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Five people are killed when a barge collides with the Lixinsha Bridge in Guangzhou, China.
2024-02-22

Five people are killed and 13 others injured when a man rams his vehicle into a crowd in Guangzhou, China.
2023-01-11

A man detonates a bomb in a government building in Guangzhou, China, killing four people and himself, along with injuring five others.
2021-03-22

A court in China sentences an Australian man to death for drug trafficking. The man had been arrested in 2013 at Baiyun Airport in Guangzhou. The Australian government condemns the verdict.
2020-06-13

Takuma Sakuragi, a 76-year-old former Japanese assemblyman from Inazawa, Aichi, is sentenced to life in prison by the Guangzhou City First Intermediate Court in southern China for smuggling drugs hidden in his suitcase at Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport in October 2013. He had been detained by Chinese authorities since then.
2019-11-8

The United States expand their health alert from Guangzhou to all of China, after it repatriated multiple employees with symptoms resembling a brain injury.
2018-06-8

The United States issues a health alert in China, following a government employee reporting "abnormal sensations of sound and pressure", one in a range of physical symptoms, from late 2017 through to April 2018. U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says the State Department is moving medical teams into place in Guangzhou, adding that the incident was "entirely consistent" with reported "sonic attacks" in Cuba in 2016 and 2017.
2018-05-23

Human rights activists claim that three pro-democracy advocates have been sentenced to up to five years imprisonment on charges of attempting to overthrow the Communist Party government in Guangzhou. [http:--www.startribune.com-china-sentences-3-rights-activists-to-prison-amid-crackdown-366949461- (AP via "Star Tribune")]date=August 2019
2016-01-29

China officially opens the world's longest high-speed rail route, which links Beijing and Guangzhou.
2012-12-26

2011 Zengcheng riot: Police in Xintang Town, Zengcheng, Guangzhou area, Guangdong, fire tear gas and use armoured vehicles on workers, including Sichuan migrant workers protesting what they consider the abuse of a pregnant Sichuanese colleague by security guards, after protesters flipped over and burned police vehicles.
2011-06-13