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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 …
China’s “Xingguo” magnetic levitation sky train rolled off the assembly line on December 14, 2021, in the central city of Wuhan. Also known as maglev, magnetic levitation is a transport system that suspends, guides and propels vehicles. It’s reportedly the first time that permanent maglev technology has ever been ap…
Some women in Iran have been riding and performing stunts on motorcycles, despite a ban that prohibits them from getting a motorcycle licence and thus from lawfully driving the vehicles. They hope that conservative authorities will drop the ban and allow them to drive motorcycles legally.
Mainland China started supplying the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region with carbon-neutral natural gas on December 19, 2021. The greenhouse gases released to produce and transport the energy were offset from buying carbon credits. Hong Kong has set a target of cutting its carbon emissions by 26-36 per cent by …
A driver escaped from a burning Porsche car at a gas station in southern China’s Shenzhen city. The vehicle was set on fire by a stranger when it was being refuelled.
The journey of a video game controller from a Chinese factory to a store shelf in the United States is now more expensive than ever. Transport and shipping costs have skyrocketed due to a global breakdown of supply chains brought on by the Covid-19 pandemic, leaving manufacturers and retailers scrambling to stock th…
This electric scooter can fit into a medium-sized backpack when deflated. Developed by University of Tokyo researchers, the vehicle inflates in 2 minutes and can run for 90 minutes at 15km/h (9.3mph).
Teen aviator Zara Rutherford was greeted with bubble tea soon after landing in Taiwan, as part of her latest stop in her journey around the world. The 19-year-old British-Belgian is working her way towards becoming the world’s youngest woman to fly around the globe solo. In her 325kg (717lbs) Shark UL prop plane, Ru…
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A woman was dragged for dozens of metres behind a scooter on a bridge after getting into an argument about a traffic accident with the rider of a scooter in southern China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region.
China reported its second imported Covid-19 case involving the Omicron variant on December 14, 2021, in the southern city of Guangzhou. The country was already tightening measures to stop the spread of the coronavirus while battling outbreaks linked to the Delta strain in several provinces. Beijing has been using a …
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A woman driving an off-road vehicle at a beach in central China’s Hubei province failed to stop it in time, crashing it into two people. They suffered minor leg injuries.
A group of urban management officers in eastern China’s Jiangsu province was seen confiscating an elderly street vendor’s sugar cane, leaving him crying in the middle of the road. They also seized sugar cane from another vendor in the same district.
Pakistan’s Karot Hydropower Station has begun storing water since construction started six years ago, helping to cut the country's carbon emissions by 3.2 million tonnes every year. Sitting along the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), the project is the first to be financed by the Silk Road Fund, which is part…
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Driven by the Covid-19 pandemic and other factors, rising inflation has emerged as a problem around the world including in Hong Kong. The city’s consumer price index posted a year-on-year increase of 1.7 per cent in October, 2021, making life of underprivileged residents even harder. Among those bearing the brunt of…
Two brave passers-by rescued a driver trapped in a burning truck by smashing the windscreen with a rock. The truck crashed with a SUV and then burst into flames at an intersection in eastern China’s Zhejiang province.
Haihai, five, was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukaemia when he was just a year old. Since falling sick, he has learnt to be independent, using chopsticks like a pro by the age of two. We shared the story of his cancer ordeal in 2019. Now, he is on the road to recovery. That, and more trending videos from Chi…
Clean beaches and previously dwindling wildlife populations are returning to Boracay, an ‘island paradise’ of the Philippines. As the country continues to be closed off from international tourists due to the pandemic, the island is starting to recover from earlier environmental impacts of over-tourism, including gar…
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A pair of carriage doors came off and fell onto the tracks as a train approached Hong Kong’s Causeway Bay station on December 2, 2021. MTR service on the Hong Kong Island line was subsequently suspended between Wan Chai and Quarry Bay at the height of rush hour. Long queues formed at nearby bus stations as stranded …
Final touches were being put on the China-Laos railway on the eve of its December 3, 2021, opening. Laotian President Thongloun Sisoulith will be joined virtually by his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping for the opening ceremony which will also mark the 60th anniversary of diplomatic relations between the two countries…
After being hidden away for half a century, Iran’s luxurious royal racers have been put on display at the Iran Historical Car Museum. Thousands of people have been flocking to the exhibit since its recent opening to enjoy the fancy vintage cars once owned by the nation’s royal family. The vehicles, including some th…
An antibody treatment for Covid-19 that reportedly cuts hospitalisations and deaths by 78 per cent in clinical trials is expected to be approved for use in China within weeks. Chinese viral immunologist Zhang Linqi is the driving force behind the antiviral cocktail which was put together in about two months. But in …
Hong Kong police have arrested a man who appeared to randomly shove a woman off a Light Rail station platform onto the track. The incident occurred in the afternoon on November 28, 2021, at the end of the platform at Tai Hing (North) station in Tuen Mun in the New Territories area of Hong Kong.
