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Frank Hossack

Paraglider Fatality; Man Drowns in Nanjing after Crash in River

A sporting tragedy occurred in Nanjing at the weekend, when a man paragliding ended up in a local river. But despite the best efforts of a good Samaritan who was unable to save the man, paragliding remains one of...

Longing for International Travel? Visit Macau Week in Nanjing

Many yearn for those days of commonplace international travel. But even now there is one destination abroad within our reach, and that’s the quarantine-free former Portuguese enclave of Macau. Find out more at a special promotional activity starting this...

All aboard the Vaccination Bus (for a Free Haircut)!

The race to get jabs in arms continues. Or rather, the race to persuade people to get jabs in arms continues. And to do so, Nanjing is rolling out ever-more creative and innovative schemes. Among them, the vaccination bus...

Weekend Theft; What the Chinese Think of “Borrowed Days”

You would think we would be used to it by now. “Borrowed days” is the concept that’s been in use for quite a number of years; extending national holidays but making up for the lost time by turning a...

Woman Driver Stops in Emergency-Use-Only Lane to Put on Makeup

Nanjing police were lost for words over the recent May Day holiday, when the uptick in travel also brought with it some very strange behaviour on the part of China’s citizens, by some who chose to put the transportation...

Oxygen Aid for India; Nanjing Lends Hand with Emergency Airlift

With the world looking on in horror at events unfolding in India, so efforts at aiding the COVID-stricken country are finally becoming reality. Among them, an aircraft has flown from Nanjing with supplies of life-saving oxygen concentrators on board. It...

3cm Nail Removed from Man’s Eye after 3 Days

A Nanjing labourer has had a tremendously lucky escape, avoiding the loss of an eye after doctors were successful in removing a nail from a nail gun which was only found behind his eye after it had been stuck...

11 Dead, Hundreds Injured & Thousands Evacuated in Holiday Winds

A storm that battered swathes of Jiangsu province in Eastern China with some of the highest winds ever recorded has left a city with 11 dead and over 100 injured, just as the nation was settling down to enjoy...

About Me

Editor-in-Chief of The Nanjinger, Frank Hossack, is a multi-award winning Radio/TV host who has worked in China for the past 30 years. Frank has also written for Time magazine and The Times, appeared on the BBC and LBC, and been cited by CNN, China Daily and the New York Times, among many others.
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