A woman has been fined 200 yuan (US$30) and detained for 10 days after she repeatedly slapped a male staff member at an airport in northeastern China because her flight was cancelled.An onlooker filmed the passenger in her 40s, surnamed Li, taking her frustration out on the man at the Shenyang Taoxian International Airport in Liaoning province on Thursday, Beijing News reported.The video shows Li grabbing the man’s arm with her left hand over the counter while she slaps his head with her right

A middle-aged woman went to extraordinary lengths to avoid paying her multi-million debts by undergoing plastic surgery to dramatically alter her appearance before she fled across the country on a high speed train paid for with ‘borrowed’ money.Zhu Najuan, 59, had been ordered by a court in Wuhan, central China, to pay off her huge debts which amounted to a total of 25 million yuan ($3.71 million).Instead, she opted to dramatically alter her appearance and start a new life in the city of Shenz

At least 10 people were killed after a flood hit China's northwestern Shaanxi province, local authorities said on Saturday.Heavy rains hit Yulin City in northern Shaanxi from Tuesday night and caused floods in a number of areas.More than 71,300 people were forced to evacuate, the provincial flood control headquarters said.Power supplies and telecommunications were also disrupted.By Saturday, the provincial government has allocated 50 million yuan (about $7.3 million) to carry out rescue oper

source: upi.comVirtual-private network, or VPN, applications have been removed from Apple's Chinese app store. Foreign companies had developed the apps to get around China's Internet filters.British Virgin Islands-based app developer, ExpressVPN,shared a letterit received from Apple stating the application was removed from the China app store because it includes content that is illegal in China.We're disappointed in this development, as it represents the most drastic measure the Chin

Beijing is the smartest city in China, according to a report on the cashless society released on 31, July.The report, jointly published by Chinese tech giant Tencent, the Chongyang Institute for Financial Studies, and French market research firm Ipsos, used indexes like transportation, education, shopping and food delivery to measure smart cities level in 324 Chinese cities.Overall, Beijing ranked first in the penetration of a cashless society, followed by Shenzhen, Guangzhou and Shanghai,Xinhua

Authorities in China are exploring predictive analytics, facial recognition, and otherartificial intelligence(AI) technologies to help prevent crime in advance. Based on behavior patterns, authorities will notify local police about potential offenders.Cloud Walk, a company headquartered in Guangzhou, has been training its facial recognition and big data rating systems to track movements based on risk levels. Those who are frequent visitors to weapons shops or transportation hubs are likely to be

Apple's difficulty in garnering a larger share of the smartphone market in China has been looked at recently byThe Wall Street Journal, which described the ubiquitous mobile appWeChatas the iPhone's toughest rival in the country. Citing data from QuestMobile, on average WeChat is said to have captured nearly 35 percent of each user's monthly smartphone usage time, averaging about 1 billion monthly active users in total.The problem for Apple is that WeChat is an entire ecosystem, with

A HEATWAVE has driven Chinese tourists to seek sanctuary at a packed water park – and these extraordinary pictures show them having a whale of a time.Thousands of holidaymakers with rubber rings and inflatable whalespacked into the pool to cool off in a heatwave, which hit 32C today.Weeks of searing heat have driven sweltering city dwellers to the coast or to water parks, some of which feature wave machines.Hundreds of swimmers bobbing in colourful rubber rings compete for space in chaotic scen

Due to being five minutes late, a courier suffered permanent injuries after he was beaten by the woman he was delivering the package to.On July 28, Guo Junliang, who works for delivery giant ZTO Express, reportedly called a woman named Yan X. in Zhuzhou city, China, that he will be arriving with her package in two to three minutes but unfortunately did not arrive at the estimated time.The woman apparently had waited at the bottom of her building for him to arrive and through a video clip that we

Just a few days after Apple eliminated VPNs from the App Store in China, Amazon too has decided to comply with the country’s new internet censorship law, working via its partner in the region.A Chinese company called Beijing Sinnet Technology that operates Amazon Web Services there has emailed its local customers a letter advising them to cease any and all use of VPNs and other anonymization and encryption technologies that could allow them to get past the “Great Firewall” and connect to glob