According to scmp.com, a mainland tourist died in hospital on Tuesday morning, less than 24 hours after a woman plunged to her death from a public housing block and landed on him in Chai Wan. Xie Ziyang, 19, was declared dead in Pamela Youde Nethersole Eastern Hospital in Chai Wan at 6.45am on Tuesday. He was walking past Sui Shing House at Siu Sai Wan Estate when a 39-year-old woman plunged from the 26th floor public corridor of the building at about 2pm on Monday. Read article
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According to shanghaiist.com, a 20-year-old tourist from northeastern China was hospitalized after eating chuanr lamb skewers that were laced with rat poison. The man went out for a night of lamb-kabobs and drinks with his girlfriend and parents, and soon found himself hospitalized with “bruises the size of a sheet of paper.” Read article
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Channelnewsasia.com reported that, at least 47 people were killed and almost 300 injured when two shallow earthquakes struck northwest China early Monday, an official told AFP, as rescuers battled to reach survivors in the remote, mountainous area. “More than 21,000 buildings were severely damaged and more than 1,200 have collapsed,” said the official at the […]
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ABC News reports that one tourist was killed and 18 others were injured Sunday by falling rocks at a scenic site in northern China, the official Xinhua News Agency reported. Rocks that may have been loosened by recent heavy rains crashed through a cliff-side walkway and fell onto the heads of a group of tourists […]
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Al Jazeera reports that a loud explosion has been heard at Beijing airport Terminal-3, according to official Chinese news agency Xinhua. There was no word on casualties in the explosion that occurred around 6:30pm local time (10:30 GMT) near the international arrivals section. Read article
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Globaltimes.cn reports that eight people were killed and 19 others were injured after a tourist bus overturned and plunged into a valley in Yunnan Province on Sunday, local authorities said. Twenty-seven people were aboard the bus when it plummeted into a valley on Mengjing Road in the Dai Autonomous Prefecture of Xishuangbanna at 12:40 pm, […]
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According to warsawvoice.pl, a Polish climber Artur Hajzer has reportedly died while attempting the climb of Gasherbum I in the Karakoram range, on the Pakistani-Chinese border, Polish broadcaster TVN24 reported Tuesday. Hajzer’s fellow climber Marcin Kaczkan was found in the second base by Russian rescuers, who were part of the original expedition, a famous Polish […]
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Shanghaidaily.com reports that a tour guide who was accused of threatening to kill a sightseer while brandishing a pointed object in an effort to force tourists to buy more from a shop was detained yesterday on suspicion of beating others, Beijing’s tourism administration said. An initial investigation showed the 29-year-old man surnamed Meng doesn’t have […]
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According to dailymail.co.uk, a sightseeing bus has spontaneously combusted in China because of extreme summer temperatures, it is believed. The double decker tourist bus burst into flames in front of the Oriental Pearl Tower in Shanghai’s Pudong New Area, yesterday. It took firefighters around 30 minutes to put out the blaze but there were no […]
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As reported by Cnn.com, two people died after a Boeing 777 from South Korea crashed Saturday upon landing at San Francisco’s airport, sending up a huge fireball, shedding its tail and spinning before screeching to a stop. Asiana Airlines Flight 214 left Seoul’s Incheon International Airport earlier Saturday, according to FlightAware, a website that offers […]
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