The idea of solar roads has been dismissed by many as being impractical. But that didn’t stop China from opening one for testing today, joining the ranks of France, Holland, and other countries giving it a shot.
The Chinese mall best known for its statue of a rooster modeled after Donald Trump has done it again. Brace yourself for #TrumpDog.
A high-level review of how well China is implementing a new cybersecurity law and other regulations pertaining to cyberspace says that authorities have taken down 13,000 illegal websites and barred some 10 million user accounts since 2015.
In 2017, the world saw a China more eager to take its place as a global leader, with president Xi Jinping heralding the importance of a globalized world at Davos, just ahead of Donald Trump’s “America First” inauguration in January, and portraying China as being on the frontlines in fighting climate change.
Perhaps no other country felt the economic cost of China’s wrath as South Korea did this year.
Pandas are undeniably adorable, but would you wipe your mouth with tissues made from their feces? A paper manufacturer in China is betting on it, and thinks you’ll pay extra for the privilege.
For most of the world’s population, this Thursday (Dec. 21) will be the shortest day and longest night of the year as the winter solstice kicks in.
A free health-care program in an impoverished part of the world sounds like a welcome development. But the “Physicals for All” project in China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region is not what it seems, according to a Human Rights Watch report published today.
The world is quickly abandoning coal, the dirtiest of fossil fuels. But that’s not the end of the road for coal mines—in many countries they’re coming back to life as solar farms.
Three women in China, all fired earlier this year while they were either expecting or nursing, united to pursue arbitration against the Chinese logistics firm that employed them, in what appears to be a rare instance of a joint action by pregnant women over workers’ rights.
BYD, China’s largest electric car maker, has set up a nearly $1 billion private fund to finance monorail systems in 20 Chinese cities, as it looks to China’s multi-billion dollar public transport market to expand its business.
Back in 1998, Australian oncologist Jennifer Byrne was among the first to clone a cancer gene that is associated with breast cancer and the type of leukemia most common in children. Two years ago, when Byrne came across mentions of the gene, called TPD52L2, in five papers from separate authors, something didn’t seem quite right.
Scientists have unearthed a massive trove of fossilized eggs and remains in China—giving us a peek into the life and death of a giant flying creature that lived tens of millions of years ago.
Around a year ago, the pine cone-looking pangolin received the highest level of protection against illegal trading by the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species. While China is supposed to abide by those rules, the country still remains a trafficking hub for the scaly animal.
As companies and governments around the world test drone deliveries, turning the slightly unnerving prospect of heavily-loaded unmanned machines flying over your head into an approaching reality, Amazon is preparing for the worst.
“Rich children go abroad, middle-class children get poked with needles, lower-class children get evicted from their homes.”
Beijing authorities are investigating child-abuse allegations at a kindergarten run by a US-listed preschool education group, which operates up to 1,800 kindergartens and day-care centers across 300 cities in China (link in Chinese). It’s the second high-profile case of alleged child abuse at a Chinese school this month.
A little over two years ago, China’s Hainan Airlines flew 156 passengers with the help of cooking oil from Shanghai to Beijing. Now, the same carrier, which is already China’s biggest private airline by both market size and fleet size, flew passengers much further on cooking oil-blended aviation fuel.
A Chinese company has built a 2,000 metric-ton all-electric cargo ship, which was launched from the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou in mid-November.
It’s been almost a decade since China’s infamous milk powder scandal came to light—when tainted formula killed six infants. The trauma left by that episode has been so strong that people in China still strongly prefer a foreign brand to a domestic one when it comes to infant formula.
Seven Chinese scholars visiting the University of California, Davis, set up a local chapter of China’s Communist Party to guard against the “corrosion” of western ideas—only to realize they had set up a potentially illegal organization under US law.
In many developing countries, finding a clean public toilet can be extremely hard. The problem has prompted cooperation between tech giants and local authorities. Google, for example, partnered with India’s urban planning authorities to help people locate the nearest toilets.
When a woman named Wu received a text message from a local fire department about the inhabitants of her home, she was shocked. The department notified Wu that her house, rented out to a couple, had in fact been sublet to many others. Long before she knew it, the details of her house had been input into China’s policing system, which has a better memory than most people in China about what they did, and where, and when.
The world imagined by Chinese writer Jin Yong is one which celebrates loyalty, courage, and the triumph of the individual over a corrupt and authoritarian state—carried out by no less than heroes who fly through trees and deliver deadly blows to their enemies with a single finger.
