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Two people are killed and 266 others are injured by Typhoon Gaemi in northern Taiwan as the typhoon passes through Fujian province, China, and heads inland.
2024-07-24

Chinese authorities place 4.9 million people in Langfang under lockdown for the next seven days and also subject them to mass testing in an attempt to reduce the spread of COVID-19.
2021-01-12

Prominent democracy campaigner and DJ Tam Tak-chi is charged with sedition under the colonial-era sedition law and is the first person charged with that crime since the 1997 handover of sovereignty from the United Kingdom to China.
2020-09-8

China reports 127 new cases of COVID-19 in the last 24 hours. From that, 123 of them were locally transmitted which includes 112 in Xinjiang and 11 in Liaoning. It is the highest number of cases reported since March 5.
2020-07-31

A man attacks a kindergarten class in Kaiyuan, China, with chemical spray, injuring 51 children and three teachers.
2019-11-12

U.S. Vice President Mike Pence cancels a meeting with Solomon Islands Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare in response to the country's move to cut ties with Taiwan and establish relations with China.
2019-09-18

China dispatches 2,500 People's Liberation Army soldiers to Yunnan province to search for hundreds of people missing after the earthquake.
2014-08-4

Wells Fargo of the United States becomes the world's largest bank by market capitalisation, replacing the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China amid an economic slowdown in China. [http:--www.france24.com-en-20130724-wells-fargo-deposes-chinas-icbc-worlds-biggest-bank (AFP via France 24)]date=July 2019
2013-07-24

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

A coal mine explosion kills 5 in China's Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region.
2010-06-27