East China battens down as Typhoon In-Fa approaches... NINGBO, China Typhoon In-Fa lashed eastern China with high winds and heavy rain on Sunday as other parts of the country were still cleaning up following historic flooding. View of the Yuyao river over flowing during heavy rains in Ningbo, eastern China
Hong Kong, Snuffed Out... This great, free, vibrant city was promised 50 years of autonomy. It got less than half that allotment.'
COVID-19: Vietnam’s biggest city locked down ... Vietnam's Ho Chi Minh City yesterday began a two-week lockdown in the hope of containing the nation's worst COVID-19 outbreak.The city of 9 million had previously been subjected to travel restrictions for one month, but infection rates were steadi
330,000 Chinese facing drinking water shortages as drought hits south... Hundreds of thousands of people in southern and eastern parts of China are facing drinking water shortages as a result of months of reduced rainfall, the central government says. The Ministry of Water Resources said on Thursday that more than 500,000 hectares of arable land had been affected by the
China To Open Giant Telescope To International Scientists... Nestled among the mountains in southwest China, the world's largest radio telescope signals Beijing's ambitions as a global centre for scientific research.The Five-hundred-metre Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST) -- the only significant instrumen