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China Update is about China economic and political news and analysis, today we discuss, the Chinese economy, the housing market and fears of financial crisis, the Chinese mortgage strike plus other China news

Long periods of sunny weather; a few heavy rain showers. That’s all fine...or is it? With increasing frequency, summer days are turning into long periods of drought, while rainfall is causing catastrophic flooding. Whereas weather systems were relatively...

A four-legged yellow and black robot has been called in to inspect the ancient ruins of Pompeii Italy's most famous archaeological sites. The robot, called Spot, designed by US-based Boston Dynamics, is part of a broader project to use technology to help...

A Damien Hirst art installation was removed from a gallery in Germany after animal rights groups complained that insects' rights were violated by a UV light set up to kill the creatures

Chinese gaming giant Tencent will scan gamers' faces to prevent children playing at night.

A video of a five-year-old girl carting around a US$75,000 camera to film a school wildlife project has gone viral on Chinese social media platforms. Meng Meng often follows her photo-videographer father when he goes shooting.

Venice is one of the world's most beautiful cities. It is made up of over a hundred islands in a lagoon in the northern Adriatic Sea. Venice is a cultural and tourist destination known for its museums, architecture, cityscape, and art world.

New facility unites the economic and demographic giants of Asia and Africa

Chinese President Xi Jinping visited the far western region of Xinjiang on July 12-13, 2022, on his first trip to the area in eight years. The Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region is seen as a sensitive topic, with Beijing blaming years of violent attacks in...

On July 8, 2022 former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe died after being shot during a campaign speech. He was Japan’s longest-serving prime minister and played a significant role in the country’s political landscape.

Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi says he will resign, but Italy's President Sergio Mattarella rejected the offer. Bloomberg's Tommaso Ebhardt reports on "...

DRAMATIC moment hero vets save mother elephant's life with CPR and rescues baby from drain in Thailand. The animal and her baby slipped into the 7ft deep hole during a storm which made the grass muddy and wet in Nakhon Nayok province, Thailand on July 1...

Facebook’s parent company Meta has drawn fire over its summary of a long-awaited report on its human rights impact in India

Voyager 1 is in trouble. The engineering team with NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft is trying to solve a mystery: readouts from the probe’s attitude articulation and control system (AACS) don’t reflect what’s actually happening onboard. The AACS controls the 4...

The Trump family is mourning the death of Ivana Trump, the ex-wife of former president Donald Trump. She was found dead inside her Upper East Side home Thursday. CBS2's Dick Brennan reports.

NASA revealed the first five full-color images and spectrographic data from the world's most powerful space telescope, the James Webb Space Telescope, a partnership with ESA (European Space Agency), and CSA (Canadian Space Agency). The world got its first...