The recently concluded 12th National Games for Persons with Disabilities and the 9th National Special Olympic Games are expected to accelerate improvements in accessibility infrastructure and assistive technology across the region, benefiting people with disabilities, officials said. The games, co-hosted by Guangdong province and the Hong Kong and Macao special administrative regions, ended with a closing ceremony at Shenzhen Sports Center on Monday night after eight days of competition. The ceremony, simple yet evocative, highlighted the spirit of inclusion between people with and without disabilities. According to the organizing committee,…
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In just under two weeks, the animated blockbuster Zootopia 2 has swept across Chinese cinemas with a speed and appetite worthy of its famously bustling fictional metropolis, drawing crowds, driving merchandise frenzies, and reaffirming the enduring emotional bond between Disney’s beloved animal universe and audiences in China. As the film continues climbing the charts with remarkable momentum, its return signals more than just a sequel — it is the revival of a cultural phenomenon once again shaping conversations, consumer trends, and imaginative storytelling nationwide. The total box-office revenue of the…
Describing the mass shooting that killed at least 16 people at Sydney’s Bondi Beach on Sunday as a “pure evil” act of antisemitism, Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese on Monday said flags would fly at half-mast to honor the lives lost in the attack, Australia’s ABC News reported Monday. Albanese said that Australia would do whatever is necessary to stamp out antisemitism. “It is a scourge and we’ll eradicate it together,” he said. The death toll from a shooting has risen to 16, with a father and son identified as…
Visitors view auroras on an interactive LED radar screen in an aurora-themed museum in Mohe, Heilongjiang province. CHINA DAILY Residents and tourists couldn’t help but admire the stunning aurora borealis in Mohe, Heilongjiang province, China’s northernmost city on the evening of Nov 24. The auroras, mainly colored pink and purple, ripple alternately across the night sky at high latitudes, attracting visitors and photographers along the banks of the frozen Heilongjiang River to capture the moment with their cameras. However, when they entered the country’s first aurora-themed museum in Mohe’s Beiji…
Recent studies have found the existence of vast, hitherto unknown reservoirs of primordial water thousands of kilometers below the Earth’s surface, which could offer clues to understanding the process of the planet’s evolution. While simulating the extreme high-temperature and high-pressure conditions that exist 660 kilometers underground, researchers discovered that the main mineral of the Earth’s mantle — bridgmanite — possessed significant water-retention capacity even at temperatures of up to 4,100 C. The Earth’s mantle is the thick, semi-solid layer of hot, dense rock that lies between the crust and the…
United States President Donald Trump’s decision to conditionally approve exports of Nvidia’s advanced H200 artificial-intelligence semiconductors to China has drawn wide attention. But while the move reflects the eased bilateral trade tensions, two realities remain unchanged: China is an indispensable market for global AI-chipmakers, and Washington’s high-tech export controls on China remain firmly in place. China is one of the world’s largest and most competitive AI markets. For Nvidia — whose revenues were unavoidably hit this year after sales of its H20 chips to China were restricted by the US…
The vast expanse of the Pacific Ocean, over 5,000 nautical miles across, protects the West Coast of the United States against Chinese naval forces in the event of a war. The appearance of new extra-extra-large underwater drones (XXLUUVs) changes this, providing China with low-risk options to directly threaten West Coast ports. For decades American strategy in East Asia, focused on a potential conflict with China, have viewed the vast expanse of the Pacific Ocean as both a challenge and an advantage. While the distances involved make logistics harder (known as…
The Scots may well have codified golf as we know it – including, after a few false starts, making it a game of 18 holes. But the jury’s still out on who first came up with the idea of an open-air game that involves using a stick to hit a ball towards a target. The Romans played a game called paganica, in which a ball stuffed with feathers and wool was hit with a bent stick, while the Dutch played a stick-and-ball game called colf as early as the 13th…
Weeks after a jewel heist raised concerns about security at the Paris museum, the Louvre was once again in the spotlight as the museum said on Sunday that a water leak in late November damaged several hundred works in its Egyptian department, AFP reported. “Between 300 and 400 works” were affected by the leak discovered on November 26, the museum’s deputy administrator, Francis Steinbock, was quoted by AFP as saying, describing them as “Egyptology journals” and “scientific documentation” used by researchers. The damaged items dated from the late 19th and…
China’s foreign trade edged up in the first 11 months of 2025, with total imports and exports of goods reaching 41.21 trillion yuan ($5.83 trillion), a year-on-year rise of 3.6 percent, according to data released by the General Administration of Customs on Monday. The exports reached 24.46 trillion yuan, up 6.2 percent year-on-year, while imports grew 0.2 percent year-on-year to 16.75 trillion yuan, the administration said. In November alone, the total value of China’s foreign trade reached 3.9 trillion yuan ($551.5 billion), marking a year-on-year increase of 4.1 percent, customs…