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A group of Chinese maintenance workers are tasked with ensuring the highway that connects Beijing with the city of Urumqi in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region remains free of sand. Located at the junction of two deserts and buffeted by high winds, the road is often covered in sand blown by strong winds. To furthe…
Hospitals in India are struggling to find enough oxygen supplies for their Covid-19 patients as cases continue to surge across the country. Express trains carrying tonnes of oxygen arrived in New Delhi on May 4, 2021, as part of a government effort to move surplus supplies from eastern India to hard-hit northern and…
Funeral service providers are being overwhelmed by Covid-19 victims as a surge in new cases sweeps across India. Hospitals are struggling to handle the new coronavirus infections, and many families of those who have died are turning to makeshift facilities for burials and cremations. In the capital New Delhi, funera…
A male wild tiger was found in a village in northeastern China’s Heilongjiang province. It was filmed walking in a farm and knocking down a woman, who was saved by a passing motorist. The tiger was later caught and taken to a local tiger zoo for check-ups.
Elderly people in central China’s Henan province were filmed standing in the middle of the road to stop a wedding car, demanding for free cigarettes and money. The local authorities have been educating residents not to force couples for free gifts, but that has not stopped elderly people from blocking wedding cars.
Indonesia has been racing to find one of its submarines that went missing during a training exercise on April 21, 2021. Oxygen in the KRI Nanggala 402, which was carrying 53 people on board, is expected to run out on Saturday. Officials have reported an oil slick and the smell of diesel fuel near the submarine’s div…
A car bomb blast at a luxury hotel in the southwestern Pakistani city of Quetta killed at least four people and wounded 11 on April 21, 2021. China’s ambassador to Pakistan, Nong Rong, was staying at the Serena Hotel but was not in the building at the time of the blast. The Pakistani Taliban has claimed responsibili…
Hong Kong not only has a reputation for having the world’s least-affordable housing market. Just finding a place to park a car can be an expensive endeavour because of the city’s limited land supply. In 2020, the average transaction price for a Hong Kong car park space was about HK$2.14 million (US$275,700), accordi…
Activist Neola Pereira has been inspiring other young people to join her fight to save Mollem National Park in India’s Goa state. The group has been campaigning for months against a government plan to expand a train line that snakes through the park. Activists fear that work to expand the rail infrastructure signals…
Three manhole covers were sent flying into the air as workers painted a road in southern China’s Guangdong province.
A man tried to escape from a bus through the window, after allegedly sexually assaulting a woman passenger. A passer-by outside the bus saw the commotion and helped push the man back into the vehicle. That, and more trending videos from China this week.
Kyaw Zwar Minn, Myanmar’s ousted ambassador to the UK, appealed to the British government for help as he faced eviction from his London residence. The 62-year-old had to spend a night in his car last week after Myanmar’s military attaché locked him out of the embassy. He said members of his former staff delivered a …
A driver reversed her car through guardrails in southern China’s Guangxi province, leaving the car dangling off a curb several metres off the ground.
A Shanghai driving school in China has “hired” artificial-intelligence coaches to teach student drivers how to get behind the wheel. Equipped with high-precision GPS trackers and radars, the AI coaches in the cars can detect obstacles and the real-time position of the vehicles, according to state media. The robotic …
A bus driver in southwestern China’s Sichuan province rescued a woman dragged by a three-wheeler along a road. The woman was hit by the three-wheeler when she crossed a road. When she argued with the driver, the driver drove off while the woman grabbed onto the vehicle.
Taiwan unveiled its first modern amphibious assault and transport vessel on April 13, 2021. The Yushan, a landing platform dock named after the island’s highest mountain, is equipped with anti-aircraft missiles and other weapons. It will be used for missions to Taipei-controlled islets in the South China Sea.
A girl was filmed being dragged along a road for 24 seconds after her leg was trapped in the door of a bus in southern China’s Guangdong province.
A team of Japanese researchers say they have found a way to convert plastic waste into liquid fuel. The scientists used a catalyst, by combining the metal, ruthenium with cerium dioxide, to break down the plastic under intense heat. Researchers claim that as much as 77 per cent of the plastic waste will be converted…
A driver in southern China’s Guangxi province was filmed attacking another car after the other vehicle’s driver honked the car’s horn at him.
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A driver in eastern China’s Anhui province driving a bus full of passengers managed to pull over safely just before he fainted at the wheel.
Hong Kong police shot a driver in the shoulder in Sha Tin on April 8, 2021, after failing to stop a speeding vehicle with an expired licence. The 5km (3.1 mile) car chase left three people injured after the driver sped off, zigzagging along roads and later driving in the opposite direction of traffic. The vehicle al…
Hong Kong police shot a driver in the shoulder in Sha Tin on April 8, 2021, ending a 5km (3.1 miles) wild car chase that left three people injured. The driver was sent to hospital for treatment. Police ordered the suspect to stop after finding his vehicle licence expired since 2015. But the driver sped off, zigzaggi…
A man in eastern China’s Shandong province tried to escape from a bus through the window, after allegedly sexually assaulting a woman passenger. A passer-by outside the bus saw the commotion and helped push the man back into the vehicle. The man was detained for 10 days.
