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President of Russia Vladimir Putin meets with President of China Xi Jinping in Beijing, China.
2024-05-16

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

The closing ceremony of the Winter Paralympics is held in Beijing.
2022-03-13

The National Health Commission of China reports a third death from coronavirus, the number of infected having increased by 136 during the weekend. The report comes as authorities confirmed that the virus spread from Wuhan to major cities, including Shenzhen, Beijing, and Hong Kong.
2020-01-20

Tens of thousands of people gather in Hong Kong to mark the 30th anniversary of the crackdown on protests in Beijing's Tiananmen Square. Hong Kong is one of the two places in China where people can openly commemorate the event, the other being Macau, to a lesser extent; elsewhere in China, the authorities have banned and blocked any reference to the crackdown.
2019-06-4

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

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

Chen Xitong former mayor of Beijing apologises for deaths during the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests, adding that they could have been avoided, in a book released in Hong Kong this week.
2012-05-29

A Chinese student from Beijing studying at York University in Toronto is found dead after a male stalker entered her room to use a cell phone while she was chatting online via webcam to a friend in China; she was found undressed and her computer is missing.
2011-04-15