A Chinese woman was awarded $460,800 after suing the US government for an incident in which she was brutally injured and arrested by a border guard during a visit to Niagara Falls. The agent mistakenly believed the tourist was associated with a drug suspect.Zhao Yan, a business owner and piano teacher from Tianjin, China was sightseeing at Niagara Falls in 2004. Her visit to the popular tourist attraction came after she had arrived in the US on a business visa to study the market for wood in Pen

SCORES of fearless men and women took part in a Chinese chili chomping challenge – while sitting in vats of red-hot peppers.The daredevil contestants stripped down to their shorts before leaping into the containers and trying to eat as much of the fiery food as they could manage in a minute.The competition is held very year in Changsha, Hunan Province of China and the current record stands at 15 raw chilis in 60 seconds.Most participants quit the contest due to the unbearable heat of just bitin

If you don’t like the regular watermelons, you can have a trip to southwestern China and try the tiny ones.The world’s smallest watermelons are now being grown in the city of Chungking.The mini watermelons measure around the same size of a coin.Expert tasters say that the new snack is sourer and tastes like tomatoes compared to regular watermelon. The so-called 'thumb watermelon' is originally from South America. It goes by the name of 'cucamelon', with its insides resembling a

Police in China have taken into custody a woman who reportedly wrapped her newborn baby girl in plastic bags and tried to courier her in an orphanage.The mother, identified only as Lou, called a courier to pick up the plastic bag, refusing to let him check what was packed inside.As the courier set on his way, he felt the package moving and heard some noises coming from inside, The Beijing Newsreported. When he opened the bag, he was shocked to find the live baby.The incident happened in Fuzhou i

The greatest show in sports entertainment is coming to China.WWE will launch the WWE Network in the world's most populous country for the first time after striking an exclusive deal with Suning Sports Media. Starting Aug. 18, the WWE Network will be available on Suning's PPTV platform as a subscription video-on-demand service that will include a raft of WWE content, all live pay-per-viewevents including the marqueepromotionsWrestlemaniaandSummerslam.PPTV, which has the China rights to UF

‘An army marches on its stomach’, as the old saying goes, and this has proven to be just as true for space exploration as it is for military combat, although astronauts do tend to just float around aimlessly instead of marching. A recent breakthrough by Chinese scientists made use of 3D printing technology to grow food in a micro-gravity environment, which will go some way towards ensuring that the astronauts on board the proposed Chinese Space Station won’t have to go hungry.Lettuce might no

China's equivalent of Google Maps has been discovered by authorities to have been helping users locate prostitutes and brothels listed as points of interest on the service.A state media investigation found that the mapping tool ofChinese internet giant Baidu, which is likened toGoogle, displayed a list of businesses that had paid to be on the service were actually shop fronts for sexual services. The South China Morning Postreportedthat local Chinese news outlet Daily Legal found that search

Wolf Warrior 2became the biggest grossing film ever at the Chinese box office after collecting a massive $571 million after 14 days.The action movie took the crown from Stephen Chow's fantasy phenomenonThe Mermaid, which earned $527 million during its theatrical run last year.Wolf Warrior 2also relegatedThe Fate of the Furious, the most successful Hollywood title in China ever, down to third place.Wolf Warrior 2started big with a $130 million debut, but it has really turned heads with its se

An expressway accident in China has killed at least 36 people and injured 13 Friday morning, according to Chinese media reports.The accident occurred in northwestern China's Shaanxi Province when a bus hit a wall in the Qinling tunnel on the Xi'an-Hanzhong Expressway, reportedCGTN.Xinhuareported the bus was traveling from Chengdu City, capital of southwest China's Sichuan Province, to Luoyang City, located in central China's Henan Province.According to the World Health Organizati

China's space agency is building a simulationMarsbase on Earth to prepare for amissionto the red planet and serve as a tourist attraction.The country's inhospitable desert on the Tibetan plateau, in the western Qinghai province, has been chosen as China's most Mars-like area.The Mars Village - as project chiefs are calling it - will be built in the Qaidam Basin, an area described as hyperarid because of how little rain falls there.But the area around the base is a rainbow of geograph