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A dog owner in southwestern China’s Sichuan province put his dog on the roof of his car and drove down a busy road. He said that there was no space for the animal in the vehicle.
A police officer in China’s Shanghai stopped an out-of-control car after the driver had been thrown out of the vehicle.
A Myanmar government health worker was injured and his driver killed when their United Nations vehicle was ambushed as they were transporting Covid-19 test samples in Myanmar’s Rakhine state. The area has been in a civil war between the Myanmar military and insurgents for months.
In southern China’s Guangdong province, a woman was filmed pushing a stroller with a baby inside while walking against the flow of traffic in a tunnel. A quick-thinking driver put on the brakes in the nick of time to avoid hitting them.
The novel coronavirus that causes Covid-19 was first detected in Wuhan, China in late 2019, and took only a few months to spread into a global pandemic. Health experts say modern advanced transport including air travel has greatly increased the pace of the pandemic. Though governments around the world imposed lockdo…
Construction is under way on a part bridge, part tunnel transport link that will stretch for 24km (15 miles) connecting the Chinese mainland cities of Shenzhen and Zhongshan in the Pearl River Delta. On April 12, 2020, workers submerged the first section of what is expected to be one of the world’s widest undersea t…
A driver in China got a nasty surprise when he found a snake on his windscreen, and more trending videos from China this week.
An owner of a local car museum in Hyderabad, India has constructed a coronavirus-shaped vehicle to remind people to stay home during a nationwide lockdown.
India normally is home to some of the world’s most polluted cities, but a nationwide coronavirus lockdown has restored blue skies and cleaner air to many parts of the country. The lockdown starting March 25, 2020, has closed factories and kept cars off the roads leading to dramatic reductions in air pollution. Envir…
A man in China’s Xinjiang was filmed driving his car onto a pedestrian overpass to make a U-turn on a motorway. He said that he had missed his exit.
Each weekend, Hong Kong’s Central district normally is crowded with hundreds of thousands of domestic helpers who gather there on their days off. But as the city tries to control the spread of the deadly coronavirus that causes Covid-19, new government rules ban gatherings of more than four people in public places, …
A driver in southwestern China’s Sichuan province was crossing a bridge when he spotted a snake slithering up his windscreen.
A month-long lockdown to combat the spread of the coronavirus that causes Covid-19 has emptied the normally bustling streets of Metro Manila. The Philippine capital and surrounding areas have been sealed off since March 15, 2020, after authorities suspended all domestic land, sea and air traffic.
Los Angeles’ efforts to fight the coronavirus has had a visible impact on one of the city’s most defining features – its endless traffic has disappeared. Since officials urged residents to stay home and ordered non-essential businesses and schools to close in mid-March, the city's motorways have cleared up, leading …
A father in eastern China’s Zhejiang province narrowly prevented his son from being run over by a car. As they were walking across a zebra crossing, an oncoming car failed to stop, and it was only the man’s quick reflexes that saved his child from serious injury.
"Stay at home or stay inside" is the message fixed to coffins and skulls displayed on public roads in the Philippines. Authorities in Santo Tomas, north of Manila, are using the grim method to remind people about the consequences of ignoring home-quarantine orders put in place to fight the spread of the deadly coron…
With business and factories reopening, China is gradually getting back on track after being hard hit by the coronavirus outbreak, which was first discovered in Wuhan, Hubei province, in December 2019. After months under lockdowns, communities are going back to their daily routines as restaurants and shops reopen for…
Medical engineers in Mexico have developed a special isolation pod to transport coronavirus patients without putting frontline responders at risk.
A public transport company in Shanghai has deployed ultraviolet (UV) light units to disinfect public buses using less time and manpower. Officials from China’s National Health Commission point out that the coronavirus that causes Covid-19 is sensitive to ultraviolet light and heat. The World Health Organisation, how…
From dancing in the streets to dancing in hospitals, from a key transport interchange to a virtual ghost town, the Chinese city of Wuhan has gone through some dramatic changes since early January 2020. The vibrant industrial and transport hub has been in lockdown for nearly two months since it became the epicentre o…
Bangkok’s train operator, BTS SkyTrain, has released a video featuring a Covid-19 safety song. In the video published on March 5, 2020, BTS staff are featured dancing to an upbeat tune which the company hopes can educate commuters about ways to keep themselves free from infection.
Hundreds of Hongkongers gathered in Tseung Kwan O, Hong Kong on March 8, 2020, to pay tribute to Chow Tsz-lok, a second-year computer science student at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, who died of a severe brain injury suffered in a one-storey fall in a car park in November last year.
A handful of Wuhan residents have started to return home in early March 2020 after they were caught outside the central Chinese city as it went into lockdown to contain the spread of the coronavirus. The lockdown in effect since January 23, 2020, has severely restricted travel, but some are taking advantage of the f…
Taxi and railway services in Taiwan have been stepping up on their disinfection efforts to contain the spread of Covid-19, the deadly disease caused by the novel coronavirus.
