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Inside Harbin, the Chinese city that was designed 150 years ago to look like a 'little Russia'
Night view of the Saint Sofia Cathedral, a former Russian Orthodox church, located in the central d…
Marielle Descalsota
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I worked in China's brutal 996 tech culture. I'm relieved they laid me off.
Jack Forsdike, a 28-year-old from the UK, was on a 996 team for several months at a video game deve…
Matthew Loh
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North Korea has fired a ballistic missile toward Sea of Japan, says South Korean military
North Korea has fired a ballistic missile towards the sea off its east coast, South Korea's militar…
ANI
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Chinese scientists want to use lasers to power ultrafast, stealthy submarines. A laser expert says there's a major flaw in their plan.
Chinese scientists from Harbin University say they've made a breakthrough in underwater laser propu…
Polly Thompson
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A mega restaurant chain is on a mission to get half of China to eat KFC and Pizza Hut by 2026
Yum China operates over 10,000 KFCs and 3,300 Pizza Huts in China, with more than half of these sto…
Matthew Loh
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Twin sisters swapped passports and used each other's identities to travel abroad more than 30 times
Before getting caught, the Zhou twins from China managed to visit Japan, Russia, and Thailand while…
Waiyee Yip
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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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China is hyping the 2022 Beijing Olympics with a 60-foot tall grinning snowman
The snowman was made from 2,000 cubic meters of snow, and is located in the northeastern Chinese ci…
Cheryl Teh
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Eating carb-rich foods earlier in the day may help people with diabetes live longer, study suggests
New research suggests eating potatoes in the morning, whole grains at midday and greens at night ma…
Gabby Landsverk
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'Dragon Man,' a mysterious new human species found in China, could be a closer relative of ours than Neanderthals
A species of human ancestor called Homo longi, or "Dragon Man," lived in China 146,000 years ago. I…
Aylin Woodward
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The world's first 'polar bear hotel' has opened in China and immediately drawn criticism over bleak conditions
The Polar Bear Hotel, part of the Harbin Polarland theme park, northeast China, features a soulless…
Naina Bhardwaj
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A Florida security contractor fired a worker via Signal chat 10 minutes after they raised concerns about COVID-19 safety, lawsuit says
The US Department of Labor said Monday it's suing the company for violating the Occupational Safety…
Grace Dean
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A city in China hosts an elaborate winter festival with giant ice castles, mass weddings, and a frigid swimming contest - take a look
China's Heilongjiang Province isn't always a big destination for tourists, but when winter rolls ar…
Aylin Woodward
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A Chinese city apologized after an employee beat a dog to death when the owner was in COVID-19 quarantine
Footage posted to social media, purportedly of the incident, showed two people in protective equipm…
Bill Bostock
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Top 5 coldest cities of the world you might want to go to for your next vacation
The climate and weather are never uniform throughout the world. Abundance of rain and prolonged exp…
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China's elaborate winter festival is now a graveyard of melting ice castles. Take a look.
The work of tens of thousands of artists is now melting on a plot of land larger than California's …
Aria Bendix
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Extensive contact tracing, isolation key to control COVID-19 spread: Lancet Study
However, the researchers from the Harbin Institute of Technology at Shenzhen, China, caution that …
PTI
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China finds coronavirus on two imported frozen food packaging samples
Chinese health authorities said that two imported frozen food packaging samples have tested positiv…
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China rushes medical supplies by air to Russia border as imported Covid-19 cases surge
China's National Health Commission (NHC) in its daily report on Thursday said 12 new cases of domes…
PTI
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A Chinese province is offering cash rewards up to $800 for any resident who tracks down and catches illegal immigrants coming over the Russian border
Local authorities are offering $818 to residents who catch an illegal immigrant, or $425 for inform…