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The People's Republic of China evacuates 200,000 people from Shanghai ahead of Typhoon Haikui which is expected to make landfall in Zhejiang early tonight or tomorrow morning.
2012-08-7

Tibetan advocacy groups claim that as many as seven ethnic Tibetans have been killed and 60 wounded in the past week in protests in China's Sichuan province bordering Tibet.
2012-01-30

Floods and landslides caused by a week of heavy rain in the People's Republic of China have killed at least 57 people and made as many as a million people homeless.
2011-09-20

7 people are killed during heavy floods in Sichuan Province in the People's Republic of China.
2011-07-6

Activist Hu Jia is released after serving three and a half years in jail for criticising human rights conditions in China.
2011-06-25

More than 20 quarry workers are buried by a landslide in Luojiang near the Chinese resort city of Guilin.
2011-05-9

North Korea announces it will release seven detained Chinese and South Korean fishermen.
2010-09-6

Landslides in the village of Wama near Baoshan in China kill at least 12 people with 36 missing.
2010-09-3

A landslide in China's Sichuan Province caused by heavy rains results in 21 people being missing.
2010-07-27

9 people, including 7 children, are killed at a school near Hanzhong city, Shaanxi, China.
2010-05-12