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China has unveiled a prototype of a new magnetic levitation (maglev) train designed to reach speeds of up to 600 km/h. Maglev technology uses strong electromagnets which lift and propel the.... Read more via World Economic Forum – https://ift.tt/2XxWjax Get more World News

BEIJING, Jun 20 – Former Interpol chief Meng Hongwei pleaded guilty at a trial in China on Thursday to accepting $2.1 million in bribes — a remarkable fall from grace for the former vice minister of public security. The Tianjin No.1 Intermediate Court said Meng “showed repentance” during …...

After a Chinese woman complained about stomach pains for more than 10 years, doctors performed surgery and found the cause of her pain was a foot-long parasitic worm inside of her intestines, Fox News reported. Before her surgery, the 41-year-old woman had gone to multiple doctors for her...

This fisherman in China made the catch of his life â a 100-year-old, 514-kilogram sturgeon.... Get more World News

The toll from a strong 6.0-magnitude earthquake in southwest China rose to 11 dead and 122 injured on Tuesday, as rescuers pulled survivors from wrecked buildings..... Read more via TODAY.NG – http://bit.ly/2WNmIgb Get more World News

China’s ambassador to the UK has warned that excluding Huawei from Britain’s 5G network “sends a very bad signal”.... Read more via Leadership Newspaper – http://bit.ly/2Key37n Get more World News

Chinese President Xi Jinping headed for Russia Wednesday to mark a new era of friendship and reinforce economic ties that had benefitted from Moscow’s isolation from the West. Due to arrive in the early afternoon, Xi will be received with full honours..... Read more via Capital News –...

HONG KONG — An all-white, albino panda has appeared in a natural reserve in China, the first of its kind to be documented, an expert said this week. The panda was photographed in April with an infrared camera at the Wolong National Nature Reserve in the … Read more via The New York Times –...

The president of the China Chambers of Commerce in Nigeria, Mr. Ye Shuijin, recently disclosed that the total investments of Chinese companies in the country have reached.... Read more via Nairametrics – http://bit.ly/2VJN3LD Get more: Nigeria Business News

Using an iPhone in China is now seen as embarrassing by some consumers, says a local report. The combined impact of the Trump administration’s trade war on China and export blacklisting of Huawei is further strengthening the ‘Boycott Apple’ movement in the country… Read more via 9to5Mac –...

The US has more than doubled tariffs on $200bn (£153.7bn) worth of Chinese products, in a sharp escalation of the countries' damaging trade war. Tariffs on affected Chinese goods have risen to 25% from 10%, and Beijing has vowed to retaliate.... Read more via BBC News – https://bbc.in/2Vdaahc...

China’s medical authority said on Wednesday that 158 Internet hospitals had been built, to address congestion in large urban hospitals amid digital tide. Mao Qun’an, a director of the National Health Commission, said at the second Digital China Summit that 19 provinces, or over half of …...

China is sending its top trade envoy to Washington to resume negotiations and confront U.S. demands that Beijing detail the laws it would change as a part of a trade deal, ahead of a deadline set.... Read more via The Wall Street Journal News – https://on.wsj.com/2JlG8pn Get more World News

China wants everything from Africa: its strategic location, its oil, its rare earth metals, and its fish, leaving African nations indebted to Beijing.... Read more via Forbes – http://bit.ly/2PKXbCw Get more: Nigeria Business News

Marvel fan, 21, has to be rushed to hospital from the cinema after ‘crying too hard while watching Avengers... Read more via Linda Ikeji’s Blog – http://bit.ly/2UN9Sxv Get more Nigeria Entertainment News

Scientists in China may have created a new kind of monkey — and with it, a big ethical dilemma. Researchers inserted a human brain gene into monkeys, in an experiment with the potential to cross the wires of human and animal intelligence.... Read more via CBS News – https://cbsn.ws/2PunY5Y...

A woman in Southwest China had to undergo an emergency abortion on Monday after her fetus was found to be growing on her liver. The 26-year-old woman Xiao Xia (pseudonym) in Guizhou Province first.... Read more via Globaltimes News – http://bit.ly/2L4bXpi Get more World News

US intelligence has accused Huawei Technologies of being funded by Chinese state security, adding to the list of allegations against the company.... Read more via TODAY.NG – http://bit.ly/2VWBSjE Get more World News

Global benchmark crude, Brent oil, yesterday hit a 2019 high above $72 a barrel, propelled by steady economic growth in China and a fall in United States crude stocks.... Read more via Thisdaylive Newspaper – http://bit.ly/2Gpimpt Get more: Nigeria Business News

A 12-year-old boy from Meishan, in China’s Sichuan Province, has been hailed as a hero for making it possible for a disabled classmate to move around at school by carrying him on his back for the last six years. When he was only 4-years-old, Zhang Ze was … Read more via Ghana News HomePage...