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The World Bank halts new lending to Uganda in response to the Anti-Homosexuality Act bill, approved months ago.
2023-08-8

Nicaragua severs diplomatic relations with Taiwan and establishes diplomatic relations with the People's Republic of China.
2021-12-10

Google and Samsung have asked an agency of the government of the People's Republic of China to impose limiting conditions on a proposed merger of Microsoft and Nokia.
2014-03-3

Two Japanese cabinet ministers, Jin Matsubara and Yuichiro Hata, visit the controversial Yasukuni Shrine amid territorial disputes with both the People's Republic of China and South Korea.
2012-08-15

A US$600 million project to revamp the Democratic Republic of the Congo's colonial-era railway system is launched in the capital Kinshasa, primarily funded by the World Bank and China.
2011-05-12

Almost all of 169 Chinese Christians detained on Sunday, after they tried to hold an outdoor prayer session, are released; the unofficial Chinese church vows to hold more services.
2011-04-12

South Korea agrees to hold talks with North Korea about a potential eruption of Baekdu Mountain near the North's border with the People's Republic of China.
2011-03-22

Taiwan says it will end restrictions on Philippine workers imposed after a row over the deportation of 14 Taiwanese to mainland China.
2011-03-9

China suspends high level diplomatic exchanges with Japan after the latter extended the detention of a Chinese fishing captain.
2010-09-19

China prepares to celebrate New Year holidays with tens of millions of people travelling and fireworks anticipated.
2010-02-13