China may have seen its first decline in carbon emissions in three years amid lockdowns of major cities that have closed factories and transport systems around the country to fight the spread of the deadly coronavirus. The US space agency Nasa recently released satellite images that show a drastic reduction in air p…
Hong Kong’s flagship airline Cathay Pacific Airways is scrambling to ride out a financial storm caused by the coronavirus outbreak, coming right on the heels of months of anti-government protests in its home city as well as the US-China trade war. As the region tries to prevent the spread of the virus that causes th…
A woman from central China’s Hubei province was caught hiding in a car boot, in an attempt to sneak into Shanghai. She visited her hometown, the epicentre of the coronavirus outbreak, during the Lunar New Year holidays before this trip.
The city’s rail operator MTR Corporation is set to debut its long-awaited Tuen Ma Line Phase 1 on February 14, 2020. Three new stations will be opened: Hin Keng, Kai Tak and the expanded part of Diamond Hill station, which would connect Kowloon East and the northeast New Territories of Hong Kong.
China has been blasting disinfectant across wide areas of the city of Wuhan, the epicentre of the coronavirus outbreak. Roads, quarantine zones, residential areas, supermarkets, and garbage stations are among the places where huge volumes of sterilising spray is being used, sometimes twice a day.
Shenzhen Bay is among only three border crossings connecting Hong Kong and the Chinese mainland that remain open as the city imposes measures to contain the spread of the coronavirus. The port has seen a rush of cross-border traffic as thousands of people try to enter Hong Kong before midnight February 8, 2020, when…
A woman used a remote control car to buy steamed buns amid the coronavirus outbreak in eastern China’s Shandong province. She has stayed at home for over 19 days and doesn’t dare to venture outdoors. So she came up with the idea of using a remote control car to help her get some food.
A Chinese driver in Dongguan, a city in the southern province of Guangdong, wore 12 face masks amid the coronavirus outbreak.
In the central China city of Wuhan, the epicentre of the coronavirus outbreak, people are hoarding food supplies fearing a government-ordered lockdown will last for months as the virus continues to spread. The suspension of transport links has delayed food delivery to the city. China has vowed to maintain food suppl…
A hospital in Port Macquarie, New South Wales, Australia is at the centre of efforts to preserve koalas as prolonged drought, intense heat and strong winds continue to fuel bush fires that started in September 2019.
New World expands its land bank in China’s Greater Bay AreaIn a filing to the Hong Kong stock exchange on Tuesday, New World said it has entered an agreement with Guangzhou Metro Corporation to buy a 65 per cent stake in a key site above a rail station
International corporations including Starbucks, Shanghai Disneyland, Google, several airlines and car companies have been shutting down their operations across China due to the deadly coronavirus outbreak. The World Health Organisation declared it a global health emergency on January 30, 2020.
A toll booth worker in eastern China’s Zhejiang province was filmed being scolded by a driver to the point of tears. She then had to force herself to smile as she turned to serve other drivers.
During the first two days of the Lunar New Year, Mong Kok was the scene of skirmishes between riot police and anti-government protesters. Sunday evening January 26, 2020, started off with people enjoying the New Year food stalls, but after protesters blocked roads the riot police arrived on the scene. The police use…
Medical workers in Wuhan’s Jinyintan hospital are putting in long gruelling shifts and battling their own fears to combat a coronavirus outbreak. China has suspended all transport in and out of Wuhan, the epicentre of the outbreak. As of January 23, at least 17 people had died of coronavirus, and more than 600 infec…
The annual massive travel rush for the Lunar New Year is underway in China. The 40-day travel rush, also known as chunyun, is the largest annual human migration in the world. Hundreds of millions of people will travel across the country for family reunions and around 3 billion trips will be made before and after the…
With the Lunar New Year just days away, holiday activities and celebrations are getting underway in cities across China. People reuniting with families and friends will make about 3 billion trips by road, air and rail during what is also known as the Spring Festival in China. The highlight of the festivities will be…
Young people have been in the spotlight in Hong Kong as well as Taiwan in recent months, as political uncertainty in each area raises questions about their prospects for the future. As the South China Morning Post’s Luisa Tam points out, governments in both jurisdictions need to urgently look at ways to harness the …
A Filipino couple has decided to go ahead with their marriage celebration in Cavite, Philippines, even though a smoking Taal volcano could be seen in the background of their wedding photos. The eruption continued to cause transport chaos in the area, including at the international airport serving the Philippine capi…
Soldiers stationed in Tibet are sharpening their driving skills, and more viral stories from China this week.
A driver in eastern China’s Zhejiang province was filmed ramming into a car blocking her way out of a carpark 11 times. She had left messages to ask the owner to move the car but no one showed up, Chinese media said.
More than 1,500 people in Dhaka, Bangladesh’s capital, marched and disrupted traffic on main roads after a second-year university student was raped on January 5. Protesters demanded the rapist’s arrest within 24 hours and urged the death penalty for convicted rapists.
Chinese soldiers stationed in Tibet are receiving special training to sharpen their driving skills so they can handle complicated road conditions in the area, according to state media reports.
A man was filmed kicking a coach driver in eastern China’s Jiangsu province. He said he was in a bad mood after failing to find a job.
An eco-lodge operator on Australia’s Christmas Island invented attachments for cars that can gently sweep aside red crabs as they swarmed across roads during their annual migration.
Stocks on Chinese mainland markets can expect a strong year in 2020 thanks to government policy support, says analyst Kenny Wen. The wealth management strategist at Everbright Sun Hung Kai said investors should look at 5G infrastructure, domestic consumption and property management stocks in the new year. Wan advise…
