Dozens of officials in China’s southern Guangdong province have been punished over a highway collapse last year – the country’s deadliest such incident in over a decade. At least 52 people were killed and 30 others injured when a section of the Meizhou-Dabu highway in Guangdong collapsed on May 1 after weeks of downpours. Around…
A man in China was sentenced to four years in prison after he accidentally threw his six-month-old daughter out of their flat window, resulting in her death and sending shock waves through the community. A court in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region of Western China recently sentenced the father, surnamed Zhao, for manslaughter, as reported…
Police cars at night (KPRC/Click2Houston.com) All eastbound lanes of US-290 at the I-10 direct connector have reopened after being shut down early Monday morning due to a fatal motorcycle crash. Houston police and fire crews responded to the scene around 2:44 a.m. after receiving reports of a motorcycle down. The rider was found unresponsive and…
A woman in central China has astonished social media users by constructing a door in the external wall of a residential building and installing stairs to connect to the adjacent block as an emergency exit in the event of a fire. The modifications made by the resident surnamed Wang, who lives in Changde, Hunan province,…
Text size A stampede at a middle school in China’s northwestern Xinjiang region has left 14 people injured, according to local authorities. The incident occurred at around 3:25 pm (7:25 am GMT) on Monday at the No. 8 Middle School in Kashgar, a statement on a social media account affiliated with the city government said….