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Six Chinese gold miners and two Congolese soldiers are killed during an attack against a gold mine in Ituri Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo. Two other workers are kidnapped. CODECO claims responsibility for the attack.
2024-07-4

The Chinese government reports that the fishing vessel "Lu Peng Yuan Yu 028" capsized in the central Indian Ocean on Tuesday. China and other countries are conducting search operations for 39 sailors, including Chinese, Indonesian, and Filipino nationals.
2023-05-17

Chinese Minister for Foreign Affairs Wang Yi asks the Taliban during a conference in Dushanbe, Tajikistan, to make a "clean break" with all terrorist forces, especially the al-Qaeda-backed East Turkestan Islamic Movement, and to return to mainstream Afghan politics.
2021-07-14

New Zealand police confirm that a bus carrying 27 Chinese tourists crashed in bad weather near Rotorua and left at least five dead and six injured.
2019-09-4

A boat with 31 people on board, including more than 20 Chinese tourists, goes missing after sailing from the eastern Malaysian port of Kota Kinabalu to visit the island of Pulau Mengalum.
2017-01-28

The death toll from an explosion at an auto parts factory on Saturday in the Chinese city of Kunshan rises to 75 with investigators blaming faulty safety measures.
2014-08-4

Liu Zhijun, the leader of the construction of the Chinese bullet train system and Minister of Railways, is arrested on corruption charges for allegedly taking bribes and abusing his power as Minister of Railways.
2013-04-10

At least two people are killed and five others are injured when a man, believed to be a Chinese worker, goes on a stabbing rampage at a fish processing firm in Etajima, Japan.
2013-03-14

A teenage Tibetan Buddhist nun Tenzin Choedon dies after setting herself on fire in protest against Chinese rule of Tibet in Sichuan province.
2012-02-12

Nepalese authorities ban exiled Tibetans from celebrating the Dalai Lama's birthday for fears that the gatherings will turn anti-Chinese.
2011-07-6