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Weather tracker: Typhoon Saudel causes mass evacuations in south-east China

Torrential rain causes widespread damage; while north-west South Africa hit by thunderstorms and central-southern US faces oppressive heat

The Guardian - UK

Watch: Flash floods in China destroys 3-storey building in an instant; 2500 stranded inside school

Authorities closed schools and suspended ferry routes in eastern China's Fujian province on Thursday as Typhoon Saudel made its third landfall in the country, bringing heavy rain and triggering warnings of flash floods and landslides.

The Times of India

In 1999, local government of Fujian started low-budget robotics sport competitions for college teams, decades later Beijing's Robot Olympics is making global headlines. Investment, innovation to government policies - Here's what have gone behind the doors

Beijing's 2021 five-year blueprint for the robotics sector had promised subsidies, research tax breaks and financing, setting a goal for China to become “a global wellspring of robotics technology innovation.”

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Shanghai cancels 1,300 flights as Typhoon Dolphin hits China's eastern coast

Typhoon Dolphin made landfall on China's eastern coast Sunday evening. Over 300,000 people were preemptively relocated before the storm arrived. Shanghai's two major airports canceled more than 1,300 flights due to the typhoon. The storm brought heavy rains and strong winds to Zhejiang and Fujian provinces. Forecasters predict significant rainfall…

The Economic Times

Flight cancellations, evacuations in China as Typhoon Dolphin looms

Typhoon Dolphin is poised to strike China's eastern coast with heavy rains. Over one thousand flights have already been cancelled in Shanghai and Hangzhou. Authorities have issued a top-level red typhoon alert for affected provinces. Nearly one hundred thousand people were relocated from risky areas in Fujian province. Typhoon Dolphin…

The Economic Times

China cancels flights, issues evacuation orders as Typhoon Dolphin makes landfall

China's National Meteorological Centre on Sunday issued a red typhoon alert, its most severe warning, as Typhoon Dolphin made landfall in Yuhuan in the southeastern Zhejiang province. Flights in and out of China's densely populated eastern coast were cancelled and nearly 100,000 people were relocated to less risky areas, authorities…

France 24

A shoe factory fire that killed 28 highlights China's persisting worker safety risks

Authorities are investigating a blaze at a shoe factory in southeastern China's Fujian province that killed 28 people, raising renewed concern over worker safety

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Xi orders rescue and investigation after shoe factory fire kills at least 28 in China

More than 500 firefighters have been deployed for the search and rescue operation

The Independent UK

Why do some villages in China build circular homes: The remarkable story behind Fujian Tulou earthen fortresses

Seen from above, they resemble giant doughnuts carved into the landscape. From ground level, they look more like medieval fortresses than family homes. Their towering earthen walls, narrow entranceways and vast wooden interiors seem designed for defence rather than domestic life. Yet behind these imposing façades lies one of China's…

The Times of India

China’s newest aircraft carrier sails through the Taiwan Strait

China's newest and most powerful aircraft carrier, the Fujian, has sailed through the Taiwan Strait, according to Taiwan's Defense Ministry

The Independent UK

Xinhua Silk Road: SE China city opens up new space for garments, footwear trade via fashion, culture boosters

BEIJING, June 2, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Quanzhou, a coastal manufacturing hub of garments and footwear in southeast China's Fujian Province, is expanding trade in local sportswear and footwear through fashion and culture boosters. Nowadays, the city, where around one third of the national sports clothing is produced, boasts a vibrant,…

AAP

Energy Insider (May 7): China Launches First Green Electricity Project for Computing

Qinghai and Fujian provinces launch first cross-provincial green power trade, Geely’s core profit rises on export boom

Caixin Global

When young adults can’t afford independence, family expectations fill the gap — from China’s ‘leftover women’ to Canada’s pressured youth

I met Lufang Chen, a 30-year-old bank clerk based in the Fujian province of China, in 2016, after she had married a man she initially turned down years earlier. Although she preferred to remain single, and he was not her type anyway, she gave in to avoid the label “leftover…

The Conversation

‘Ferryman of the souls’: the man who helps Taiwan’s dead return home to China

Liu De-wen operates at a sensitive space in Taiwan’s history, as Beijing demands reunification with the island

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The Conversation

How China’s latest aircraft carrier will challenge western maritime dominance

China’s new Fujian aircraft carrier, unveiled recently by president Xi Jinping with great fanfare, has been hailed by Chinese state media as a major milestone in the country’s naval modernisation programme and a key development in the counry’s aspirations to become a maritime power.

The Independent UK

Xi attends launch of China’s state-of-the-art Fujian aircraft carrier

China’s latest addition means it has the second largest number of aircraft carriers in the world

The Guardian - UK

China’s latest aircraft carrier enters service to extend reach into high seas

Experts say hi-tech Fujian will help expand country’s military influence and reach farther beyond its own waters

Euronews

What we know about China's first domestically made aircraft carrier, the Fujian

Beijing commissioned its first home-built aircraft carrier, the Fujian, highlighting Beijing's push to modernise its military and contest US influence in the Indo-Pacific.

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The Independent UK

The Fujian: China’s new aircraft carrier with an electromagnetic catapult

The Fujian extends the range of China's navy

The Independent UK

China commissions new aircraft carrier, challenging US naval dominance

The ship significantly bolsters what is already the world’s largest navy

The Independent UK

China’s newest aircraft carrier Fujian sails through Taiwan Strait for first time

Sailing could serve as warning to US and others against support for Taiwan, though China plays down any such motive

The Independent UK

Typhoon Danas threatens China with flash floods after killing two people in Taiwan

Danas is forecast to bring between 100mm and 250mm of rainfall across a 650km stretch from Fuzhou in Fujian province to Hangzhou in Zhejiang, triggering flash flood warnings

The Conversation

China is struggling to control its provinces as they expand distant-water fishing

Since the late 2010s, China has shown increasing sensitivity to the environmental and socio-economic impacts of its distant-water fishing (DWF) growth, as well as the reputational harm partly inflicted by international environmental advocacy.

The Independent UK

China holds live-fire drills opposite Taiwan, a week after large-scale exercise

China is holding live-fire drills off the coast of its southern Fujian province that faces Taiwan

Al Jazeera

Typhoon Gaemi barrels towards China’s Fujian after sinking ship off Taiwan

Strong winds sink a Tanzania-flagged freighter off Taiwan coast, with crew missing and rescuers unable to access area.

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