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Egypt officially opened a road lined with hundreds of 3,000-year-old sphinx statues in an evening ceremony at Karnak Temple in Luxor on November 25, 2021. The nearly 3km (1.86 miles) ancient road, which took decades to excavate, will help improve access between the temples of Karnak and Luxor.
Haihai, five, was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukaemia when he was just a year old. Since falling sick, he has learnt to be independent, using chopsticks like a pro by the age of two. We shared the story of his cancer ordeal in 2019. Now, he is on the road to recovery.
A group of Vietnamese migrant workers recruited to build a Chinese-owned car tyre factory in Serbia has accused their employer of ill treatment. Said to be the first Chinese car tyre factory in Europe, Shandong Linglong Tire Co set up shop in northern Serbia where it’s being touted as the largest foreign investment …
Kabul is preparing for a harsh winter amid soaring coal prices that have risen partly due to higher transportations costs. Coal remains the main source of fuel and heat in Afghanistan, where the price increases have left many poor families struggling to heat their homes through the winter months and even as coal wor…
Traffic on a bridge in central China’s Henan province came to a standstill after a group of people flocked to watch live-streamers dancing and singing.
A Hong Kong travel agency has rolled out a five-hour bus ride designed to help restless residents snooze on board. Organisers of the 83km (52 mile) tour were inspired by the common sight of tired commuters who fall asleep while taking public transport in the city. The trips start in Hong Kong’s western district of T…
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At least five people have died and more than 40 were injured after an SUV sped through a Christmas parade in the US city of Waukesha in Wisconsin. The incident, which happened on November 21, 2021, is still under investigation but local police said a “person of interest” was in custody. No details have yet been disc…
More than 500,000 students across South Korea took the high-pressured university entrance exam on November 18, 2021. For many students, the Suneung exam results will dictate their future lives, affecting not only their options for university and jobs, but also their future relationships. A recent surge in Covid-19 c…
Millions of flame red crabs flooded Western Australia’s Christmas Island at the start of their annual migration. As the crabs left their homes to make their way to the ocean to breed, roads on the island were closed to ensure a safe journey. A crab bridge was specially built to help the creatures cross safely on wid…
Guanyu Zhou became China’s first Formula 1 driver, after signing with Alfa Romeo on November 17, 2021. The 22-year-old from Shanghai is the first Chinese national to join the exclusive list competing in the elite motor racing championship.
A suspected triad gang member has been arrested for allegedly reversing his car into a Hong Kong police officer’s motorcycle and then speeding away on November 14, 2021. Dashcam video from another car showed the collision in Kowloon Bay at around 11pm, moments after the officer had dismounted and approached the susp…
New Delhi’s air quality hit more than 16 times higher than the daily safe limit set by the World Health Organization on November 10, 2021. Every winter, tens of thousands of farmers in states bordering Delhi flout laws to clear their fields by burning leftover straw to make way for new crops, a process otherwise kno…
Big data algorithms on food delivery apps are reportedly pushing China’s delivery drivers to the edge by allocating them shorter delivery time, effectively encouraging dangerous driving. After years of unrestricted growth and soaring demand during the Covid-19 pandemic, food delivery companies now face scrutiny over…
