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China's migrating elephant herd travels further south in Eshan county, say authorities
A herd of 14 migrating wild Asian elephants in China has travelled further south in Eshan county, Y…
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660,000 People In China Have Been Living With Almost No Water For Four Years
CCTV news spoke with villagers in Yuanmou County who said they last had rain four months ago. To co…
Mamta Badkar
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I'm a millennial in a 'digital nomad family.' My retired parents and I are living in a rural town for under $300 a month.
Stella Guan, 34, has been traveling the world while working remotely for a year, but it was other r…
Dan Latu
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Japanese fighters tracked a Chinese supersonic drone spying on its bases
It's the first time Japan has intercepted the drone, which appears to be for reconnaissance and ele…
Chris Panella
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A woman was yelled at by her tour guide when she fell asleep on the bus, sparking discussion about respectful tourist behavior
A guide in China's Yunnan province caused a heated online debate about tourist etiquette when she y…
Sebastian Cahill,Matthew Loh
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China's latest supersonic spy drone looks a lot like the Lockheed D-21 that crashed there in 1971
China's new WZ-8 supersonic drone resembles the Lockheed D-21, a supersonic reconnaissance drone th…
Benjamin Brimelow
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People are holding up blank white sheets of paper in China to protest COVID lockdowns. It's become a symbol of defiance against the Communist Party.
"The white paper represents everything we want to say but cannot say," a 26-year-old man named John…
Cheryl Teh
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Man abducted in China at age 4 reunites with family decades later using hand-drawn map of his childhood home
Li Jingwei couldn't remember his birth name after being abducted as a child, but he remembered how …
Kenneth Niemeyer
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China reports its first new locally transmitted COVID cases in three weeks, sparking mass testing
China reported seven new COVID cases on May 13, including two locally transmitted infections in the…
Cheryl Teh
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China is swinging into panic mode ahead of the Winter Olympics, locking down a city of 200,000 people over one COVID-19 case
China's COVID-zero approach has led it to impose harsh travel curbs, including a swift lockdown on …
Cheryl Teh
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China is guarding ancient bat caves against journalists and scientists seeking to discover the origins of the coronavirus
Chinese authorities prevented BBC and AP journalists from accessing caves in Yunnan. Some scientist…
Bill Bostock
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China was once obsessed with exams, but a tutoring ban by the government now has parents sending their kids to learn sports
Around 33,000 new sports and art schools opened a month after China banned for-profit tutoring in J…
Matthew Loh
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A Chinese city is paying $1,500 to anyone who tests positive for COVID-19
This is a new effort by the city's local government to lure anyone with symptoms to get tested for …
Cheryl Teh
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More than 11,000 Wuhan students poured into a stadium for their graduation ceremony sans masks or social distancing, even as the rest of Asia grapples with COVID lockdowns
The graduating class was feted with a banner reading: "The ocean is boundless for leaping fish."
Cheryl Teh
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The coronavirus likely traveled 800 miles to Wuhan from farms that breed wild animals for food, a WHO report found
WHO experts investigating the coronavirus' origins think it jumped from bats to an animal species l…
Aylin Woodward
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Bitcoin tumbles 11% after China steps up crackdown on crypto mining and financial operations
Sichuan authorities have ordered bitcoin miners to "clean up and terminate" their operations, accor…
Harry Robertson
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Striking photo shows a wall of traders on an auction floor in China working with masks on amid spread of coronavirus
While the traders in the photo are still working, the virus has caused many in China to stay home -…
Bryan Pietsch
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WATCH: A herd of elephants traveling hundreds of miles through China trots through city streets
A herd of elephants is traveling hundreds of miles through China. The group has been caught on secu…
Samara Abramson
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4 men ate almost 70 pounds of oranges in under 30 minutes to avoid an airport's excess baggage fees
Instead of paying 300 yuan ($47) in excess baggage fees, four Chinese men decided to devour a crate…
Joshua Zitser
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Energy consumption is a constant concern in crypto mining, but more sustainable practices are emerging
The surging use of non-fungible tokens (NFTs) and cryptocurrencies calls for increased efforts to m…