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A landslide in Zhaotong, Yunnan, China, kills at least eight people and buries 47 others. Over 200 people are evacuated.
2024-01-22

Russia becomes China's biggest supplier of oil, surpassing Saudi Arabia and making up over half of China's oil imports.
2022-06-21

The United States Senate unanimously votes to pass the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act, a bill that would ban products from Xinjiang in China, unless they are certified as not from the Xinjiang internment camps.
2021-07-14

China National Space Administration rover "Zhurong" successfully lands at Utopia Planitia on Mars, making China the third nation on Earth to achieve a soft landing on the planet.
2021-05-15

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

The China National Space Administration successfully launches Chang'e 4 from Xichang Satellite Launch Center which will attempt the first ever robotic landing on the far side of the Moon in 2019.
2018-12-7

An alleged arson attack kills 18 in a karaoke lounge in Qingyuan, China. A suspect is arrested.
2018-04-24

The People's Republic of China sentences three men to death for a deadly attack at Beijing's Tiananmen Square last October.
2014-06-16

Russia and China have blocked a proposal by the United States and France to impose U.N. sanctions on Central African Republic's former President François Bozizé and two other people linked to the conflict.
2014-04-23

China's first lunar vehicle is named 'YuTu' (Chinese:"玉兔", a pet rabbit of Moon goddess in Chinese myth "see Jade rabbit") and is planned to launch from Xichang Satellite Launch Center before December 10, 2013.
2013-11-28