Sources: AP
Seven people, including six Italian and Chinese nationals, are killed and at least sixteen others are injured, some severely, when a truck and a van collide and catch fire on U.S. Route 20 near Yellowstone National Park in Idaho, United States. 2025-05-2
Taiwan officially begins extending its compulsory military service from four months to one year amid increased tensions with China. 2024-01-25
Thirteen third grade children are killed and another child is injured in a fire at a boarding school dormitory in Dushu (town), Henan Province, China. The school's director has been arrested. 2024-01-20
The Chinese national statistics office announces that retail sales increased by 2.5% year on year in July, while industrial production increased by 3.7% and unemployment increased to 5.3%. However, further releases of statistics on age-specific data will be suspended. 2023-08-15
The Baihetan Dam, the third largest dam in China and the fourth largest in the world, officially opens. 2021-06-28
The governing body of the International Civil Aviation Organization appoints Juan Carlos Salazar of Colombia as the new Secretary-General of the Organization succeeding Fang Liu of China. 2021-02-25
Nine of the miners who went missing during a mine collapse in Qixia, Shandong, China, are found dead by rescue workers. Yesterday another miner was found dead, bringing the death toll to 10, while eleven others were rescued alive. Another miner is still missing. 2021-01-25
The authorities extends the compulsory quarantine in designed hotels to 21 days for visitors from outside China, Macau, and Taiwan beginning tomorrow and also ban all people who stayed in South Africa over the past 21 days from entering Hong Kong in order to prevent the spread of new variants of SARS-CoV-2. 2020-12-25
China announces the reduction of tariffs on 850 products and measures to open markets in several industries. 2019-12-23
A chain reaction of exploding trucks triggered by a blast during the delivery of acetylene gas at a chemical plant in Zhangjiakou, China, kills 23 people and injures at least 22 others. 2018-11-28