Takashi Rakuyama (left) plays in the Chinese Super League. Photo: CFP For Japanese football player Takashi Rakuyama, the decision to set up a training school for Chinese kids after ending his professional football career in 2013 came naturally. Rakuyama was the first Japanese soccer player to play in the Chinese Super League, and also the …
A handler trains a police dog in Hefei, East China’s Anhui Province.Photo: IC “I have had these dogs for 10 years, but to them, I’m their whole life,” said Bai Yan, a 56-year-old policeman in Hangzhou, East China’s Zhejiang Province. Over the past 13 years, Bai has raised 26 police dogs on his own. For …
People walk on a boulevard in Durban in South Africa. Photo: IC With his AK47 in hand, Chen Xiaohua rushed in search of the robbers. In this quiet suburb area near Durban, the third most populous city in South Africa, peace was suddenly disturbed when a man shot at Chen. Fortunately for him, the bulletproof …
Illustration: Luo Xuan/GT John Baker Photo: Courtesy of Mavenir Editor’s Note: China has ambitious plans for the upcoming 5G era. During the recently concluded Mobile World Congress (MWC) Shanghai, Asia’s largest mobile event, China Mobile, the world’s largest telecom carrier in terms of subscribers, said that it will start large-scale 5G trials in 2018 before …
Yang Guomei’s photographs of milu. Photo: Yang Guomei If there is anyone who is an authority on Père David’s deer, known in Chinese as milu, it has to be Yang Guomei. As the former county head of Dafeng, East China’s Jiangsu Province, he participated in the reintroduction to China of the near-extinct Père David’s deer …