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Chinese netizens pokes fun at proposed new train station’s ‘sanitary pad’ design

Subscribe to our YouTube channel for free here: https://sc.mp/subscribe-youtube Read more on this: https://sc.mp/qwcgj The design proposed for a new train station in China’s city of Nanjing has been approved recently, but Chinese netizens have taken to social media to poke fun at its resemblance to a sanitary pad. The image has drawn millions of views since it was posted on 21, March 2024. Construction…

The thousands of homeless children trying to eke out a living in India's railway stations

Subscribe to our YouTube channel for free here: https://sc.mp/subscribe-youtube Arjun recalls going to fetch water at a railway station when the train his parents were on suddenly departed. He never saw them again. More than 50,000 children went missing in India in 2020, according to the nation’s National Crime Records Bureau. Some were unexpectedly separated from their parents, others were abandoned or are runaways. Arjun…

Chinese ‘overseas service stations’ under scrutiny after claims they are illegal police stations

Subscribe to our YouTube channel for free here: https://sc.mp/subscribe-youtube Dutch police are investigating reports by a Spanish rights group that Chinese police centres are operating illegally in the Netherlands, using them as a base to intimidate critics of Beijing. But speaking to journalists on October 27, 2022, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Mao Ning described the facilities as overseas centres offering consular and administrative assistance for…

China accused of illegal police stations in the Netherlands – BBC News

The Chinese government has been accused of establishing at least two undeclared “police stations” in the Netherlands. Dutch media found evidence that the “overseas service stations”, which promise to provide diplomatic services, are being used to try to silence Chinese dissidents in Europe. A spokeswoman for the Dutch foreign ministry said the existence of the unofficial police outposts was illegal. The Chinese foreign ministry has…

The story behind Hong Kong's colourful MTR stations

Subscribe to our YouTube channel for free here: https://sc.mp/subscribe-youtube Hong Kong’s 99 metro stations are all identified by their own individual colour scheme. The idea was originally meant to help illiterate travellers find their stops, according to Andrew Mead, the chief architect of the city’s Mass Transit Railway system better known as the MTR. The colours of each station are derived from the surrounding environment,…

Fresh Russian missile strikes hit power stations in western Ukraine – BBC News

Russia has launched fresh attacks on the Ukrainian city of Lviv, striking three power stations and causing electrical blackouts, the mayor said. Six railway stations were also hit, in the first strikes in the west of the country in more than a week. Mayor Andriy Sadovyi said some medical facilities were without power and there were interruptions to water supplies in parts of the city….

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