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Forty-eight people are killed and 30 more injured as twenty-three vehicles fell down during a highway collapse in Meizhou, Guangdong, China.
2024-05-1

China expels Canadian diplomat Jennifer Lynn Lalonde in a tit-for-tat decision following the expulsion of Zhao Wei.
2023-05-9

Chinese authorities announce city-wide COVID-19 testing for 11 million people in Wuhan after the first locally transmitted cases since May 2020 were reported in the city, where three cases that had been found were of the highly-transmissible Lineage B.1.617 Delta variant.
2021-08-3

China becomes the first major country to authorize the emergency use of the Sinovac CoronaVac vaccine for children as young as three years old.
2021-06-5

The China National Space Administration probe Chang'e 5 lifts off from the surface of the moon as it begins a journey back to Earth after collecting samples of lunar soil. The ascender will rendezvous with the orbiter, transferring over the samples, and the orbiter will then land at a location in Inner Mongolia, China.
2020-12-3

China executes Zhao Zewei by firing squad, the man responsible for killing nine children and injuring 11 others in a knife attack at a middle school in the Shaanxi province.
2018-09-27

China's unmanned lunar rover Yutu shuts down after exploring the Moon for 31 months.
2016-08-4

Typhoon Rammasun (Glenda) heads for southern China and northern Vietnam after killing at least 38 people in the Philippines with eight missing.
2014-07-17

China's mission begins the descent phase to the moon that will likely make it one of only three countries to reach it. The landing is estimated to occur at 8:40 a.m. EST, December 14.
2013-12-13

China cracks down on dissenters, banning two leading human rights lawyers from practicing and exiling a leading HIV-AIDS campaigner from the country.
2010-05-11