The Chinese air force saved the big guns for last at its biennial Zhuhai air show, flying its new stealth fighters with full missile loads Sunday for the first time in a public display. The twin-engine J-20, seen as China’s…
36 deported from Philippines for fraud (Punch)
A total of 36 telecom fraudsters have been returned from the Philippines to southern China’s Shenzhen on Wednesday. The suspects are behind more than 700 fraud cases across China involving over 18 million yuan (2.6 million dollars). according to the…
Bus plunged off bridge killing 15 after woman hit driver (BBC)
A woman who attacked a bus driver after she missed her stop was partially responsible for a dramatic crash in southwestern China which killed all 15 people on board, an investigation by Chinese authorities revealed Friday. A 10-second clip from…
Alarm over Chinese “human flesh” drugs (Vanguard)
It sounds like a tale from a fictitious horror novel or movie, but unknown to millions of Nigerians they could easily be consumers of Chinese drugs made with human flesh! It would have been difficult to believe this shocking news…
Knife-wielding woman attacks school, injures 14 children in China (Punch)
A knife-wielding woman attacked and injured 14 children at a kindergarten in China’s southwestern Sichuan province on Friday, authorities said. The 39-year-old assailant used a kitchen knife to slashed students while they were returning to the classroom after morning exercises,…
European shares fall to lowest levels in nearly two years (Nation)
European shares fell to their lowest levels in nearly two years on Tuesday as a new batch of third-quarter earnings failed to offset growing concerns on Brexit, Italy’s budget, Saudi isolation, trade wars, Chinese growth and U.S. interest rates. The…
Chinese app takes social media world by storm (CNN)
Chinese social media apps have struggled to win over users beyond their home turf. TikTok is changing that. In the space of just two years, the app has amassed more than half a billion users — around 40% of them…
I’m not sure he’s alive, says wife of missing Interpol ex-chief (Punch)
The wife of fallen former Interpol chief Meng Hongwei has expressed fears for his life and her own safety, lashing out at what she called the “cruel” and “dirty” Chinese government that arrested him in mysterious circumstances. The comments by…
Woman kills self after husband fakes death (BBC)
A Chinese man who allegedly faked his own death for an insurance payout has surrendered to police after his wife killed herself and their two children. The 34-year-old was presumed dead after his car was found in a river, though…
Police detains 26 suspects for allegedly smuggling drugs inside crayfish (Independent)
Authorities in Huzhou in eastern China’s Zhejiang Province on Tuesday said the police had detained 26 suspects belonging to a drug gang that used crayfish to transport drugs from central China’s Hubei Province. According to an official, spicy crayfish which…