AsiaWire This Tibetan medical student hikes up a snowy mountain every day so she can find enough phone signal to attend classes that are now being carried out online only because of the coronavirus outbreak. The 20-year-old named Silang Bazhen lives in a remote village in the city of Qamdo,…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWS7yj3OsN8&feature=youtu.be AsiaWire This stunning footage shows huge chunks of ice the size of cars being pushed ashore as a lake on the border between China and Russia melts two months earlier than usual. Footage of the freak natural phenomenon was captured on the shores of Xingkai Lake, which is in…
Picture Credtit: CEN/@ffarnoldstein.at An Austrian man responsible for preparing a frozen lake for an ice skating event has died after the car he was using broke through the surface and sank. The 68-year-old, who was not named for legal reasons, was using the car to prepare the surface of the…
Story By: Anastasia Smirnova, Sub Editor: Joseph Golder,Agency: Central European News Video Credit: CEN/@spasemgivotnixpriuta This is the moment a cute cat stuck to ice on a partially frozen Russian river is pulled to safety with a lasso by rescuers. The cute feline was spotted from the Naberezhnaya 1 Maya embankment in the city of Astrakhan…
Story By: John Feng, Sub-Editor: Joseph Golder, Agency: Asia Wire Report Video Credit: AsiaWire These stunning images seen more than eight million times online show ‘dream-like’ light pillars - dubbed China's Northern Lights - forming above the skyline of a frozen city. Footage from the city of Genhe, which is in Hulunbuir in China’s northern…
