Sources: Reuters
At least 39 people are killed and nine others are injured in a fire at a commercial building in Xinyu, Jiangxi, China. 2024-01-24
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
The European Union imposes sanctions against several officials in China for human rights abuses in Xinjiang. These sanctions are Europe's first since the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests. 2021-03-22
The Philippines receives its first shipment of 600,000 doses of the Sinovac CoronaVac donated by China. 2021-02-28
China condemns U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo's decision yesterday to remove the militant group East Turkestan Islamic Movement from his department's list of designated foreign terrorist groups. 2020-11-6
British retailer Tesco suspends operations at a factory in China after the "Sunday Times" newspaper reports that a six-year-old in London found a message from Shanghai prisoners calling for help and urging whoever finds the message to alert a human rights organisation, with a link to the author of the story, hidden inside a pack of charity Christmas cards. Tesco says that it has a policy against using prison labour. 2019-12-22
The Kiribati High Court clears the way for the opposition to file a motion of no confidence against President Taneti Mamau amid reported discontent with the government's decision to switch its diplomatic recognition of Taiwan to recognition of the People's Republic of China. 2019-11-11
The death toll from yesterday's earthquake in China's Sichuan province rises to four with 54 injured. 2014-11-23
Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard, on a trip to Shanghai, China, announces that the Australian dollar is set to trade directly with the Chinese yuan, becoming the third currency to do so. 2013-04-8
A sixth person dies in the People's Republic of China from the Influenza A virus subtype H7N9, after the closure of poultry markets in the city of Shanghai and a mass culling of 20,000 birds. 2013-04-5