Having broken the cardinal rule that is not to leave Jiangsu quite a few times of late, this correspondent feels the time is right for an update from the field as regards foreigners and their train tickets. And there...
A teenage boy in southern China has lavishly spent his way through his father’s life savings, taking friends out to party in a local bar where they consumed almost ¥300,000 worth of Champagne. What hope is there now of...
World Water Day has been marked in Nanjing by local media turning it into an opportunity to put pay to a number of rumours regarding the resource, rumours so pervasive they are taken by many to be absolute fact.
南京当地媒体庆祝了世界水日,并以此为契机,对有关资源的一些谣言进行辟谣,谣言如此普遍,以至于许多人认为这是绝对事实。
Yesterday,...
International students in China are back in the news again, this time for the treatment they receive that favours them over their local compatriots when it comes to university admission standards. Time to level the playing field, says a...
The Chinese internet is once again up in arms over the behaviour of the nation’s youth. Catching their ire this time is the new trend for female adolescents to try on children's clothes in fast-fashion stores, just to obtain...
More than a year has passed since the outbreak of the epidemic and people have become accustomed to wearing masks. Under that guise, however, even the most vain of feminine beauties have reduced their lipstick use. How has the industry...
China continues to pull out all the stops in her determination to avoid any exponential growth in the numbers of coronavirus variant cases. In one of the more notable efforts, disinfection of cross-border trains has come to pass in...
Their days of conning vulnerable young males desperate to find a partner are over. Police in China have recently cracked a huge telecom fraud case involving a live-broadcast platform, leading to the arrest of 184 people on suspicion of...