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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

The Dow Jones Industrial Average surpasses pre-financial crisis levels, reaching an all-time high, last set in October 2007, after the release of better than expected economic data from the United States and Europe and the Chinese growth target.
2013-03-5

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

Miners in Zambia kill a Chinese mine manager during a riot over pay.
2012-08-5