https://www.scmp.com/rss/500635/feed en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com More than 10km (6.2 miles) from where China Eastern Airlines flight 5735 crashed, a farmer has found what he suspects to be a piece of aircraft debris, indicating the vast expanse of hilly terrain the search team must cover as they look for answers to why the plane plunged from the sky. Huang Jianyi said he found the piece of metal as he was weeding his paddy fields in the village of Siwang on Tuesday, a day after the Boeing 737-800 carrying 132 people crashed into a hillside in the Guangxi... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/3171854/china-eastern-flight-5735-suspected-debris-found-10km-crash-site-search?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/3171854/china-eastern-flight-5735-suspected-debris-found-10km-crash-site-search?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 25 Mar 2022 08:24:40 +0000 No survivors have so far been found after China Eastern Airlines flight MU5735 crashed on Monday in southern China with 132 passengers and crew on board. Thousands of firefighters and police were searching the area after the Boeing 737-800 plane crashed into a steep, heavily wooded site in Teng county, near the city of Wuzhou in Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region. State broadcaster CCTV reported that plane debris and personal belongings had been found in the area. The Civil Aviation Administration... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/3171351/china-eastern-airlines-flight-mu5735-rescue-efforts-yet-find-any?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/3171351/china-eastern-airlines-flight-mu5735-rescue-efforts-yet-find-any?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 22 Mar 2022 02:53:41 +0000 Baise in southwestern China ordered citywide mass coronavirus screening on Friday after reporting 33 more cases, bringing its total in this outbreak to 220 infections. The screenings began at noon and were set to cover all 12 counties and districts across Baise. The process was expected to be completed by the evening, according to the China News Service. Baise’s new cases accounted for more than half of the national tally of 56 reported on Friday, according to the National Health... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3166725/omicron-mass-screening-border-city-reports-over-half-chinas-new?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3166725/omicron-mass-screening-border-city-reports-over-half-chinas-new?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 11 Feb 2022 10:11:15 +0000 President Xi Jinping wrapped up his visit to Guangxi in southern China by evoking Communist Party history and urging the party’s rank-and-file to uphold the revolutionary spirit of the past when preparing for tough days ahead. While the president made no mention of the specific challenges the country faced, analysts said Xi was telling local members to have faith in the party by remembering events such as the Long March in the run up to its centenary celebrations on July 1. According to state... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3131326/xi-jinping-seeks-channel-chinese-communist-partys-revolutionary?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3131326/xi-jinping-seeks-channel-chinese-communist-partys-revolutionary?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 28 Apr 2021 00:00:25 +0000 Scientists throughout human history have been on a neverending search for the elixir of life, but most of them didn’t have to deal with social media.   More than 20 traditional Chinese medicine doctors in southwestern China are being investigated over a “longevity drink” they developed. They claimed it could help people live to be 120 years old. Health authorities in Binyang county, in the Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region, which borders Vietnam, said they would look into the case, Nanguo Morning... https://www.scmp.com/society/traditional-chinese-medicine-doctors-guangxi-are-investigated-developing-longevity-drink/article/3040528?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/society/traditional-chinese-medicine-doctors-guangxi-are-investigated-developing-longevity-drink/article/3040528?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 04 Dec 2019 11:21:49 +0000 In a remote town in southwest China’s Yunnan province, a team of researchers scrambles down slippery rocks into an abandoned Buddhists’ cave with only torchlights leading the way. Tiny leeches and microsnails glisten on the damp, green walls. This cave in the town of Menglun is part of a vast system of limestone caves called karsts, which spans across more than 300,000 square miles in Southeast Asia and China. The karsts are home to an untold number of unidentified animal and plant... https://www.scmp.com/travel/inside-chinas-caves-where-countless-animal-and-plant-species-could-go-extinct-theyre-discovered/article/3007545?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/travel/inside-chinas-caves-where-countless-animal-and-plant-species-could-go-extinct-theyre-discovered/article/3007545?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 24 Apr 2019 13:36:03 +0000 At 5:30 am, Rong Jinhua ties her apron behind her back and bends over a charcoal-fired stove in the small kitchen, checking that her gravy base for today’s bowls of Guilin rice noodles is slow-boiled to perfection. Rong runs a little one-room restaurant in Yangshuo, a county in the southern Chinese region of Guangxi. Each noodle shop’s gravy recipes are closely guarded secrets. Rong’s version boasts over 20 different ingredients and spices, ratios of which she has continuously tweaked since she... https://www.scmp.com/food/what-goes-20-ingredient-bowl-soft-rice-noodles/article/2156494?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/food/what-goes-20-ingredient-bowl-soft-rice-noodles/article/2156494?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 24 Jul 2018 08:45:00 +0000 The southern Chinese city of Yangshuo has transformed in recent years. Thanks to additional high-speed transport links opening up the scenic town, an influx of local and foreign tourists are flocking to the once-peaceful village for a glimpse of their iconic jade-colored karst peaks. The bullet train from Shenzhen, for example, cut a 13-hour overnight journey to just a three-hour ride. And while its surreal scenery remains some of the most serene and unspoiled in China, it’s Yangshuo's river... https://www.scmp.com/travel/yangshuo-looks-chinese-painting-and-you-can-get-there-bullet-train/article/2153079?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/travel/yangshuo-looks-chinese-painting-and-you-can-get-there-bullet-train/article/2153079?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 29 Jun 2018 08:00:30 +0000