China’s freezing northern city of Harbin is building what organizers say is the world’s largest Santa Claus ice sculpture. The giant Father Christmas, 160 meters (525ft) long and 24 meters high, centers on an enormous face of Father Christmas, complete with flowing beard and hat. Its huge size and unseasonably warm temperatures have made the [...]

A panda at a zoo in southern China attacked a student who snuck into its pen hoping for a cuddle with the endangered bear, state media said Saturday. The 20-year-old male student surnamed Liu jumped over the fence at the zoo in the tourist city of Guilin, ignoring warning signs not to, Xinhua news agency [...]

Sixteen members of a smuggling gang in China and Hong Kong have been arrested for rigging a 300-metre long cable to send contraband goods across the heavily-policed border, a newspaper reported Thursday. The gang had initially used a crossbow to shoot the cable across the fenced-off border between the two sides, before stringing it from [...]