08-2

A bus crashes and catches fire carrying tourists returning from a China tour on the Gyeongbu Expressway near Ulsan, South Korea, leaving ten people killed and nine injured.
2016-10-14

At an event hosted by Center for Strategic and International Studies, Foreign Minister Wang Yi expresses China's concerns that the planned deployment of the THAAD missile defense system and the X band radar for which the South Korea and the United States have started talks to secure its approval in order to counter the growing threat of North Korea's weapons capabilities could jeopardize the country's "legitimate national security interests." At the Pentagon, Harry Harris, the commander of U.S. forces in the Pacific, said that if China wanted to prevent consideration of the THAAD system's deployment, it should lean on Pyongyang saying, "If China wanted to exert a lot of influence on somebody to prevent THAAD from being considered going into Korea, then they should exert that influence on North Korea."
2016-02-25

The death toll in China from Typhoon Fanapi reaches 54 with dozens more people missing.
2010-09-23