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Three people are killed and fifteen others are injured in a mass stabbing at a supermarket in Songjiang district, Shanghai, China. Police arrest a 37-year-old man at the scene, adding that the man had come to Shanghai in order to "vent his anger due to a personal economic dispute".
2024-09-30

Chinese authorities extend the lockdown in Shanghai after more than 13,000 people test positive for COVID-19.
2022-04-5

Japan announces that it will cull 143,000 chickens after reporting an outbreak of the "highly pathogenic avian influenza" at a poultry farm in Yokote, Akita Prefecture.
2021-11-10

South Korea issues a 48-hour standstill order on all poultry farms across the country following a series of highly pathogenic bird flu (H5N8) cases.
2020-12-12

Poland's local veterinary authorities states that they will cull 930,000 hens in a farm in western Poland due to an H5N8 bird flu outbreak in the village of Wroniawy which was discovered yesterday.
2020-11-25

Five bodies are recovered from MV "Shunqiang 2", which sank the day before after colliding with another ship near Shanghai.
2018-07-16

China is dealing with two typhoons in a week. Typhoon Linfa lost power after making landfall in southern China's Guangdong province Thursday. Typhoon Chan-hom (Falcon) is headed for landfall in eastern China near Shanghai this weekend.
2015-07-10

A sixth person dies in the People's Republic of China from the Influenza A virus subtype H7N9, after the closure of poultry markets in the city of Shanghai and a mass culling of 20,000 birds.
2013-04-5

Authorities in China report four more critical cases of the H7N9 strain of bird flu, taking the total of known cases to seven.
2013-04-2

Two people die in China from H7N9 avian influenza infection – a sub-type that had not previously been transmitted to humans.
2013-03-31