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Heavy snow and poor visibility have caused schedule disruptions at the Beijing Winter Olympics. With an average snowfall of 4mm (0.16in) recorded on February 13, 2022, several ski slopestyle events had to be postponed. Authorities worked to clear snow and ice from key transport routes to competition venues. Ironical…
As the 2022 Winter Olympics continue in Beijing, participation in ice and snow activities has been booming across China. The number of tourists joining winter sports activities during the current season is projected to reach 300.5 million, generating revenues of about 323 billion yuan (US$50.8 billion). China has be…
Described as airborne hospitals, China’s helicopter ambulance service has been put into action to handle an emergency rescue during the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Games. China set up the emergency medical transport system to quickly get help to injured or sick competitors during the Games. On February 7, 2022, the …
Truckers opposed to Canada’s vaccination requirements have gridlocked the nation’s capital of Ottawa for 11 days, in what started as a protest against vaccine mandates for cross-border drivers on January 28, 2022. The so-called “freedom convoy” consisting of trucks and other vehicles that have been moved into the ci…
The city of Baise in southwestern China has put 3.6 million residents under strict lockdown as mass testing was conducted for more than 207,000 people in the community in Debao county where the first infected patient lives. The city in China’s Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region reported 72 of the total 73 cases confir…
On January 29, 2022, China marked more than 50,000 freight train trips between China and Europe since the first Europe-bound train left the southwestern Chinese city of Chongqing in 2011. The railway is central to the Belt and Road Initiative, connecting China to 180 cities in 23 European countries. The freight trad…
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Covid-19 has sent Sri Lanka into an economic tailspin, drying up earnings from tourism and foreign remittances. The island nation of 22 million is now on the brink of bankruptcy. Inflation is red hot and supermarket shelves are bare of supplies while restaurants are unable to serve meals. The government has brought …
The women and children of New Delhi's G.B. Road are afraid to tell others where they are from. They live in the Indian capital’s biggest red-light district. The mothers are sex workers. Many say they were trafficked and forced into the sex trade with no way to escape. Out of fear of being shunned by society, the chi…
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A motorist took a police officer for a ride he didn’t expect in eastern China’s Jiangxi province, as the driver tried to escape from a check.
Ahead of the Beijing Winter Olympics, the Chinese capital has been enveloped in thick smog. Concentrations of the hazardous airborne particle PM2.5 were measured at 205 micrograms per cubic metre on January 24. This exceeds the recommended levels of no more than 5 by the World Health Organization. But Beijing and it…
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Typically the world's largest annual human migration, China’s Lunar New Year holiday is expecting traffic to be well below pre-pandemic numbers. Chinese residents made 3 billion trips around the Spring Festival season in 2019.Travellers are expected to make an estimated 1.18 billion trips over the 40-day period, a 3…
People at a camp for internally displaced persons (IDP) in northwestern Syria have been digging out after snowstorms hit the area. Some of the tents at the camp had reportedly collapsed trapping children inside after the heavy snow on January 19, 2021. Many are reportedly now without water or shelter at the camp in …
China plans to extend the length of its high-speed railway network to 50,000km (31,070 miles) by 2025. The network was 38,000km (23,612 miles) long as of \the end of 2020. The expansion of the world’s largest high-speed railway exceeds the combined length of the next five countries on the list: Spain, Japan, France,…
It’s a week so hellish that even the so-called “road to heaven” is paved with blood, bruises and plenty of sharp rocks. This is the Taiwanese navy’s 10-week course for its elite Amphibious Reconnaissance and Patrol unit, their equivalent of the US Navy Seals. Special forces hopefuls have to endure hours of marches, …
Two women tried to occupy an empty parking space for their friend who was on the way to the car park. A driver then pushed the women away with his car and forced his way to the same parking spot in eastern China’s Jiangsu province.
An impromptu fireworks display was seen in southern China’s Hunan province after a transport truck was involved in a collision. The crash ignited the fireworks, resulting in a dazzling display. Luckily, no one was injured.
Over 5 million residents of the Chinese city of Anyang have been placed under lockdown to fight the spread of Covid-19. The measures were taken after two cases involving the Omicron variant were confirmed on January 10, 2022. Residents of the city in China’s central province of Henan were ordered to stay home and tr…
A delivery worker had a narrow escape as the driver of a Porsche lost control of her vehicle before it mounted the pavement outside a market in Hong Kong’s northern Yuen Long district on January 12. The driver and six other people were injured. Dashcam footage shared online showed the sports car stopping outside Hop…
Hong Kong police arrested 10 people and impounded nine luxury sports cars on January 2, 2022, after they were seen allegedly racing along the Fanling Highway in a dash cam video posted online. The high-end supercars included a McLaren, four Lamborghinis, a Ferrari and a Porsche. Eight men were charged with taking pa…
China’s Foreign Ministry said “the Chinese will always stand by the people of Kazakhstan”, according to a January 12, 2022, statement from ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin. Referencing a recent phone conversation between China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi and his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov, the spokesman said “mo…
These goldfish can navigate on land. Researchers in Israel gave each animal about 10 driving lessons, teaching them to steer the fish tank on wheels to a target location. Luckily, the goldfish have no need for speed.
