Chinese officials have reposted a video calling on Japan to be relentlessly nuked if it intervenes militarily in Taiwan. The footage – originally created by a military comment channel on Xigua, China‘s equivalent of YouTube – calls for Japan to be bombed into submission if it sends ‘even one troop’ into Taiwan. It was first posted … Read more
Father is reunited with son who was abducted 24 YEARS ago aged two after travelling more than 300,000 miles around China searching for him Guo Gangtang’s son was abducted outside his home in Shandong in 1997 The two-year-old was sold into adoption and grew up in Henan province Mr Guo spent his life savings and … Read more
Victoria Beckham stuns in £1,350 goldfish motif dress from her own collection during Paris trip… which she says is a symbol of ‘wealth and good luck’ By Andrew Bullock For Mailonline Published: 10:16 BST, 12 July 2021 | Updated: 16:42 BST, 12 July 2021 Victoria Beckham was sending good vibes from Paris on Sunday afternoon … Read more
Giant pandas are NO LONGER endangered, Chinese officials declare after success of conservation efforts Giant pandas removed from China’s ‘critically endangered’ species list Comes after their population in the wild increased to 1,800 animals China says success is largely down to increasing the size of bamboo forests However, pandas remain ‘vulnerable’ and conservation efforts will … Read more
Earth is losing enough ice to cover the whole of Lake Superior – 33,000 square miles – every YEAR because of climate change, scientists warn Earth has lost approximately 33,000 square miles of ice every year from 1979 until 2016 Earth’s collective ice, the cryosphere, holds almost three-quarters of the planet’s fresh water It is … Read more
Chinese astronauts have performed the country’s first ‘tandem spacewalk’ that involved them working for seven hours outside the Tiangong space station. Liu Boming and Tang Hongbo stepped outside the Tianhe core module of the station on Sunday to position a camera and test a robotic arm. In a clip of Liu leaving the cabin, he … Read more
Perched atop massive cement pillars that tower above Montenegro’s picturesque Moraca river canyon is an incomplete highway that threatens to bankrupt the little Balkan nation. China Road and Bridge Corporation, the state-owned company which is building the bridge with imported Chinese workers, has not yet finished constructing the first section of the 270-mile highway to … Read more
China has begun construction on more than 100 missile silos for intercontinental ballistic missiles in a desert near the northwestern city of Yumen, experts have said. Researchers at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies in California have obtained commercial satellite images that they say show the construction of the silos underway. The images show 119 … Read more
Though long derided as ‘fool’s gold,’ pyrite might actually contain trace amounts of the precious metal that could be extracted through environmentally friendly means. Researchers at Curtin University and the University of Western Australia, both in Perth, and the China University of Geoscience in Wuhan reported on the ‘invisible’ gold in pyrite in a mew … Read more
China wants to build another 160 airports by 2035 despite the country being one of the worst polluters in the world as it ploughs ahead with its rapid expansion, ignoring desperate pleas from the West to curb its emissions. There are currently 241 airports in use across China following the long-awaited opening of the huge … Read more