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Guy Caught Incredible Footage of Terrifying Tianjin Blasts

Calif. native says explosions he witnessed were like a 'small nuclear bomb going off'

(Newser) - A California native who lives in Tianjin was trying to record the Perseid meteor shower when a series of massive explosions erupted Wednesday night, devastating the city , killing dozens, and injuring hundreds. Daniel Van Duren tells NBC News he and his girlfriend, Ying, witnessed what he says looked like "...

Trapped Firefighter Saved 32 Hours After Tianjin Blasts

Fire still smoldering as cause investigated

(Newser) - Some good news amid the devastation caused by Wednesday night's massive explosions in Tianjin : Rescuers have freed a 19-year-old firefighter who was trapped in wreckage for 32 hours after the enormous blasts shook a district in the Chinese city, the AP reports. At least 17 of his colleagues are...

This Is Tianjin After Huge Blasts

Daylight reveals scale of devastation

(Newser) - Many details are still unclear, and the Hong Kong Free Press reports that Chinese authorities are trying to tightly control media coverage, but aerial photos and drone footage show the apocalyptic scale of destruction after last night's massive explosions in Tianjin . The BBC reports that the blasts, which Chinese...

Dozens Dead, Hundreds Hurt in 'Massive' City Blast

Dozens of firefighters missing in Tianjin

(Newser) - Two explosions—one said to equal 21 tons of TNT—shook China's port city of Tianjin at 11:30pm local time today, killing at least 44 people and injuring hundreds more. Chinese state media says a shipment of explosives caused the blasts in a container terminal, BBC News reports,...

Currency War? Chinese Move Shakes World Markets

Country's economy may be in worse shape than thought

(Newser) - In a move that some analysts fear could be the start of a "global currency war," China's yuan dropped again today, dragging other Asian currencies down with it. Today's drop against the dollar was the second biggest since 1994, exceeded only by yesterday's , and the...

Chinese Imports Just Got Cheaper

Yuan devalued after trade slump

(Newser) - China devalued its tightly controlled currency today following a slump in trade, allowing the yuan's biggest one-day decline in a decade. The central bank says the "one-off depreciation" of 1.9% against the dollar, which follows signs of a weakening Chinese economy, is a move to make its...

China Snooping in Top US Officials' Emails Since 2010: NSA

And the intrusion is still happening, senior US intelligence official says

(Newser) - For those who've been wondering why such a big deal has been made about Hillary Clinton's private email server, this could add some context. A senior US intelligence official, as well as a "top-secret" NSA document from 2014, indicates that China has been reading the private emails...

Mother, Daughter Swept Out to Sea by Typhoon

Twin sister missing in Taiwan; so far, 6 people dead

(Newser) - A typhoon was pounding southeast China today, leaving more than a million homes without power after lashing Taiwan, where it downed trees, traffic lights, and power lines, and left six people dead and four missing. Among the dead from Typhoon Soudelor are an 8-year-old girl and her mother who were...

Kerry: China Needs to Quit Building Islands

He urges country to stop South China Sea reclamation

(Newser) - US Secretary of State John Kerry has urged China to end provocative land reclamation projects in the South China Sea and work out effective resolutions to territorial disputes with its smaller neighbors that have ratcheted up tensions in some of the world's busiest commercial sea lanes. Speaking at a...

Abandoned Baby Saved From Toilet Pipe

The newborn girl in now in stable condition at a hospital

(Newser) - Police are searching for the parents of a newborn baby found abandoned in a Chinese toilet on Sunday. Passersby heard cries from inside the toilet and alerted authorities. "The baby's head was pointing downward and her whole body had already fallen into the drain. We could only see...

China's Latest Factory Jobs Go to ... South Carolina?

Textile industry is increasingly coming back Stateside

(Newser) - China has long been a manufacturing superstar, but that trend is being reversed in one industry. Yarn production has become cheaper and more efficient in the US than China, and Chinese textile manufacturers are taking the unlikely step of opening factories in the States to capitalize on the opportunity. Keer,...

Another Terrible Escalator Accident Rattles China

Worker is now an amputee after latest tragedy

(Newser) - Another day, another devastating escalator accident in China. An employee at Longemont Shopping Mall in Shanghai's Changning district had his foot and part of his leg amputated after becoming trapped in an escalator on Saturday, according to the South China Morning Post . The worker, identified simply as Zhang, was...

Workers Warned Mother Who Was Swallowed by Escalator

But new footage shows employees didn't stop the escalator

(Newser) - You'd think that if you almost plummeted through an escalator panel that you'd immediately press the "STOP" button so no one else could get hurt. But in chilling footage from a China mall where a mom fell through such a panel to her death , two mall employees...

China Makes 'Exceptional' iPhone Factory Bust

Beijing operation employed hundreds

(Newser) - Is China getting serious about cracking down on fakes? Police in Beijing say they've shut down a factory that employed hundreds of people and ran six assembly lines creating fake iPhones for export, some of which reached the US, reports Reuters . Police say they acted on information from the...

House Full of Bodies Points to 'Prehistoric Disaster'

5K-year-old house found crammed with nearly a hundred corpses

(Newser) - You wouldn't expect to find 97 ancient bodies crammed inside a 5,000-year-old house—but that's exactly what researchers discovered at the Hamin Mangha site in northeastern China, LiveScience reports. The remains of middle-aged adults, young adults, and juveniles were found in various states, with some charred and...

Mom Saves Her Kid as She's Crushed to Death by Escalator

The incident happened this weekend in China

(Newser) - It's a gruesome way to go: A 30-year-old mother was killed in central China over the weekend when the metal floor panel that sat between the top of a mall escalator and the floor beyond gave way as she and her son exited the escalator. But as the woman,...

After 4 Years, This Man Has His Passport Back

Dissident artist posts image on social media he's supposedly banned from

(Newser) - Ai Weiwei announced on Instagram that he got his passport back today, four years after it was confiscated by Chinese authorities. The artist and government critic posted a photo of himself holding a Chinese passport with the caption, "Today, I got my passport." Ai was detained by...

China's Plan: Super City of 130M People

'Jing-Jin-Ji' will dwarf Tokyo, NYC

(Newser) - "Jing-Jin-Ji" is on the road to becoming a metropolis much like Tokyo, New York City, London, or Mexico City—except with many more people than all those cities put together. After years of trying to limit Beijing's population, the Chinese government is now working on integrating it with...

China Makes Arrests After Sex Video Goes Viral

Suspects could face life sentences

(Newser) - In another country, they might have become celebrities: A Chinese couple who appeared in a sex video that went viral have been arrested, along with at least three other people, according to state media. The footage was apparently filmed in a changing room of the Beijing flagship store of clothing...

Mom Didn't Want BMW Windows Smashed to Save Son

Social media comments are not sympathetic to her

(Newser) - A mother in China is getting a social-media lashing after her young son became trapped in her BMW and she reportedly wouldn't let rescuers smash the car's windows to save him, the Wall Street Journal reports. Per local media, firefighters responding to a call of a child locked...

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