Bridge opens to traffic

The Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge, the world’s longest cross-sea bridge, opened to public traffic at 9 a.m. on October 24.

The 55-km-long bridge connects China’s southern mainland province of Guangdong with the country’s two special administrative regions of Hong Kong and Macao. Customs in Guangdong’s Zhuhai, Hong Kong and Macao offer round-the-clock services for customs clearance to manage traffic on the bridge.

Fatal crash

A bus with 15 passengers onboard suddenly veered* onto the wrong side of the road and collided into a private car before plunging into the Yangtze River on Sunday, police in Southwest China’s Chongqing said.

Three bodies had been retrieved from the river after the bus broke through road fencing and drove off a bridge into the Chongqing section of the Yangtze River, China’s longest waterway, at around 10 a.m. on Sunday in Wanzhou District. According to a preliminary investigation, the bus crossed over the line marking the center of the bridge and crashed into the car that was driving legally on the opposite side.

Academic fraud

A Tsinghua University Ph.D. student and his doctoral advisor had their respective degrees and job titles revoked* after at least 11 published papers authored by the pair were retracted from international academic journals for various misconduct, according to the school’s recent statement.

Initial reports uncovering potential problems in these published studies surfaced in March 2016, the statement said. However, it’s unclear whether the university disclosed the information previously.

Woman arrested

People’s Procuratorate of Bannan District in Chongqing Municipality on Sunday announced on its official Weibo account that a local woman, 39, surnamed Liu, was arrested on Saturday for attacking kindergarteners with a kitchen knife at around 9:30 a.m. at the gate of a kindergarten in Banan District on Friday morning.

All of the children who were stabbed during the attack have been receiving medical treatment and have no life-threatening injuries, according to a government statement. (SD-Agencies)