Father travels for a thousand miles to bring his kids homemade wooden stool

11:33, January 22, 2018

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  Chinese literature lovers to flock to Canary Islands

  Twenty-seven years after Taiwanese writer San Mao’s suicide, an archipelago off the coast of Morocco is mapping a pilgrimage route for Chinese readers who would travel thousands of miles to trace her footsteps.At an international travel fair in Madrid, the tourism authority of the Spanish-controlled Canary Islands announced that in March, it would open a route in memory of the

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  Chinese scientists find older dads lift odds of high myopia

  File Photo: VCGChinese scientists found that the older a father is, the higher the possibility his child will suffer from early- onset high myopia due to a mutation in a gene, according to a report on Friday's China Daily.It is the first causal gene that has been proven, through complete animal model tests, to lead to high myopia, nearsightedness of

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  Philippine volcano spews lava fountains, 40,000 people flee

  Mayon volcano erupts for the second straight day as lava cascades down its slopes Tuesday, Jan. 23, 2018 as seen from Legazpi city, Albay province, around 340 kilometers (200 miles) southeast of Manila, Philippines. The Philippines’ most active volcano ejected a huge column of lava fragments, ash and smoke in another thunderous explosion at dawn Tuesday, sending thousands of villagers