A policeman from eastern China and his wife saved a family of five from a crashed car dangling over a steep slope during their honeymoon, earning widespread praise for their bravery.
The 28-year-old civil policeman from Jiangsu province, Fan Kaiyue, and his wife, social worker Gu Jianing, were enjoying their honeymoon on the southern Chinese island province of Hainan.
On July 20, while travelling along a mountainous highway, they spotted a
Total failure leaves millions without electricity amid severe fuel shortages, ageing infrastructure and US sanctions
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Cuba’s power grid failed on Sunday, causing another nationwide blackout, a state utility said in a social media post.
As the lights suddenly turned off across Havana, residents who were sat outside to get some respite from the summer heat audibly groaned en masse.
Cuba has been suffering rolling power cuts due to ageing equipment and
Hong Kong sporting event organisers should use technology to better track and monitor athletes, lawmakers have urged after a triathlete went missing at sea in Tai Po and was later found dead.
The death of the participant in the city’s Summer Triathlon Challenge on Sunday has raised concerns over whether safety measures for such races are sufficient, especially amid unstable weather.
“Since technology has advanced, can the GPS be optimised? In many past races, participants used GPS to log checkpoints and completion times,” said lawmaker Vincent Cheng Wing
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While Chinese families grow cautious, South Korean retail investors use record leverage to chase tech ETFs
Executives of Habita, which operates the variety store, say they have apologised to the family of one of the victims at her wake
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Higher rainfall across arid Ningxia has invited comparison to prosperous Tang dynasty ‘warm period’, but scientists offer a note of caution
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In China’s arid northwest, local state media in the Ningxia Hui autonomous region are celebrating a surge of rainfall in an area that usually averages 300mm (about 12 inches) per year.
The rain belt moving northwards would bring “climate dividends”, the
Ho Chi Minh City’s bustling jewellery quarter has fallen unusually quiet. Customers are not browsing for engagement rings or necklaces any more – instead they are clutching old receipts and certificates, hoping to sell diamonds they no longer trust.
A surgical procedure for Alzheimer’s disease being tested in Hong Kong has the potential to improve patients’ ability to take care of their basic needs such as getting dressed and remaining socially engaged.
The clinical application was pioneered by a mainland Chinese doctor in Hangzhou as early as 2018 and quickly gained nationwide popularity, fuelled by viral social media videos showing dramatic post-surgery transformation of patients.
However, uncertainty about the procedure’s safety and effectiveness led China’s National Health Commission to ban its unregulated use
A potential US ban on Chinese open-weight artificial intelligence (AI) models could cost American businesses up to US$12 billion per year, according to calculations by a US-based academic, as technology firms increasingly turn to cost-efficient Chinese solutions.
While the exact economic toll of a ban remains difficult to quantify, usage data from New York-based OpenRouter – a large language model (LLM) aggregator – offers a glimpse into the potential fallout, said Daniel Yue, an assistant professor at the Georgia