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At least 12 people are killed and 31 others are missing when a bridge collapses due to flash flooding in Zhashui County, Shaanxi, China.
2024-07-20

Twenty-one people are killed and six others are missing after a mudflow caused by heavy rains occurs near Xi'an, Shaanxi, China. Thousands of people have been evacuated.
2023-08-11

China executes Zhao Zewei by firing squad, the man responsible for killing nine children and injuring 11 others in a knife attack at a middle school in the Shaanxi province.
2018-09-27

A man with a knife kills seven children and wounds twelve more in Mizhi, Shaanxi, China.
2018-04-27

Illegally stored explosives cause an explosion in a house in northwestern China that kills at least 14 people and injures 147 others in the town of Xinmin in Shaanxi province.
2016-10-25

At least eighty-five people are killed in Taiwan and tens of thousands stranded in airports as an unprecedented cold snap hits several Asian countries including China and South Korea.
2016-01-25

Chinese state news agency Xinhua joins critics of Shenyang's handling of serious pollution problems. "The city of Shenyang has failed to apply emergency measures that could have reduced smog, and didn't provide advisories to residents to stay indoors," Xinhua wrote. The BBC reported pollution readings in the northeastern Chinese city have been 50 times higher than levels considered safe by the World Health Organization (WHO).
2015-11-10

The Philippines asks the International Court of Arbitration at The Hague to invalidate China's claims to virtually all of the South China Sea. The hearing was attended by observers from Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Thailand, and Vietnam.
2015-07-9

The death toll from Typhoon Rammasun reaches 94 in the Philippines and 18 in southern China.
2014-07-20

2013 Huangpu River dead pigs incident: More than 12,000 dead pigs are found rotting in the Huangpu River that supplies Shanghai, China, with drinking water.
2013-03-11