A Chinese startup has released its first soccer-playing humanoid robot, with the vision to win a robot soccer tournament in the mid-21st century.

Prolonged heavy rain, combined with multiple factors, led to the landslide that claimed 52 lives and injured 30 others on a Guangdong expressway in May of last year, a thorough investigation has found.

A deadly landslide on the Meizhou-Dapu Expressway in Guangdong Province on May 1, 2024, that killed 52 people and injured 30, was the result of a combination of intense rainfall, infrastructure weaknesses, and systemic failures, according to a government investigation released yesterday.

By running a steady-state long-pulse high-confinement plasma operation at 104 million degrees Celsius for 1,066 seconds, Chinese scientists achieved a new world record with a device known as the “artificial sun” Monday, according to the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS).

Dozens of people were killed after a fire ripped through a ski resort hotel in northwestern Türkiye on Tuesday, forcing desperate holidaymakers to leap from windows to escape from the flames and smoke.

Representatives from China and its five neighboring countries convened at a meeting in Southwest China on Tuesday to deliberate on the Lancang-Mekong Law Enforcement cooperation’s future steps.

Residents of two places on the Chinese mainland with strong ties with Taiwan have been given the green light for group tours to the island after almost five years of disruption.

The China Manned Space Agency (CMSA) unveiled logos on Monday for three key missions in China’s manned space program this year: the launches of the crewed spaceships Shenzhou-20 and Shenzhou-21, and the cargo craft Tianzhou-9.