A passenger ferry has been given a spectacular new lease of life having been transformed into a luxurious yacht complete with a New York loft-style interior, a cinema and what is claimed to be the largest single sofa in Hong Kong. And it’s on the market for £1.9million ($2.7million). The vessel, formerly called Golden Star, … Read more
A Boeing 777 airliner on Friday made an emergency landing in Moscow with engine problems, the operating airline said, six days after another model rained down engine debris over the United States. Russia’s state-owned Rossiya airline said the crew had registered the ‘incorrect operation of the engine control sensor’ on a cargo flight from Hong … Read more
A 24-year-old Chinese heiress is paying a record-breaking £130,000 a month to rent a five-bedroom townhouse in London’s Mayfair after seeing the property on a Channel 5 show. The unnamed student, rumoured to be the daughter of a billionaire, stumped up £3.1million upfront to secure to tenancy of Culross House, which is adjacent to Hyde Park … Read more
A 24-year-old Chinese heiress is paying a record-breaking £130,000 a month to rent a five-bedroom townhouse in London’s Mayfair after seeing the property on a Channel 5 show. The unnamed student, rumoured to be the daughter of a billionaire, stumped up £3.1million upfront to secure to tenancy of Culross House, which is adjacent to Hyde Park … Read more
A single-dose COVID-19 vaccine developed by Chinese firm CanSino Biologics and a team led by Beijing’s top military bio-warfare expert is reported to show 65.7 per cent efficacy in preventing symptomatic cases. The drug also demonstrated a 90.98 per cent success rate in stopping severe disease in an interim analysis of global trials, according to Pakistan’s health … Read more
A woman who was abandoned in Hong Kong before being adopted by a British couple has admitted she just wants to find relatives who ‘look and sound like her’ in ‘one of the toughest ever’ Long Lost Family searches. Claire Martin, 60, was nearly two-years-old when she arrived at Heathrow Airport from Hong Kong’s overcrowded orphanages in … Read more
A woman who was abandoned in Hong Kong before being adopted by a British couple has admitted she just wants to find relatives who ‘look and sound like her’ in ‘one of the toughest ever’ Long Lost Family searches. Claire Martin, 58, was nearly two-years-old when she arrived at Heathrow Airport from Hong Kong’s overcrowded orphanages in … Read more
A guest on the Antiques Roadshow last night was mocked for his rather unenthusiastic reaction after an expert revealed his Chinese table was worth up to £120,000. The episode saw Fiona Bruce and the team head to Culzean Castle in South Ayrshire, and the console was named one of the most expensive pieces of furniture … Read more
A guest on the Antiques Roadshow last night was mocked for his rather unenthusiastic reaction after an expert revealed his Chinese table was worth up to £120,000. The episode saw Fiona Bruce and the team head to Culzean Castle in South Ayrshire, and the console was named one of the most expensive pieces of furniture … Read more
President Joe Biden signaled he is looking to reset U.S.-China policy from the Trump administration, saying the two nations can avoid a conflict, even as he said Chinese President Xi Jinping as lacking a democratic ‘bone in his body.’ Biden said he didn’t mean the line as criticism – but he leveled as his administration … Read more