Misnamed? After our balmy Winter, Spring Festival should herald the move towards Summer. However, the weather gods are following a different playbook. No sooner than the said festival is more or less out of the way, the temperature plummets...
Colourful additions to our streets are the new hire bikes. With bright yellows, blues, and silver, and a prominent brand on the frame, these bicycles are parked on sidewalks waiting to be snapped up by people using an app....
Who'd want to be a weather forecaster? Well, at least in the long range business. With a shift in ocean currents, we were promised a colder than usual Winter. In late November, it seemed true with a nasty cold...
If you have not been keen on CCTV News recently, you might not have woken to the "new" CGTN. It is a network of the CCTV foreign language channels, including the major English language news channel, and a documentary channel. Mostly...
What colour is it? The new train has been sighted at the terminus of line 4, but how to describe the colour is a tough call. Somehow it is not quite the "purple" it has been dubbed. We'd welcome...
Our Winter solstice has come and gone. If you are one of the few remaining in Nanjing for Christmas and New Year, make the most of what might be a quieter time, and connect with others. Search nanjingexpat.com for...
Tears of the gods fell, and the sirens sobbed their cries of despair. The anniversary of the Nanjing Massacre passed again on Tuesday. When a maintenance access cover was stuck, in front of a foreign owned business, the worker...
Last week, Lifecycle gazed upwards, so now let's get down to ground level. This probably applies elsewhere, but is now prominent in Xianlin. The farmers have descended on the road verges and really advanced “farms” have appeared. Along one...
