https://www.scmp.com/rss/327314/feed en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com More than 500 workers in Zhangjiajie, central China’s Hunan province, took just three and a half hours to combine three separate railway lines. Working late at night, they combined the existing tracks to a new 210-mile high-speed rail line. When complete in 2019, the high-speed rail line will link the cities of Chongqing, Zhangjiajie and Changsha, cutting travel time along the route from 10 hours to just three. Infrastructure for high-speed trains, which are designed to travel at speeds of at... https://www.scmp.com/china/chinese-workers-link-railway-lines-35-hours/article/2155790?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/china/chinese-workers-link-railway-lines-35-hours/article/2155790?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 18 Jul 2018 09:45:45 +0000 When this car plunged into a river in southern China’s Guangdong province, two passengers found themselves trapped in a sinking prison. But passers-by came to the rescue. Two people jumped into the river to help right away, with one using a hammer to smash open the car window. Other pedestrians quickly came forward to pull the survivors back to dry land. Fortunately, no one was injured in what could have been a tragedy. The video went viral on Chinese social media, prompting many to say it had... https://www.scmp.com/society/last-wonton-passers-rescue-people-trapped-sinking-car/article/2155817?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/society/last-wonton-passers-rescue-people-trapped-sinking-car/article/2155817?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 18 Jul 2018 08:30:45 +0000 Trigger warning: This video isn’t for the squeamish. A huge live leech was extracted from a man’s nostril in Beihai, a city in China’s Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region, in the southwest of the country. The man’s nose had been bleeding for more than 10 days after he drank water in the mountains while working. https://www.scmp.com/china/last-wonton-huge-live-leech-pulled-out-mans-nostril-china/article/2150357?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/china/last-wonton-huge-live-leech-pulled-out-mans-nostril-china/article/2150357?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 12 Jun 2018 06:00:45 +0000