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Russian-led forces will begin withdrawing from Kazakhstan, according to the country’s president. Kassym-Jomart Tokayev initially requested support from the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) to help quash protests that erupted across the Central Asian nation. The move sparked alarm from Western observers…
Dozens of ostriches were seen running on main roads after fleeing from a local farm in southern China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. About 100 ostriches have escaped and around 30 of them are still missing, according to the owner.
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China will open an additional 3,300km (2,050 miles) of railway lines in 2022 as the country continues to expand its freight and passenger rail networks. The new lines are seen as critical components of the Belt and Road Initiative and an alternative to diplomatically tense shipping lanes that are prone to delays and…
BMW unveiled a new colour-changing concept car during the CES gadget exhibition in Las Vegas on January 5-7, 2022. The BMW iX Flow car uses “E Ink” technology to allow the car’s exterior to be transformed into a variety of colours and patterns. CES, formerly known as The International Consumer Electronics Show, is a…
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi made a three-nation tour of East Africa as Beijing looks to deepen ties with its allies in the Horn of Africa. Wang visited China’s new belt and road partner nation Eritrea, as well as Kenya and the Comoros from January 4-7, 2022. China has proposed to appoint a special envoy to faci…
Protests against the government of Kazakhstan have turned deadly as dozens were reportedly killed in a night of fires and clashes between protesters and security forces on January 5, 2022. The unrest began on January 2, when demonstrators took to the streets protesting against soaring fuel prices. The demonstrations…
A transport truck hung off a cliff edge for 3 days in central China’s Shanxi province. The truck slid partly off the cliff when the driver attempted to reverse it on the narrow road.
Chaos gripped Kazakhstan this week as protests broke out throughout the central Asian nation over fuel prices. The country’s government resigned on January 5, 2022, and President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev named a new acting prime minister. But the cabinet’s resignation did little to calm the anger over fuel price hikes …
China ordered a lockdown of the city of Yuzhou in the central province of Henan on January 3, 2022, after the discovery of just three coronavirus cases on January 2-3. Yuzhou’s 1.1 million residents were ordered to remain indoors and public transport was suspended. As of January 4, over 950,000 people had been teste…
Hundreds of motorists were trapped on Interstate 95, a major highway, in northern Virginia on January 3, 2021. Many were stranded for more than 12 hours, sharing food and water with other drivers and had only their car engines to keep warm.
At least 22 people were injured by a magnitude 5.5 earthquake that struck the city of Lijiang, in China’s southwestern province of Yunnan, on January 2, 2022. The shallow quake damaged homes, roads and water lines in the area. Search and rescue crews were called out to help people in the affected areas, but there we…
The Omicron coronavirus variant has driven Covid-19 daily case figures to record high levels in the United States and several European countries. The US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention reported more than 440,000 infections on December 27, 2021 – the highest daily number yet during the pandemic. France, It…
A new bridge officially opened to traffic between two islands of China’s eastern province of Zhejiang on December 29, 2021. The 25km (16-mile) span is the first permanent sea-crossing linking Zhoushan and Daishan islands. About 400,000 tonnes of steel was used to build the Zhoushan-Daishan Bridge over about four yea…
China’s northwestern city of Xian has conducted a mass disinfection operation and more rounds of coronavirus testing as Covid-19 cases continue to surge. Live-streamed video showed people in full protective gear spraying disinfectant on public roads, in the underground rail system, entrances to government buildings …
Areas of Japan’s southern-central region including Hyogo and Shiga prefectures were hit with record snowfalls on December 27, 2021. The previous day, the nation’s transport system was disrupted by severe weather that grounded more than 100 domestic flights. Japan’s Meteorological Agency has urged people to refrain f…
Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Nobel laureate, human rights activist and a driving force behind South Africa’s anti-apartheid movement, died on December 26, 2021, at the age of 90. Tutu is known for the compassion, integrity and humour he showed during his decades-long non-violent struggle against apartheid – which he was…
Chinese search engine giant Baidu will launch the country's first metaverse platform. Xi Rang, which means "land of hope" in English, can be accessed via smartphones, computers or VR goggles, allowing users to create avatars and interact with other players. Baidu says it aims to develop Xi Rang into an infrastructur…
The world's first bus-train is set to debut in Kaiyo, Japan on December 25. With an extra set of wheels for train tracks, the dual-mode vehicle can run on road and rail.
It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas in the Philippines. From Santa Claus traffic officers to Christmas displays, people are getting into the spirit of the season. However, the threat of COVID-19 remains as the country recorded its third case of the Omicron variant on December 20, 2021.
A car was sent flying after clipping an open manhole in southwestern China’s Sichuan province. It then careened wildly into a utility pole. No one was injured in the incident.
As one of the world’s largest plastic polluters, Indonesia is playing an active role in global efforts to tackle plastic waste. One local cement maker, Solusi Bangun Indonesia (SBI), is ramping up the use of refuse-derived fuel (RDF), which comes from plastic waste taken from the country’s landfills. Multinationals …
