Chongqing landslide

A LANDSLIDE that occurred in Southwest China’s Chongqing Municipality at about 3 a.m. yesterday has left one person dead and six others missing, according to rescuers.

The landslide of about 70,000 cubic meters of mud and rocks hit Siwan Village in Chengkou County in Chongqing. The search and rescue is still under way.

Local authorities have evacuated local villagers to safe places.

Drug smuggling

THE Jieyang Chaoshan International Airport Customs in Guangdong Province seized 0.24 kg of unlawfully smuggled modafinil, a strictly controlled substance in China, and captured three suspects.

The foil-wrapped drugs were found in inbound mail that contained 300 pills of modafinil, the customs said.

Modafinil has been under strict control in China as a Class I psychotropic drug. Mistakenly considered a “smart drug” to improve cognitive skills and concentration, the stimulant is puffed up to raise school records in the short term, regardless of its undesirable side effects and drug dependence.

Typhoon affects 12.88m

SOME 12.88 million people in nine provincial-level regions of China had been affected by Typhoon Lekima as of 4 p.m. Tuesday, the Ministry of Emergency Management said.

About 2 million people in the provinces of Zhejiang, Jiangsu, Shandong, Anhui, Fujian, Hebei, Liaoning and Jilin, as well as the city of Shanghai, had been relocated, the ministry said.