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Seven Minutes From the Glacier: How an Ice Avalanche Destroyed China's Nepal Border Crossing

The mudslide that buried China's Gyirong border crossing with Nepal began as a glacial ice avalanche that surged 20 kilometers downhill in about seven minutes, the Ministry of Natural Resources said Thursday. As Nepal's flood death toll passes 350 with more than 900 missing, Wing Loong drones are circling the valley as flying phone towers.

A Nanjing graduate student kept being woken by her own twitching legs, and doctors traced the cause to years of surviving on snacks instead of meals — a warning that resonates with China's exam-squeezed young people.

A well-known writer was asked to give up his seat inside a Shanghai Starbucks for customers with dogs, triggering a national argument over the line between pet-friendly and pet-first, and a change in the store's policy.