Matching its strong debut in major markets around the world, Warner Bros'Wonder Womancharged out of the gates in China over the weekend, opening to a healthy $38 million.The Patty Jenkins-directed superhero picture received over 80,000 showings per day and accounted for about 34 percent of China's total screen share for the weekend. Approximately $4.5 million of the film's debut haul came from 401 Imax screens.The first major female superhero film since the disappointingCatwomanandEl

Archaeologists have discovered a temple - deemed to have been lost for nearly a millennium - in downtown Chengdu, capital of China's Sichuan province,We have excavated only a part of the temple's area, but already have a glimpse of its past glory, said Mr Yi Li, who led the excavation project.He said the excavation team has found the temple's foundation, ruins of surrounding buildings, wells, roads and ditches.During the excavation, archaeologists also found some 80 ancient tombs tha

A train that runs on virtual rails has been unveiled inChina.The Autonomous Rapid Transit (Art), which was unveiled in the city of Zhuzhou on 2 June,is around 30metres longand is fitted with sensors that detect the dimensions of the road. This enables the vehicle to follow routes without the need for metal rails, Feng Jianghua, a chief engineer behind the project, said according toXinhaunet.net.Each vehiclecan hold up to 307 passengers, and is said to navigate the streets easier than a bus while

Students at Beijing’s Yucai High Schoolhave to be very careful when playing football on the school’s well-maintained field. That’s because it has a 100-year-old tree growing smack in the middle of it, and keeping their eye on the ball too much can result in a painful collision.Building a football field around a tree sounds pretty stupid, but it’s not like the Chinese school had a choice. Yucai High School is reportedly surrounded by various historical buildings, and this was the only availab

Sportsnet and the CBC think they’ve struck it big when four million Canadians tune in to theStanley Cup playoffs.NBC was ecstatic to announce average viewership of five million for Monday’s Game 1 of the Cup final between Nashville and Pittsburgh, a 22 per cent increase over Pittsburgh-San Jose last year.But those numbers pale in comparison to the regular audience in China: 22 million.“We have a lot of people,” said Chinese broadcaster Wei Wu, who calls himself Marvin. “Viewership is not a

A special school for HIV students has caused controversy by arranging for 16 of its students to take the gaokao exam in separate classrooms from non-HIV students.The 16 students -- 11 boys and five girls -- will sit the gaokao, China's college entrance exam, on June 6-7 in two classroom-turned exam rooms at Linfen Red Ribbon School in northern China's Shanxi Province, the country's only school for HIV children.The students, aged 17 to 21, are the first group of high middle school gra

Apair of identical twins from Nanjing, already popular among Chinese netizens for their academic achievements, last month graduated from theHarvard Graduate School of Educationandshot to Internet fame again when they live-streamed their graduation ceremony.Sun Yutong and Sun Yumeng both received their master’s degrees last month, an event that more than 170,000 Internet users watched through Yumeng’s 26-minute clip posted online, according toSouth China Morning Post.Last year, the pair propell

A consortium of Chinese firms are set to take on Disneyland by opening an amusement park themed on Barcelona star Lionel Messi.The Messi Experience Park will have more than 20 attractions spread out over a site of more than 80,000 sq meters in Nanjing, eastern China.The park, which is set to open in early 2019, will use virtual and augmented reality technologies to offer football training clinics, entertainment activities and displays of Messi's career highlights.Launching the theme park dur

The newly completed Huangjuewan Overpass in Chongqing is designed to meet transport demand, and drivers will not lose their way with the help of road signs and navigation systems, according to an official with the Chongqing infrastructure construction department.The five-storied overpass in Nan'an district of Southwest China's Chongqing Municipality connects more than 20 ramps, and is believed to be the largest, most complicated and functional hub interchange in the country's southwe

Women in China prefer to date men who earn twice or thrice as much as themselves, a new survey by a Chinese dating website has revealed.The study, released by Zhenai.com, pulled the data from 6,289 profiles from its 100 million users before China's Valentine's Day, which was on May 20.Of those polled, 54.08 per cent of women felt men should earn twice that of them, compared with 36.36 per cent of men who felt the same way, Sina.com said in a report.Those who felt men should earn thrice t