Tired of endless nitpicking from her husband of 30 years, a grandmother from central China’s Henan province left home in September 2020 for a road trip across the country. Su Min, 57, is live-streaming her journey of self-discovery, having decided to live for herself for the first time in her life.
Taiwan’s government on April 6, 2021, released dramatic footage of a deadly train crash which killed 50 people. A packed train carrying almost 500 passengers and crew slammed into a truck near the eastern city of Hualien on April 2, causing it to derail and the front and middle parts to crumple. The government said …
Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen travelled to Hualien on April 3, 2021, to the site of a deadly train crash that killed 50 people and injured 200 others. The April 2 tragedy happened when a truck rolled down a hill and collided with the express train. The truck driver appeared before the Hualien prosecutor’s office aft…
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One police officer was killed and another was injured after a vehicular attack on US Capitol grounds in Washington on April 2, 2021. The suspect, who exited the vehicle brandishing a knife and lunged at the officers, was fatally shot by police, acting Capitol Police chief Yogananda Pittman said.
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A South Korean professor built an autonomous vehicle and test-drove it across the country in the 1990s. Han Min-hong came up with his invention years before self-driving cars became a multibillion-dollar industry. His vehicle drove itself 300km (186 miles) all the way from Seoul to the southern port of Busan in 1995…
Hong Kong’s iconic clock tower in Tsim Sha Tsui celebrates its centenary in March 2021. The 44-metre-tall (144ft) tower was built in 1915 as part of the now-demolished Kowloon-Canton Railway station. Despite sustaining some battle damage, the building survived the Japanese invasion of Hong Kong during World War II. …
Salvage teams have managed to free the MV Ever Given container ship that had clogged Egypt's Suez Canal for nearly a week. Shipping was seen on the move again on March 29, 2021, in one of the world's most vital maritime waterways.
The giant container ship MV Ever Given was partially refloated in the early morning on March 29, 2021, after becoming lodged diagonally across Egypt’s Suez Canal six days ago. The 400-metre-long vessel halted traffic on the shortest shipping route between Europe and Asia. An estimated US$9.6 billion worth of trade a…
At least 20 people were injured in a suicide bombing at an Indonesian Catholic cathedral on March 28, 2021. The blast in the city of Makassar, in South Sulawesi, is believed to be carried out by two members of the pro-Islamic State extremist group Jamaah Ansharut Daulah (JAD). Police say both of the bombing suspects…
It took 10 years in the 19th century to build the world’s fastest sea route between Asia and Europe: the Suez Canal. These days, over 50 vessels carrying everything, from essential oil products to finished goods, pass through the Egyptian waterway each day. On March 24, 2021, the canal came under the spotlight after…
Xpeng, a leading Chinese smart electric vehicle (EV) company, said on Friday that its P7 mid-size car, guided by its Navigation Guided Pilot function, a newly released feature, had “set some of the most successful records to date over long distances in real road conditions in China”. A fleet of the battery-powered c…
A campaign is underway in China to control the population of red imported fire ants, one of the world’s most hazardous invasive species. Nine government departments, covering the agriculture, forestry, customs, housing, transport, water resources, railway, postal services and health sectors, have joined forces to ta…
Recovery efforts continued in Egypt’s Suez Canal on March 24, 2021, a day after the 200,000 tonne MV Ever Given container ship became stuck in the waterway. Footage released by the Suez Canal Authority showed tugboats trying to nudge the ship away from the sides of the channel. The ship was bound for the Netherlands…
A massive container ship ran aground in Egypt’s Suez Canal and blocked all marine traffic, officials said on March 24, 2021. The 200,000 tonne MV Ever Given became stuck in the man-made waterway dividing continental Africa from the Sinai Peninsula a day earlier. The Evergreen Marine Corporation, the company that ope…
Tesla faces a new foe as Baidu enters the fray for electric carsThe search engine giant is teaming up with carmaker Geely to design and make smart electric vehicles, joining a crowded field of partnerships racing to challenge the dominance of Tesla.
Two major railway tracks were joined overnight, thanks to the efforts of more than 1,000 construction workers at Linghai South Station in northeast China on March 17, 2021. Within six hours, workers from the China Railway Shenyang Bureau managed to connect the tracks, reinstall signal lights and adjust overhead line…
A man smashed a glass bottle on a bus driver’s head after having an argument with him in eastern China’s Jiangsu province.
Chinese aviation authorities have announced plans to add 30 new airports to the nation’s civilian aviation network over the next five years. The plan announced at a press conference on March 15, 2021, is part of the country’s quest to boost high-quality civil aviation development during the latest five-year plan per…
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A motorcyclist in southwestern China’s Yunnan province was filmed smashing a car after he was given a scare by its horn. He forced the car to stop and drove to its side to smash the windows and break its side-view mirror.
A couple who works as medical workers and were off-duty resuscitated a man who suddenly collapsed on a road in northwestern China’s Gansu province. The husband pulled over and the wife, a nurse by profession, rushed to perform CPR and saved the man.
