A man has ended up in hospital with a severe fungal infection in his lungs caused by sniffing his socks. The unnamed man from China would take a whiff every day at the end of work. As he was changing…
Man sentenced to death for crashing SUV into crowd (Punch)
A man in Central China received a death sentence for ramming his SUV into a crowd, killing 15 people in September, a state media reported on Wednesday. The man went further to stab some persons afterwards. Another 43 people were…
Apple phones still sold in China despite ban (Guardian)
pple stores in China continued with business as usual Tuesday despite a court-ordered ban on iPhone sales, but the US tech giant faces a growing nationalist backlash over the US-sought arrest of a Huawei executive. According to US chipmaker Qualcomm,…
‘I really was quite a nasty jerk,’ Jackie Chan reveals in new English memoir
Martial arts film star Jackie Chan has revealed his battles with alcohol and admitted to throwing his son across the room in a blunt autobiography published for the first time in English on Tuesday. In the book “Never Grow Up,”…
Crazy Rich Asians bombs at the box office in China on its opening weekend (Metro)
Crazy Rich Asians failed to make an impression on its opening weekend as it headed to the box office in China. The Hollywood film took the western world by storm, pulling in $25.3million (£9.8million) in the first weekend of its…
Trump says China agreed to reduce tariffs on US car imports (BBC)
Beijing will “reduce and remove” the 40% tariffs it places on US cars imported into China, US President Donald Trump has said. China has declined to confirm President Trump’s announcement, which he made on Twitter without providing details. The move,…
China mourns death of former women’s World Cup star at 43 (Vanguard)
Football communities in the US and China were on Monday mourning the death of former Chinese international Zhang Ouying who had been fighting cancer. She was 43. Zhang came agonisingly close with China to winning the 1999 World Cup final,…
Shenzhen Half Marathon: Traffic cameras catch cheats taking shortcut (BBC)
Almost 250 runners in a half marathon were caught cheating when traffic cameras captured them taking shortcuts through bushes. Organisers of the race in Shenzhen, China, also discovered 18 runners wearing fake bibs and three runners they described as “impostors”.…
Chinese photojournalist detained in China (Guardian)
A Chinese award-winning photojournalist vanished in the restive northwest region of Xinjiang earlier this month after he was reportedly detained by security agents, his wife said. The wife of Lu Guang said she lost contact with him on the night…
Five dead, 18 hurt as car rams into children in China (Guardian)
A car rammed into a group of schoolchildren crossing a street in front of an elementary school in northeast China on Thursday, killing five people and injuring another 18, state media said. Police took the driver into custody and are…