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Ten people are killed and nine others injured in a fire at an apartment block in Ürümqi, Xinjiang, China.
2022-11-25

A restaurant fire kills 17 people and injures three others in Changchun, Jilin, China.
2022-09-28

Four people are killed and 13 are injured after a gas explosion in Tianjin, China.
2022-07-19

China decides to making regular COVID-19 testing mandatory for its citizens with setting up thousands of permanent PCR testing stations, with 9,000 already completed in Shanghai alone, as authorities aim to "normalise" tough pandemic controls even after the current round of lockdowns end.
2022-05-6

The "Wall Street Journal" reports a contingent of U.S. special forces soldiers have been deployed in Taiwan to train Taiwanese forces amid tensions with China. The military trainers were first deployed under the Trump administration.
2021-10-7

A court in China upholds the death sentence of a Canadian man convicted of drug smuggling. The man, originally sentenced to 15 years imprisonment, had his sentence upgraded on appeal. Canadian authorities say that the sentence is in retaliation for the arrest of Meng Wanzhou, the CFO of Huawei, in Vancouver in 2018.
2021-08-10

A bus veers off the Second Wanzhou Yangtze River Bridge and plunges into the Yangtze River in Chongqing, China after its driver was distracted by an unruly passenger, killing at least 13 people.
2018-10-29

At least 38 people are dead after a bus collides with a van carrying flammable liquids in China's Hunan province.
2014-07-19

The death toll from the recently discovered H7N9 bird flu rises to six. China begin slaughtering birds in hopes of containing the disease.
2013-04-4

Former U.S. Air Force lieutenant colonel James Fondren is sentenced to three years in prison for providing classified documents to Chinese spy Tai Shen Kuo.
2010-01-22