The Cardinal

Dramatic video out of eastern China shows a lamppost smashing the windshield of a bus filled with passengers. The driver, who suffered a damaged spleen in the accident, steered the bus to the roadside where he led passengers to safety. A quick-thinking bus driver, Mao Zhihao, reacted fast when a light pole came crashing through [...]

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A truck laden with fireworks exploded on an elevated highway in central China, killing eight people and injuring 13. The force of the blast sent several vehicles plummeting off the road, destroying an 80-meter section of the highway. A fireworks explosion occurred during heavy fog on the Yihang bridge near the city of Sanmenxia in [...]

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Traffic surveillance video shows a semi-trailer truck rollover crash which hits a motorcycle. A motorcycle rider was lucky to survive while waiting at a pedestrian crossing for a stoplight in Eastern China. The truck turned over when the driver was making a turn at an intersection. No injuries were reported. Notice that the motorcyclist is [...]

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CCTV Video Surveillance captures explosion and shockwave that killed three firefighters and destroyed fire vehicles. A gas tanker that exploded killing three firefighters in central China on Saturday was still burning a day later, according to a Chinese state television report on Sunday. The tanker overturned on Saturday morning on the Changde-Jishou Expressway in Huaihua [...]

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Five Germans and a Chinese citizen were killed along with 14 injured when their bus burst into flames after hitting the back of a truck on an expressway near Tianjin in northern China, a Chinese state news agency reported. Five German citizens and a Chinese citizen were killed and 14 people were injured when a [...]

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A Chinese boy gave authorities in Hezhang Country a bit of a headache on Sunday – when he managed to get his head firmly lodged in a stone balustrade. He was freed using hydraulic spreading pliers. Hezhang County is a county of Guizhou, China. Guizhou is known as a southern region of China that Chinese [...]

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A girl riding an electric bicycle in Changshu City, China survives a collision with a fully loaded trailer truck Saturday after the driver ran a red light. A high school girl in Changshu City, Jiangsu Province, China was hit by a fully loaded truck in China on December 17, 2011. A surveillance video captured the [...]

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Video obtained by the website SportsGrid.com shows a bench-clearing brawl at an exhibition basketball game in Beijing between Georgetown University and China’s Bayi Rockets. The game was called with about nine and a half minutes remaining. The Georgetown men’s basketball team was playing a goodwill basketball game when it turned into a violent basketbrawl game [...]

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In China, a bride-to-be discovers some unsavory news about her fiancé , pushing her to the ledge of a building. But the quick work of rescue workers prevents the bride (in a wedding dress) from jumping. Miss Li, a 22-year-old college student was on the window ledge of an apartment building in Changchun city, as [...]

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Watermelons are exploding in fields in China, after farmers apparently misuse chemicals intended to accelerate the fruit’s growth. Now, crops are ruined. Danyang is located in southern Jiangsu Province with a total area of 1,059 km2 and a population of roughly 890,000. Businesses from 32 countries and regions have invested in Danyang with accumulated paid-up [...]

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A virus infecting mobile phones using Google’s Android operating system has emerged in China that can allow a hacker to gain access to personal data. Lookout Mobile Security reports the new Trojan affecting Android devices has been dubbed “Geinimi” and “can compromise a significant amount of personal data on a user?s phone and send it [...]

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The pollution in Beijing was so heavy Friday that the U.S. Embassy called the air quality “crazy bad.” Twitter posts showing Air Quality Index with values in from 462 to 500. Captured about 7:00 a.m. CST … Current table below. The Air Quality Index (AQI) (also known as the Air Pollution Index (API) or Pollutant [...]

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