Silk Road odyssey

TWO Irish adventurers arrived in Shanghai on Thursday, 292 days after they set off from Istanbul on a 16,000-kilometer Silk Road expedition. David Burns and Maghnus Collins left Istanbul on March 28 to cycle, run and raft along the Silk Road. Their adventure to Shanghai supported a charity program.

Sick chickens

FOOD authorities in Henan Province on Wednesday ordered an investigation into a poultry company that reportedly bought sick and dead chickens from farms, then resold the sick birds to fast food restaurants including KFC and McDonald’s and processed the dead ones into animal feed.

Officials with Doyoo Group, one of China’s largest suppliers to KFC and McDonald’s, said the company handled dead chickens according to national regulations.

Accident kills 7

AT least seven people were killed and another 20 injured in a vehicle collision in Henan Province on Thursday. The accident happened when two passenger buses collided in Zhengzhou. The injured have been sent to local hospitals. An investigation into the cause of the accident is under way.

HK man charged

A HONG KONG man has been charged with smuggling sensitive military lasers stolen from U.S. Army bases back into the United States.

It is not clear how Andy Leung Kwok-kuen, 38, got hold of the lasers, which pinpoint a target when attached to a firearm, because they are manufactured and sold under exclusive contracts to the U.S. military or law enforcement agencies.

Leung, who lives in Hong Kong, was arrested at San Francisco International Airport on Monday and appeared in court in California. The case was then moved to New York.