Mere hours after we reported that China’s capital city, Shanghai, has fallen to the coronavirus pandemic, we are now learning from our Taiwan news sources that China’s mega-city of Shanghai has also just been placed under strict lock down. This is now confirmed via Yahoo News Taiwan. The rough English translation reports: …[T]he Shanghai municipal government also said at a press conference on... 

Zou Yi, a 56-year-old businessmen from Beijing, lives in his 13th floor flat across from Beijing Television’s headquarters. Some days he can see every detail of the skyscraper; some days he can hardly see it at all because of heavy smog which he decided to document every morning by taking photos from his window. Every morning Zou Yi wakes up to make a shot of Beijing’s polluted skies from the... 

A fire broke out at a warehouse in the city of Tianjin, China on Monday night. The blaze was caused by an alcohol spill, according to People’s Daily China. It comes just two months after deadly blasts rocked a chemical warehouse in Tianjin. The blaze was located in the Beichen district of Tianjin municipality. Police and firefighters rushed to the scene and rescue work is still ongoing, according... 

The death toll in a series of explosions in the Chinese city of Tianjin has increased to 112. The death toll in a series of explosions that have occurred in the warehouse of hazardous substances in the Chinese city of Tianjin has increased to 112, with the identity of only twenty-four people known so far, Chinese Central Television (CCTV) reported on Sunday. Earlier, it was reported that the death... 

On August 13, a giant sinkhole appeared on the construction site of a subway station in the city of Dongguan, China. According to The South China Morning Post, the sinkhole was originally 80 m2 before expanding to 300 m2. The contractor started pouring concrete into the hole to stop it from sinking further. One person was killed as a result of the tragedy. Meanwhile, the death toll from the recent... 

The death toll from a series of explosions at an industrial area in the Chinese port of Tianjin in northern China has risen to 44, authorities say. More than 500 people were also injured – 66 of them in critical condition – in the explosions, state media reported on Thursday. Those killed, according to the official Xinhua news outlet, included 12 firefighters, who were trying to battle the fires... 

Air pollution in China is still incredibly high, 90 percent of its cities stand below the threshold for air safety standards in 2014. The “war on pollution” started a year earlier is having some effect, but hazardous emergencies are still in the hundreds. Only eight of China’s 74 large cities have managed to meet official air safety standards in 2014, according to the Environmental Protection... 

A new study carried out by the researchers in England has released the name of 20 cities which are at the highest risk of damaging floods. Scientists at the University of Southampton listed the cities that face the worst damage from floods and giant storms. The report illustrates that nearly all of them are in Asia and North America, five of them are in the United States, according to Live Science. The...