Yangzhou Television viewers were left confused by a March 32 weather report. It seemed to be a joke about the imminent April Fools’ Day, but the station later corrected it as a serious mistake.
A waterspout, which is a meteorological phenomenon that causes a funnel-shaped cloud to form above a body of water, appeared over the Hongze Lake in Huaian City, Jiangsu Province on Aug. 26.
A Taiwanese man detained by Chinese security forces for nearly two months said that Chinese police put him under intense psychological pressure and forced him to plead guilty to crimes he did not commit.
A protest in Qidong, China, saw a mayor stripped of his shirt, as residents tried to shut down a planned industrial project that they said was pollutive.