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Video Of The Day: Getting To Know Guangzhou, China
Nov 26th, 2012 at 5:00PM:
For today's Video of the Day we're traveling to China, where this short video from Vimeo gives a glimpse of Guangzhou, the third largest city in the country. I like this video because it first offers an up close look at artists and other locals going about their day to day routine, and then really wows viewers with some dazzling time-lapse photography. Be sure to look out for the twisting ...
Largest mall in the world is a Chinese ghost town
Mar 2nd, 2011 at 11:00AM:
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While China recently announced 45 new airports due to booming travel growth, several of their development projects have been enormous duds. The New South China Mall is twice the size of Minnesota's Mall of America, but hovers at around a 1% occupancy. The rows of empty shops are piped with serene elevator music, and guards police the empty halls with ...
Top ten art museums you haven't been to
Jul 12th, 2010 at 9:30AM: If you wanna see inside someone's brain, stick 'em in an art museum and then leave them there for an hour. Some will feign interest for at least 10 minutes and then start looking for the bathroom. Others will politely wander or become transfixed by a certain wall and never leave, others will head straight to the gift shop to try on silly hats. Big or small, art museums offer the truest personality ...World's fastest train delayed, perp gets away
Jan 2nd, 2010 at 12:00PM: The world's fastest train may be able to top 200 miles per hour, but it can be stopped with a barrier not even three inches long. A rider who opted to disregard the rules lit up a cigarette on the train as it ran from Guangzhou to Wuhan in China, causing a delay of two and a half hours. To put the inconvenience in perspective, that's about how long it takes the train to complete its journey of ...China unveils world's fastest high-speed train
Dec 27th, 2009 at 8:30AM: The Chinese government opened a new high-speed railway yesterday that is the fastest in the world. The Wuguang Passenger Railway links Wuhan, the provincial capital of Hubei, with the port of Guangzhou. The train runs an average of 350 kilometers per hour (217mph) and makes the journey in less than three hours. The old train took ten.
In test runs the train has made 394 kph (245mph).
As you ...China covers suicide bridge in "butter," safety margarinally improved
Sep 16th, 2009 at 9:30AM: Does anyone know when April Fool's Day is celebrated in China? Because if this article isn't a result of some media hoax, then I've got a lot of unanswered questions...
According to China Daily & the UK's Metro Newspaper, Government officials in Guangzhou have ordered a 1,000ft long steel bridge to be covered in greasy fat, to prevent people from climbing on the structure. The bridge has a ..."Bizarre Foods" on the Travel Channel: Season 2, China
Apr 16th, 2008 at 11:35PM:
Location: Mostly Guangzhou, China, a city at the mouth of the Pearl River, about 100 miles northwest of Hong Kong. Until the 1980s, this city was called Canton and is the home of Cantonese style food. Because of its location, it's the largest trading post, thus has a vast assortment of things to eat and enormous markets for picking up ingredients. Andrew Zimmern pointed out that it also has the ...Transportation in China is not for the faint of heart
Jan 31st, 2008 at 11:40AM: I was looking the the images and videos from blizzard-crippled China this morning and it made me remember my 2004 trip there. Especially the photos from Guangzhou, China's major southern city... I remember that train station! It was packed with thousands of migrant workers then, so I can't even imagine what it must look like now, after hundreds of thousands of people have been stranded. (See ...
