Tag: china

September 21, 2015 at 8:36 am

Incredible Timelapse Shows Container Ship’s Journey from Vietnam to China

Incredible Timelapse Shows Container Ship's Journey from Vietnam to China

Toby Smith produced this unreal timelapse from 78,500 photos showing the journey of the ‘Gunhilde Maersk’, from Ho-Chi Minh, Vietnam to Ningbo, China.

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August 13, 2015 at 12:05 am

Eyewitness Captures Chilling Blast in Tianjin as Shipment of Explosives Goes Up in Flames

Eyewitness Captures Chilling Blast in Tianjin as Shipment of Explosives Goes Up in Flames

An eyewitness captured the deadly blast that struck the northern China port city of Tianjin earlier today.

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June 11, 2015 at 6:06 pm

There’s an Abandoned Village in China Being Overtaken by Nature

There's an Abandoned Village in China Being Overtaken by Nature

A fishing village is abandoned when the fishers move mainland due to the ease of transport and sale for their daily catches.

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May 14, 2015 at 5:19 pm

A “Backwards” Walking Tour of Shanghai Played in Reverse

A "Backwards" Walking Tour of Shanghai Played in Reverse

JT Singh (featured previously) is back with another amazing city tour, this time a “backwards” walking tour of Shanghai, China. By filming himself walking backwards and playing the footage in reverse it looks like everyone is walking away from Singh in this creative tour of the bustling metropolis.

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May 9, 2015 at 2:29 pm

The Daredevils that Scaled Shanghai Tower are Back with an Equally Crazy Climb

The Daredevils that Scaled Shanghai Tower are Back with an Equally Crazy Climb

When Vadim Makhorov and Vitaliy Raskalov scaled the Shanghai Tower last year (see here and here) the Internet went nuts (the video alone has been viewed over 41 million times). The notoriety inspired them to attempt an equally crazy climb of the Ping An Finance Centre in Shenzhen, China. When complete it will be…

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March 27, 2015 at 6:47 pm

Picture of the Day: Northern Guangxi Province, China

Picture of the Day: Northern Guangxi Province, China

Photograph by Trey Ratcliff | StuckinCustoms.com In this jaw-dropping panoramic by Trey Ratcliff, we see the incredible landscape of the northern region of Guangxi, just to the south of the Guizhou and Hunan provinces of China. In a post on Google+, Ratcliff explains: “It was a muggy day, the sort where you feel your…

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February 27, 2015 at 9:31 am

Picture of the Day: Rice Terraces from Above

Picture of the Day: Rice Terraces from Above

Photograph by Jialiang Gao | http://www.peace-on-earth.org In this breathtaking aerial photograph by Jialiang Gao, we see the amazing terraced rice terraces of Yunnan, China. Yunnan’s Yuanyang County is a popular destination with photographers due to the vast areas of nearby mountains which have been cultivated into terraced rice paddies for at least the past…

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February 18, 2015 at 2:53 pm

There’s a Speakeasy in Shanghai Hidden Behind This Old Coke Machine

There's a Speakeasy in Shanghai Hidden Behind This Old Coke Machine

Situated in the former French Concession area of Shanghai you will find a nondescript sandwich shop called, The Press. There’s not much to the place aside from a neon sign with a whimsical epithet and an old Coca-Cola machine in the corner… Alberto Caiola, the designer of The Press adds: At first glance,…

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December 1, 2014 at 6:05 pm

Chinese Millionaire Returns to Village, Builds Residents Free Luxury Homes for their Kindness Growing Up

Chinese Millionaire Returns to Village, Builds Residents Free Luxury Homes for their Kindness Growing Up

Millionaire Chinese businessman Xiong Shuihua returned to his childhood village of Xiongkeng to do something special for the residents that treated him and his family so well growing up. The 54-year-old business tycoon—who amassed millions from the construction and steel industries—returned to his village and bulldozed wooden huts and muddy roads, replacing…

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June 19, 2014 at 6:20 pm

Picture of the Day: Five Fingers Peak

Picture of the Day: Five Fingers Peak

FIVE FINGERS PEAK Photograph by chensiyuan on Wikimedia Commons Seen here is the famous Five Fingers Peak of Huangshizhai, located in the Wulingyuan Scenic and Historic Interest Area, a UNESCO World Heritage Site in China since 1992. Wulingyuan is noted for its more than 3,000 quartzite sandstone pillars and peaks across most…

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