China built a $350 million bridge that ends in a dirt field in North Korea

The New Yalu River Bridge was supposed to be a key link for trade between China and North Korea, replacing the Sino-Korean Friendship Bridge built in 1943. It had a $350 million budget but construction has stopped entirely, the bridge now leads to a dirt field in North Korea.

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Who Built a Secret Mountaintop Mansion on Top of This Skyscraper?

They really didn't say but check out that mountain! This ain't your average rock garden. Too bad it all had to be taken down!...

What on Earth?
Drone and satellite images revealed an enormous garden on top of a skyscraper, complete with a vineyard and swimming pool.

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This man worked undercover in a Chinese iPhone factory

Ok, so does this mean we shouldn't complain about our jobs anymore?...

Dejian Zeng spent 12 hours a day attaching one screw to iPhones. As part of his summer project, the NYU grad student went undercover for 6 weeks at a Pegatron factory in Shanghai. He lived on-site in a dorm with 7 other people and got to experience what really goes into making the popular mobile device. He tells us what it was like.

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5 dinosaur eggs were just discovered at a construction site in China

Five dinosaur eggs were found in the Guangdong province of China. The eggs are believed to be 70 million years old. Three of the five eggs were destroyed but were still visible in the fossil. They likely belonged to a plant-eating dinosaur in the Cretaceous period.

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The boy who can jump rope faster than anyone in the world

This can't be good for the body? Doing it all the time. Amazing anyways. Some smart ass mentioned on YouTube it could come in handy - if you have a cockroach problem...

Cen Xiaolin, a 15-year-old high-school student from Guangzhou, south China's Guangdong Province, completed an “impossible challenge”, jumping faster than a team of national rope-jumping champions. Alone against a five-person relay team, he wowed the audience with a jaw-dropping performance as he attempted 1,000 jumps at lightning speed. 

"Beyond the Edge," an original reality show produced and broadcast by China Central Television, showcases ordinary people performing superhuman feats. Watch the first episode of the second season, as contestants try to break Guinness World Records.

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New satellite images show inside China’s ghost cities

China still has a startling number of vacant real-estate developments, judging from new satellite analysis by DigitalGlobe and Business Insider.

Chinese ghost cities have made headlines for nearly a decade, with huge new real-estate developments sitting mostly empty for years. Some see them as a sign China is heading for a real-estate crash. Others see them as just the typical style of urban expansion for a giant state-run economy.

While some ghost cities are reportedly filling in, the problem isn’t going away. A recent Baidu study of phone data gave clear evidence of 50 cities with areas of high vacancy. And just this fall China's richest man called Chinese real estate "the biggest bubble in history."

We looked inside some ghost cities with the latest in satellite technology, including time-lapse images, to show what’s making progress and what isn’t.

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