Mass cancellations of flights from Guiyang Longdongbao International Airport to Beijing, Shanghai and Shenzhen are triggering fresh travel disruption across China just as millions prepare to travel for the Qingming holiday period. Get the latest news straight to your inbox! Holiday Rush Meets Fragile Flight Network The disruption in Guiyang comes at a sensitive moment…
Tourist attractions across China saw a growing stream of visitors on Saturday, the first day of the three-day Qingming Festival holiday. The Qingming Festival, or Tomb-Sweeping Day, is a traditional Chinese festival for honoring the deceased and paying tribute to ancestors. The holiday also provides a short break for the Chinese people as they engage…
A Chinese biotechnology company is stepping up efforts to combine artificial intelligence (AI) with advanced genetic testing in a bid to improve the success rates of in vitro fertilization (IVF), while also tapping into growing demand for fertility services. The move comes as China faces a deepening birth rate crisis. The firm, BGI Genomics, says it…
NASA’s Artemis program has drawn attention for its plan to send astronauts around the moon. But behind that mission is a broader strategic push: a new race between the United States and China to return humans to the lunar surface. This time, the race is about more than flags and footprints. The country that gets…
The long-awaited launch of NASA‘s Artemis II mission dominated science news this week, with the excitement peaking Wednesday (April 1) as the space agency’s first crewed mission to the moon in over 50 years blasted off from Cape Canaveral, Florida. Millions tuned in around the world as the towering Space Launch System rocket and Orion…
Iran war against the U.S and Israel has led to global energy crisis-like situation. The geo-political conflict has landed President Donald Trump in a precarious situation. Now China is exploiting the security vacuum in the Middle East to position itself as a “strategic alternative”, amid growing doubts in Beijing over the viability of US bases…
Goblet-shaped sea jelly relatives with miniature “arms.” A plump, legless creature resembling a sausage. Long, wormlike animals tipped with flat “holdfast” discs for anchoring to the seafloor. Newfound fossils from a site in southwestern China, preserved in exquisite detail, offer a peek at a time in Earth’s distant past called the Ediacaran (635 million to…
BEIJING — Young people in China hoping to boost their chances of success have a new digital good luck charm: American reality TV star Kris Jenner. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content. Gen Z social media users are channeling the wealthy Kardashian-Jenner matriarch’s “momager” energy to…
ANI | Updated: Apr 04, 2026 18:11 IST Washington DC [US], April 4 (ANI): Chairman John Moolenaar has cosponsored the bipartisan Multilateral Alignment of Technology Controls on Hardware (MATCH) Act, aimed at strengthening US national security by closing key gaps in export controls on semiconductor manufacturing equipment (SME), according to a release by the Select…
TAIPEI, Taiwan — A few weeks before President Donald Trump arrives in China next month, Chinese President Xi Jinping will have another visitor: Taiwan’s opposition leader. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content. When Cheng Li-wun, chairperson of Taiwan’s Nationalist Party, touches down in China on Tuesday,…