Sources: CNN
China's General Administration of Customs announces a ban on food imports from ten Japanese prefectures, citing safety concerns over Japan's plan to discharge treated radioactive waste water from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant into the Pacific Ocean. 2023-07-7
Four people are killed and 41 others injured by a 5.9 magnitude earthquake in Sichuan, China. 2022-06-1
A planned US$66 billion merger between British semiconductor company Arm Ltd. and American hardware company Nvidia is cancelled after facing regulatory pressures from the United States, the European Union, the United Kingdom, and China. Arm says that it will instead go public sometime before March 2023. If the deal were successful, it would have been the largest merger in the history of the semiconductor industry. 2022-02-8
China is expected to begin administering vaccines to healthcare, transport, and border control workers. 2020-12-19
Indonesia signs a deal with Chinese company Sinovac Biotech to purchase 50 million doses of a COVID-19 vaccine. 2020-08-22
A hotel being used for quarantining those with COVID-19 collapses in Quanzhou, Fujian, China. Ten people were killed and twenty-three are trapped. Thirty-eight have been rescued alive. 2020-03-7
Panasonic will stop making lithium-ion batteries for phones and cameras in Beijing, China, with a cut of 1,300 jobs. The company will instead refocus on higher-margin products such as electric car batteries. 2015-08-27
Authorities in China report four more critical cases of the H7N9 strain of bird flu, taking the total of known cases to seven. 2013-04-2
China's best-known microblogging site Sina Weibo introduces new restrictions on the content its 300 million users can post. 2012-05-29
China expresses concern at North Korea's intention to launch a satellite next month to mark the centenary of founder Kim Il-sung's birth. 2012-03-17