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This is why you have to walk up a few steps before taking the escalator down to the subway. Also, when you buy an underground parking spot, make SURE the entrance to the parking garage is several feet ABOVE street level.

from the SCMP on Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/scmp/videos/10156439874494820/

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from the SCMP on Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/scmp/videos/10156468904834820/

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According to the U.S. Joint Typhoon Warning Center, Maria rapidly intensified from a 70-mph tropical storm to a Category 5 equivalent super typhoon with 160-mph winds in the 24-hour period ending 8 p.m. EDT July 5.
 
While there are no direct measurements of tropical cyclone wind speeds in the western Pacific, this is one of the fastest tropical-storm-to-Category-5 intensification rates on record.

Typhoon Maria strikes China
South China Morning Post
about an hour ago ·

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Super Typhoon Maria pummelled Japan and Taiwan. It is now making landfall in eastern China.

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from the SCMP on Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/scmp/videos/10156471567139820/

Teslas are VERY popular in Hong Kong - China, not so much, although you do see one occasionally.

Tesla building plant in Shanghai, China
South China Morning Post
58 minutes ago ·
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Tesla is building its first gigafactory outside the US in Shanghai

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On 7/18/2018 at 12:18 PM, Randy W said:

from the SCMP on Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/scmp/videos/10156485421344820/

Most expensive Chinese movie ever made flops
South China Morning Post
about an hour ago ·
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China's most expensive film was pulled from cinemas after flopping at the box office.

I'll post this here, in case anyone's interested in reading more - this seems to say a lot for the Chinese movie-going public

How ‘Asura’’s record budget produced an epic box office flop

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A third of the film’s budget went to special effects and computer-generated imagery in 2,400 scenes throughout the movie’s 141-minute running time. Costumes by an Oscar-winning costume designer cost 30 million yuan, while fees for the cast took up 75 million yuan.

“It could not even tell a proper story,” Hu wrote on his Weibo blog site. “The producers just need to knock their heads against the wall” and reflect on what they’ve done, he wrote. “Millions of yuan just got wasted.”

The flop by China’s most expensive movie is a reminder that cinema patrons in the US$8.2 billion box office market are rapidly changing their tastes, and that Hollywood stardust may be coming off from multimillion dollar productions and blockbuster epics.

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from the People's Daily on Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/PeoplesDaily/videos/2017514754966998/

An amazing light show reproduces how Yellow Crane Tower was built from inner structure to exterior decoration
People's Daily, China
5 hours ago ·
 
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An amazing light show reproduces how Yellow Crane Tower was built from inner structure to exterior decoration in Wuhan, C China's Hubei Province; The tower dated back to AD223 is dubbed as the best of its kind along the Yangtze River

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Kind of a cutesy video about the Naxi characters you see around Lijiang - from China Daily on Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/chinadaily/videos/10156506782766291/

Dongba: world's only pictographic scrip system
China Daily
about an hour ago ·
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Dongba lettering is the world's only pictographic #script system still in use. Let's have a look at this unique written system of the Naxi ethnic group in Southwest China's #Yunnan province

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Richard S: This video was terribly made! You can't hear the conversation because the music is so loud. And we could hardly see his name written at the end at all.

 

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Of COURSE it's a good idea! - from China Daily on Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/chinadaily/videos/10156508407806291/

Artificial waterfall in SW China's Guiyang
China Daily
5 minutes ago ·
 
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Don't doubt your eyes! It's indeed an artificial #waterfall from a building in SW China's Guiyang city.

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