As the green light flashed, the cabin door opened and Liu Kang moved forward to sit at the edge of the door with his tandem master. Everyone was pretty scared, but they stepped out of the plane after someone behind Liu shouted " embrace the fear." With a 60-second free fall from 4,500 meters high at a speed of 200 km/hour, an amazing world with spectacular views of lakes and snow mountains surrounded him.
As the green light flashed, the cabin door opened and Liu Kang moved forward to sit at the edge of the door with his tandem master. Everyone was pretty scared, but they stepped out of the plane after someone behind Liu shouted " embrace the fear." With a 60-second free fall from 4,500 meters high at a speed of 200 km/hour, an amazing world with spectacular views of lakes and snow mountains surrounded him.
Australian universities will provide more postgraduate and sub-bachelor student places, especially for people undertaking diplomas of language and postgraduate nursing and allied health specialities to support Australia's ageing population, Minister for Education Christopher Pyne announced Friday.
After China announced its decision to relax the one-child policy, heated discussion and controversy have broken out across the country. The new policy will allow couples to have two children if one of them is an only child.
Bitcoin investors in China might have passed the most restless two nights of their lives as the virtual currency price rose from a little over 3,000 yuan (492.3 U.S. dollars) to nearly 7,000 and dropped back to 3,500 yuan from Tuesday to Wednesday on the country's biggest trading platform.
Bitcoin investors in China might have passed the most restless two nights of their lives as the virtual currency price rose from a little over 3,000 yuan (492.3 U.S. dollars) to nearly 7,000 and dropped back to 3,500 yuan from Tuesday to Wednesday on the country's biggest trading platform.
Europe's largest Chinese-language film festival has begun in London for its fifth year. The hope is to make British audiences more familiar with Chinese films and esthetics. It runs for six days until Sunday. Let's check it out.
Bringing ousted Islamist president Mohamed Morsi to trial on Monday may not help rid Egypt of social unrest because of the gap between pro- and anti-Morsi camps.
Subway stations in Portugal's capital Lisbon were closed on Thursday as metro workers in the city started a 24-hour strike against the government's new austerity measures enshrined in the 2014 state budget.
Vietnam Airlines, the national flag carrier, has signed a deal with General Electric Aviation, a subsidiary of the GE Corporation, to buy 40 GEnx jet engines for its fleet of Boeing 787 Dreamliners.
An on-going photo exhibition - Photo Beijing 2013, has attracted the participation of hundreds of photographers from across the world.
Wenzhou, a manufacturing hub in east China's Zhejiang Province, has applied to the State Council to begin piloting private banks, the China Securities Journal reported on Thursday.
A study conducted in the UK showed that men are more obedient to women at six pm. A scholar said the study makes scientific sense, yet still flawed to a certain extent
Severe droughts that happen once every 20 years will affect New Zealand once every two to five years by the year 2100 and the country's Pacific neighbors will need help to deal with the impacts of climate change, a leading New Zealand climate scientist warned Wednesday.
Making eye contact, long considered an effective way of persuasion, might be counterproductive when the listeners already disagree, according to a new study.
China's first tourism law, in aiming to upgrade the country's tourism industry, has caused travel agencies to raise prices, spurring more Chinese to become independent travelers.
The kinds of delicacies once enjoyed by residents along the ancient Silk Road have been recreated in northwest China’s GansuProvince. And it’s all thanks to joint efforts by historians and chefs.
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