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Zhuhai car attack survivor recalls ‘earthquake-like’ noise
14 Nov 2024 - 4:55PM
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Zhuhai victims heard sound ‘like earthquake’ but had no time to escape: survivor
14 Nov 2024 - 9:19AM
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Zhuhai car attack: China tightens security as leaders look for ‘risks and dangers’
13 Nov 2024 - 4:23PM
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Rampaging wild boars a growing menace in China’s cities
Authorities allocate funds and encourage hunting to cull the animals, which have attacked people and damaged property across the country.
9 Nov 2024 - 4:01PM
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China husband suffers 90% burns in kitchen gas blast, saves wife, dies later
Heroic husband dies from multiple organ failure as son struggles to tell mother of his father’s tragic demise.
7 Nov 2024 - 9:45AM
China on course for record harvest in boost for food security drive
Minister says the country is set to produce more than 700 million tonnes of grain for the first time despite extreme weather events.
27 Oct 2024 - 7:15PM
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9 million watch video in shock as severely burned mother saves trapped toddler
Injured son pulled out from under blown-off kitchen door after gas leak sparks huge explosion as mother cooks.
26 Oct 2024 - 4:58PM
Small areas of Tibetan Plateau may have outsize impact on East Asia’s rainfall
Up to a quarter of the heaviest rainfall may be the result of gravity waves created in small pockets of mountainous terrain.
16 Oct 2024 - 5:42PM
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Milton vs Yagi: why do superstorms kill more people in US than China?
Among several differences, observers note that China’s evacuation orders are mandatory, moving thousands out of harm’s way.
12 Oct 2024 - 9:00AM
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Taiwan warns of storm surge from Typhoon Krathon, mobilises 40,000 troops
Coastguard searches for 19 sailors who abandoned ship as Kaohsiung mayor describes storm as ‘no less powerful’ than 1977’s Typhoon Thelma.
1 Oct 2024 - 3:03PM
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Japan, China top diplomats to meet in New York over murder of Japanese boy
Foreign Minister Yoko Kamikawa of Japan says she will ‘strongly urge’ Chinese counterpart ‘to provide a clear explanation of the facts’.
23 Sep 2024 - 10:57PM
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China’s storm response a sign of progress in relations with Vietnam
China’s efforts to help Vietnam recover from Yagi are a proactive move that hopefully will continue. Both sides should seize the opportunity.
22 Sep 2024 - 12:45AM
Man accused of stabbing Japanese boy jobless with criminal record: Chinese media
Information about the sensitive case is tightly controlled by Chinese police, media and internet censors.
20 Sep 2024 - 8:16PM
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Child from Japanese school stabbed in China on sensitive 918 anniversary
Local police detain 44-year-old man accused of attacking the primary student who is being treated in hospital for injuries.
18 Sep 2024 - 6:34PM
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Can China strengthen climate defences before it’s too late?
While China has prioritised climate adaptation, inadequate investment, fragmented policies and poor coordination between municipalities risk holding back progress.
18 Sep 2024 - 5:30AM
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Shanghai hit by biggest typhoon in 75 years
16 Sep 2024 - 5:16PM
Shanghai mops up as Typhoon Bebinca reaches eastern China’s Jiangsu province
Financial hub of 25 million people lashed by winds and rains from strongest tropical cyclone to hit the city since 1949.
16 Sep 2024 - 9:13PM
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China says it’s working with Vietnam on flood control after Typhoon Yagi
Water is being stored in reservoirs of hydropower stations along upper reaches of the Red River, according to foreign ministry.
11 Sep 2024 - 8:27PM
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Super Typhoon Yagi: officials, military in Southern China push to fix services
Guangdong and Hainan provinces work to clean up and sanitise streets and help farmers, fishers and factories get back to work.
9 Sep 2024 - 3:42PM
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Super Typhoon Yagi lashes south China, killing 4 and injuring 95
Beijing pledges 200 million yuan in disaster relief after this year’s second-strongest tropical cyclone sweeps Hainan, Guangdong and Guangxi.
7 Sep 2024 - 8:18PM
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Super Typhoon Yagi: over 410,000 people relocated as storm hits southern China
Yagi predicted to move northwest, crossing Haikou, Chengmai and Lingao before moving into the ocean by Saturday morning.
6 Sep 2024 - 7:44PM
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11 dead in eastern China, driver detained after bus hits crowd outside school
Local movie theatre hosts blood donation vehicles amid social media callout to aid dozens injured in crash.
3 Sep 2024 - 7:19PM
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Chinese cooking oil scandal prompts new safety rules for transporting products
China to adopt regulations in wake of investigation finding dirty fuel tanks were used to carry vegetable oil, but public still sceptical.
30 Aug 2024 - 9:00PM
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China says Mekong dam did not discharge water downstream amid Thailand floods
The Jinghong dam has previously been blamed for changes in water levels, but Bangkok embassy says no water was discharged last week.
28 Aug 2024 - 9:50PM
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China-US study finds urbanisation worsens extreme droughts
Nearly 40 per cent of world’s cities face more severe droughts now than in 1980, pointing to need for sustainable urban design and planning.
17 Aug 2024 - 2:00PM
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Major earthquake off Taiwan is felt in mainland China, Japan, Philippines
The 6.1 magnitude quake disrupted travel for morning commuters in Taipei but there were no immediate reports of damage.
16 Aug 2024 - 7:10PM
China to screen arrivals showing mpox symptoms as cases spread outside Africa
All aircraft and vessels from areas affected by the disease will need to comply with health measures, customs officials said.
16 Aug 2024 - 4:50PM
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Shock as China’s ‘most handsome Shaolin monk’ Qiu Feng, 21, killed in car crash
Qiu Feng, the young man dubbed China’s “most handsome Shaolin monk”, has been killed in a car accident at the age of 21.
14 Aug 2024 - 3:17PM
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