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A Houthi missile hits Panamanian-flagged, Chinese-owned and operated oil tanker "Huang Pu". It suffers minimal damage and a fire on board is quickly extinguished. No casualties are reported, and the vessel resumes its course.
2024-03-23

At least 39 people are killed and nine others are injured in a fire at a commercial building in Xinyu, Jiangxi, China.
2024-01-24

China reports 115 new cases in the past 24 hours, the largest single-day total in more than five months, bringing the nationwide number of confirmed cases to 87,706.
2021-01-13

Canadian Foreign Minister François-Philippe Champagne announces that Canada has ceased discussing any free trade agreements with China. Canada has walked away from free-trade talks with China amid soured relations over arrest of Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou and the detention of Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor. He states that "the China of 2020 is not the China of 2016".
2020-09-19

Japan launches a ¥70 billion payment scheme to pay firms to move factories out of China to either Japan itself or countries within the Southeast Asian region in an attempt to better secure its supply chains. 57 firms, including face mask manufacturer Iris Ohyama, are among the first to receive the subsidy.
2020-07-18

A lorry loses control at a toll station in Lanzhou, China, killing at least 15 people and injuring 44 others.
2018-11-3

Vietnam seizes a Chinese fishing vessel for intruding in its waters and tows the vessel to the port of Hai Phong.
2016-04-4

The People's Republic of China further devalues the yuan (Renminbi) by 1 percent after two previous devaluings.
2015-08-13

Russia and China veto a United Nations Security Council resolution threatening sanctions against Syria. 11 nations vote in favour while Pakistan and South Africa abstain.
2012-07-19

Japan lodges a formal protest with China after the presence of the latter's patrol boats near the disputed Senkaku Islands.
2012-07-11