Deadly gas explosion on road in China - Oct 8, 2012 (Video)

A huge gas explosion with a radius of more than 0.5 km in central China has killed at least 20 people, state media say.

The blast occurred beside a tunnel on the road linking Yanling and Rucheng in Zhuzhou city in Hunan province.

It took place after a truck overturned on the road.





Source: tom ahawk jing moco

Yangtze River Turns Blood Red in Chongqing, China (Video) - Sept 8, 2012

Residents in China's southwestern mega city of Chongqing have been puzzled by this strange sight this week.

This image of the Yangtze River, the longest in China, have been surfacing since Wednesday. This stretch of the river around Chongqing looks like it's been dyed blood red.

Locals suspect that sever pollution is the cause, but Chongqing's Environmental Protect Bureau has another explanation—sand. Official reports are saying that flooding upstream washed excess sand downstream, turning the river bright red.

The Bureau also made a point of saying they did not find any evidence of illegal sewage dumping, but netizens have been questioning the official announcement.

Investigations are ongoing.

The second half of the next video onward is all footage of the river. "Yesterday's shallow 5.6 magnitude quakes struck an impoverished, mountainous part of the country with poor infrastructure and telecommunications and the death toll could rise as news trickles out of cut-off areas, it said.

Most of the victims were from Yiliang county in Yunnan province, near the epicentre.

Footage from state broadcaster CCTV showed boulder-covered roadways, abandoned cars and black smoke billowing from buildings.



Source: sheilaaliens ntdtv

Huge Sea Monsters Invade Kanas Lake, China? 2012

Witnesses claim they captured pictures of "water monsters" creating waves in China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region Thursday morning.

A worker at the Kanas Lake Scenic Zone, along with his colleagues and other tourists, were on a cloud-sightseeing visit when they noticed a swift-moving creature in the lake. That's when the group started recording.

The group described the sighting as "conspicuous white spots" swimming at a high speed in several directions. It's hard to make out the exact object in the amateur video, which shows a stream of white waves moving at a fast pace. The wave patterns are very strange indeed...



Source: stephenhannardADGUK

UFO Observes Shenzhou-9 Launch 2012

During the launch of the Shenzhou-9, an unknown object observes China's manned spacecraft.

Shenzhou 9 is a manned spacecraft flight of China's Shenzhou program, launched at 10:37:24 (UTC), 16 June 2012. Shenzhou 9 is the second spacecraft and first manned spacecraft to have docked with the Tiangong 1 space station, which took place on 18 June. The mission's crew includes the first Chinese female astronaut, Liu Yang.



Source: stephenhannardADGUK

Multicolored UFO Lights in Shanghai causing a crowd on the street. June 2012

Unknown multicolored UFO lights in the sky above Shanghai in China.



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Genetically modified 'pink' pig monster terrifies Chinese City

Xinxiang is close to several scientific research centres and a local medical school - and locals became convinced the creature was an experiment gone wrong, on the run from a nearby lab.

One witness said: ‘The pink skin makes it look just like pig gone wrong in some sort of genetic experiment.’

Xinxiang is close to several scientific research centres and a local medical school - and locals became convinced the creature was an experiment gone wrong, on the run from a nearby lab

One witness said: 'The pink skin makes it look just like pig gone wrong in some sort of genetic experiment'

But police say the dog is actually a pedigree breed called a Chinese crested hairless dog is a pet - and expensive.

‘It is definitely a dog, and quite an expensive one at that,’ said a spokesman.

The bizarre breed with just tufts of hair on its head and tail and a bare, spotted body regularly features as a contender in the World's Ugliest Dog contest.

Source: disclosetv hairlesschiwawa

Marco Polo was not a swindler: he really did go to China

A thorough new study of Chinese sources by University of Tübingen Sinologist Hans Ulrich Vogel dispels claims that Venice's most famous traveler never truly went as far as China.

It has been said that Marco Polo did not really go to China; that he merely cobbled together his information about it from journeys to the Black Sea, Constantinople and Persia and from talking to merchants and reading now-lost Persian books. But in Marco Polo was in China: New Evidence from Currencies, Salts and Revenues, (Brill Verlag) Hans Ulrich Vogel, Professor of Chinese Studies at the University of Tübingen, puts paid to such rumors. He begins with a comprehensive review of the arguments for and against, and follows it up with evidence from relevant Chinese, Japanese, Italian, French, German and Spanish literature. The result is compelling: despite a few, well-known problems with Marco Polo's writings, they are supported by an overwhelming number of verified accounts about China containing unique information given over centuries.

Doubts have been raised since the mid-eighteenth century about Marco Polo's presence in China. Skeptics have pointed out that Marco Polo did not mention the Great Wall. Yet research in the East and the West have shown that the Great Wall as we know it is a product of the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) and that earlier earth walls had long since disintegrated and had lost the military role they played in the Mongol Empire. Another argument often used is that Marco, his father and his uncle are not mentioned in any Chinese document. However, this argument overestimates the frequency of documentation and the intentions of Chinese historiographers. Even Giovanni de Marignolli (1290-1357), an important papal envoy at the court of the Yuan rulers, is not mentioned in any Chinese sources nor his 32-man retinue, nor the name of the pope. Only the heavenly horse sent as tribute from the Kingdom of Franks in 1342 gets a mention.

Professor Vogel also examines an area so complex and which requires such a high level of historical expertise that it has largely been neglected Marco Polo's descriptions of currency, salt production and revenues from the salt monopoly. Vogel concludes that no other Western, Arab, or Persian observer reported in such accurate and unique detail about the currency situation in Mongol China. The Venetian traveler is the only one to describe precisely how paper for money was made from the bark of the mulberry tree (morusalba l.) He not only details the shape and size of the paper, he also describes the use of seals and the various denominations of paper money. He reports on the monopolizing of gold, silver, pearls and gems by the state which enforced a compulsory exchange for paper money and the punishment for counterfeiters, as well as the 3% exchange fee for worn-out notes and the widespread use of paper money in official and private transactions.

Marco Polo is also the only one among his contemporaries to explain that paper money was not in circulation in all parts of China. It was used primarily in the north and in the regions along the Yangtze, but not in Fujian and certainly not in Yunnan, where according to Polo, cowries, salt, gold and silver were the main currencies. This information is confirmed by Chinese sources and by archaeological evidence. Most of these sources were collated or translated long after Marco Polo's time so he could not have drawn on them. He could not read Chinese.

Marco Polo's description of salt production is also accurate and unique. He lists the most important salt production centers known to him: Changlu, Lianghuai, Liangzhe, and Yunnan, as well as the authorities administering them. His report of the methods used to make salt in Changlu checks out with Chinese documents of the Yuan era. Salt in the Venetian monopoly was produced in a different way. This and other information, the accuracy of which has not yet been fully appreciated, all indicate that Marco Polo really did serve the Great Khan. Chinese sources show that he was not the only young man to be taken under the wing of Kublai Khan (1215-1294) and entrusted with important tasks. Marco Polo's claims of the value of salt production for instance, that the revenues from Kinsay brought in 5.8 million saggi of gold annually can be checked against the exchange rate for paper money, bringing Professor Vogel to the conclusion that Polo knew what he was talking about. This book, based on work carried out in the DFG Research Training Group 596 Monies, Markets and Finance in China and East Asia, 1500-1900 provides ample evidence that Marco Polo did go to China.

Source: archaeologydaily