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Want To Ride The Expedition Of The New Titanic Replica Ship?
Well at least this one probably won’t sink. China is building a life-size replica of the doomed RMS…
China’s Elevated Bus: Future Concepts Of The Past Made Into Reality Today
Traffic — one of the major consequences of living in the big city. It’s the number one cause…
World’s Largest Air Purifier vs China’s Smog
Looking at most products being sold in the market today, chances are, you will read the label “Made…
How Modern Luxury Meets Traditional Sensibilities
Looking at the image above, one would think it came off of a sci-fi movie or a very…
How Our Future Car-Free Cities Will Be Spirit(ual)
You go out of your house. Going to work, off to the store to buy something or simply…
Watchful & Historic Fort, Amazingly In The Middle Of The Sea
The city of Saint Petersburg at the head of the Gulf of Finland on the Baltic Sea, was…
A Bus For Cars? Hmmm… A Cleaner Future From Ideas Past
First dreamed up in 1969, the bus may help Chinese cities ease traffic and curb air pollution. Car…
A Peek Into Imagining China Without The Crowds
A photographer’s solo journey led to an uniquely beautiful take on the country’s landscapes. Type “street in Hong…
Will 2016 Be On The Edge For The Global Economy?
As oil prices fall further, China slows and Brazil risks collapse, cracks will be papered over and the…
Top 13 Essential Beijing Experiences
For most travelers, a visit to Beijing evokes visions of The Great Wall of China. It’s what the…
Looking For Fresh City Air? Discover Here Where Not To Be.
Outdoor air pollution kills 3.3 million people, mostly in cities, every year. That’s more than HIV, malaria and…
$14.3 Billion In A Day : Alibaba’s Singles’ Day Stats
“Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. logged a record 91.2 billion yuan ($14.3 billion) in sales on Singles’ Day, turning…
A Tour Of China’s Biggest Online Shopping Day, Singles’ Day
We’re only a few days away from the world’s biggest shopping bonanza, when hundreds of millions of people…
Humanity’s Biggest Ear To The Universe Is Made In … China
“Humanity’s biggest ear to the universe is made in … Where else?” China is building the world’s biggest…
Driverless Buses, Coming Soon, Also Made In China
Notice anything odd about this bus tooling along a highway in China’s Henan Province? Look again. The dude…
Saving China’s Shopping Centres, One Smart Mall At A Time
In the past year, nearly half of the world’s new shopping malls were built in China – yet…
Understand China’s Current Economy In 6 Charts
Has the China bubble finally burst? China’s major stock indexes extended its loss to a fourth straight day,…
Designing Private Cities, Open to All
The world is building more cities, faster than ever before. China used more cement in the last three…
How 3D-Printing Cities Can Be The Future
Hailed as a housing solution for slums and a rapid response to disaster-stricken communities, 3D-printed architecture holds a…
Big Data Could Help Cities On Climate Change
With last year’s U.S.-China Climate Accord came a new focus on municipal sustainability. Yes, power plants and national…
Declining Walkability Plays Big Role In China’s Obesity Problem
But it’s the middle class, not the poor who may pay the biggest price. In China’s…
Rushing To Nepal To Help? Read First.
You may want to help victims of the earthquake, but they don’t need unskilled volunteers or aid they…
NEPAL EARTHQUAKE : WHERE TO DONATE
A list of some of the groups soliciting donations for relief efforts in Nepal: American Jewish World Service: ajws.org…
In An Already Troubled Nepal, Despair Emerges
Her home and village near the earthquake’s epicenter were destroyed, her grandfather was killed, and no one from…
Nepal Earthquake Poses Challenge To International Aid Agencies
International aid agencies and governments mobilized on Sunday to respond to the earthquake in Nepal, saying they faced…
Death Toll Rises Above 3000
At least 3,326 people are now known to have died in a massive earthquake which hit Nepal on…
The Fallen Historic Landmarks Of Nepal
When the earthquake hit, many of Nepal’s most renowned pagodas in and around Kathmandu crumbled into rubble-covered stumps.…
Incredible Stress And Challenges For Rescue Heroes
Nepal’s disaster responders in Saturday’s magnitude-7.8 earthquake have quickly become unsung heroes. Aid agencies and the United Nations…
Not Prepared Enough For Realities In Nepal
In a tragic echo of the catastrophic events in Haiti in 2010, a powerful earthquake struck one of…
Nepal Quake Was A Nightmare Waiting To Happen
Major earthquakes hit Nepal on 75-year cycle, but poverty, crowded populations and poor construction mean death tolls will…
Suffocating Under The Dome Of China’s Air Pollution
A film criticising Beijing’s pollution record has logged millions of views, and the government now appears to be…
The Dystopian Lake Filled By The World’s Tech Lust
Hidden in an unknown corner of Inner Mongolia is a toxic, nightmarish lake created by our thirst for…
How Is China Transforming Its Cities?
China is showing the rest of the world how to expand and transform its cities. The speed and…
5 Things To Know About Doing Business In Shenzhen
China is not the centre of the tech world, but with a manufacturing and consumer electronics powerhouse like Shenzhen,…
Beijing To Add Four More Metro Lines
Officials in Beijing have laid out plans to continue their program of rapid expansion of the Chinese capital’s…
China’s Pearl River Delta Overtakes Tokyo As World’s Largest Megacity
Several hundred million more people are expected to move to cities in East Asia over the next 20…
China’s Obsession With Vertical Cities
By the end of next year one-in-three of the world’s 100m+ skyscrapers will be in China, as its…
City Agriculture, China’s Urban Farms and Gardens
For centuries, the Chinese have referred to the fertile region around Chengdu, capital of Sichuan province in southwestern…
World’s Biggest Cities Become Even Bigger
The world’s mega-cities are merging to form vast “mega-regions” which may stretch hundreds of kilometres across countries and…