Google in an unusual move revealed that its servers have been hacked in an attempt to access information about Chinese dissidents, and that Google is no longer willing to censor searches in China and may pull out of the country.[6][7]
China's top search engine Baidu is allegedly attacked by Iranian hackers, sparking a retaliatory attack by Chinese hackers on Iranian sites.[8]
Chinese authorities increases controls on the internet, requiring anyone who wishes to set up a website to produce identification and meet regulators.[18]
March 11 – Hong Kong 's TVB GM Stephen Chan and four others are arrested on charges of corruption.[21] TVB suspends Chan and two TVB staff were suspended from their duties.[22]
At 3 am Hong Kong Time (UTC+8), Google started to redirect all search queries from Google.cn to Google.com.hk. (Google Hong Kong), thereby bypassing Chinese regulators and allowing uncensored Simplified Chinese search results.[24][25]
June 15 – Heavy rain triggers landslides that leave at least 24 people dead in Sichuan province's Kangding county. In one incident, part of a mountain fell on a construction site in Sichuan province, crushing workers who were sleeping in tents.[58][59]
June 19 – 2010 South China floods: Flooding in South China kills at least 88 people, and forces nearly 750,000 people to leave their homes.[60]
July 31 – An explosion in a coal mine in Shanxi Province, China leaves 17 people dead while 24 miners are trapped by flooding in a nearby mine.[80]
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August 1 –
Floods in northeastern China kill more than 100 people and sweep 3,000 chemical-filled barrels into the Songhua River.[81]
Hebei tractor rampage: A drunk man on a tractor kills 17 people and injures many others in a rampage in northern China.[82]
August 3 - 2010 Weiyuan riot
August 6 – China suspends traffic on the Yalu River and evacuates more than 40,000 people from Dandong over fears of flooding amid unprecedented levels of rainfall.[83][84]
August 7 – At least 16 miners are killed during a fire at a gold mine in Zhaoyuan, Shandong, in China. 23 others are still trapped inside.[85]
October 9 - Chinese basketball team withdrew from 2010 Asian university basketball championship due to ROC flag used instead of Chinese Taipei flag.[95][96]
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