Disney's Shanghai theme park established last year is a tremendous success, logging more than 11 million visitors, the company's chairman has said.Attendance is better than ever imagined and the company looks forward to welcoming many more in the years to come, the Walt Disney company's chairman and CEO Bob Iger said at a ceremony held to mark the first anniversary of the Shanghai Disney Resort.The resort, located in the district of Pudong, consists of Shanghai Disneyland -- the them

A lady faces a major flight ban after deploying an emergency slide on an XiamenAir plane just minutes before take-off.The flight from Beijing Capital International Airport in China was severely delayed after the woman released the 100,000 yuan slide.Witnesses aboard the Boeing 757 said the female tourist – sitting two rows behind the left-side emergency door – could not curb her own curiosity and flipped the lever that caused the inflatable slide to shoot out onto the tarmac.She deployed the i

Chinese bike-sharing behemothMobikehas raised a chunky $600 million in a series E round of funding led by Tencent, with participation from Sequoia, TPG, and Hillhouse Capital, among others.This takes Mobike’s total financing to date to around $925 million, including a$215 million roundalso led by Tencent just six months ago, with participation from the Chinese affiliate arm of Silicon Valley’s Sequoia.Founded out of Shanghai in 2015, Mobike is available in dozens of cities across China, while

The United States is still well-known for its contributions to science, but it needs to make room at the top for other rising stars like China, according to arecent study.Researchers at the University of Michigan argue that American dominance is slowly shrinking. It's a conclusion they came to after analyzing 15 years of original papers published in six top-tier and four mid-tier scientific journals for biomedical research.From 2000 to 2015, the U.S. was ranked No. 1 for biomedical research

A STREET magician has reportedly been arrested on harassment charges after he used his tricks as an excuse to fondle women’s breasts in public.The suspect, whose name has not been reported, is said to have been caught after a bystander surnamed Yang spotted the inappropriate behaviour and announced a reward for his capture.It wasn’t long before locals in Chengdu, the capital of south-western China’s Sichuan Province, tracked down the magician, according to theChongqing Evening Post.The allege

ON A CLEARnight at the end of last year, a green dot appeared on the horizon near the Chinese-Myanmar border. “It was like a very bright green star,” says physicistChao-Yang Lu. Lu, a professor at the University of Science and Technology of China, saw it from an observing station on the outskirts of the Chinese city of Lijiang.He and his colleagues had to act fast. The green star was actually a laser, beamed from a satellite orbiting over 300 miles overhead, like a lighthouse beacon advertisin

SafeCharge, the leading payments technology company, today announced that it is partnering with Tencent Holdings, the leading provider of internet value added services in China, to add WeChat Pay, the booming payment service of the Chinese messaging giant and China’s most popular social media on its global payments platform.With more than 600 million monthly active user accounts in China at the end of December 2016, WeChat Pay is one of the most popular payment methods used by Chinese nationals

At least eight people were killed and at least 65people were woundedin an explosion at the front gate of a kindergarten in eastern China on Thursday, local authorities and Chinese media reported.The official Xinhua News Agency reported that eight people were still in critical condition, but that no children or teachers were among those killed.The blast struck the Chuangxin Kindergarten in Fengxian as relatives were picking up their children at the end of the school day at about 4:50 p.m. local t

China has launched its first X-ray space telescope, aimed at studying black holes, pulsars, and gamma ray bursts, state media reported. The launch is expected to bring new breakthroughs in physics, according to the project's lead scientist.The 2.5-tonne Hard X-ray Modulation Telescope (HXMT), named 'Insight,' was launched on Thursday morning from Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China's Gobi desert, Xinhuareported. It was delivered into orbit, 550km (341 miles) above

Adidas China has partnered with China’s Ministry of Education (MOE) and China Education Television (CETV) to launch an official TV series to teach young people football skills.The series, called “Daily Football” consists of 365 three minute episodes, which will air daily on China’s top educational TV channel, as well as online.The episodes will feature top youth football coach, and Adidas brand ambassador, Tom Byer providing step-by-step instructions on how to complete essential football mov