Who knew Shanghai was so closely aligned with the aviation industry? Not only is the city the host of the first recorded flight in China (in 1909), it's modern incarnation is now an aviation center, with two ventures poised to shake up flight as we know it. The first: Comac's first China-designed-and-made jet ever, coming in 2016. The second: the world's first viable electric plane. How exciting! more ›

China has made yet another astounding discovery that is transforming everything we thought we knew about dinosaurs - a 160 million-year-old creature that supports the claim that modern day birds are in fact dinosaur descendants. more ›

Shanghai Airlines passengers, upset at a 24-hour delay on a flight to Taiwan, decided to clog things up even more by staging a sit-in on the plane after it finally arrived at Taipei's Songshan Airport. Flight FM80Y departed Shanghai's Pudong International Airport on Saturday morning, but zipped around and returned to Shanghai right before it was supposed to have landed in Taipei. The pilot told passengers that the flight had been rerouted because of thunderstorms, but passengers insisted the pilot had flown back to Shanghai because "he was unhappy." A day later, when they finally got to the island, the passengers complained about the service attitude of Shanghai Airlines (which allegedly offered each one 400RMB in compensation), and refused to get off the plane in Taipei. After 30 minutes on the tarmac, Taiwan officials managed to persuade the protesters to leave. Strangely, this is not the first sit-in by Chinese airlines passengers we've heard of. Is this some new trend? Source: Taipei Times more ›

Cathay Pacific has given an apology and an upgrade to “Airport Auntie,” the hysterical older Chinese woman who had a complete breakdown in the Hong Kong International Airport after she missed her flight. more ›