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Frank Hossack

Nanjing Gives 10 Years in Jail for Taking ¥7 Million in Bribes

China’s crackdown on corruption is only intensifying, as can be seen from a Nanjing court this week handing out a lengthy period behind bars for an official who accepted bribes totaling the value of only that of a generous...

Nanjing First City on Earth to Realise Metro-Wide 5G Coverage?

A global first; Nanjing’s ambition in the field of 5G interconnectivity for all has recently taken another step toward being a reality, with the city becoming the first in the world to have 5G service availability across its entire...

He Would Have Been 18 Today, Had His Hopeful Heart Held Out

Today marks an important anniversary for Nanjing-based charity, Hopeful Hearts. For 31 October would have been the 18th birthday of the boy in whose memory the charity was formed. His passing, however, has enabled life-saving surgery for hundreds of...

Free Helmets for Riders in New Going-Green, Bike-Share Fleet

Nanjing may have done a decent job in getting her e-bike riding citizens to wear helmets, but that’s not stopping efforts to keep those on two wheels safe in other cities, in a proactive manner that puts Nanjing to...

Nanjing Kindergarten Parents Sit Rubbish Classification Exams

The time is almost nigh. Come Sunday, Nanjing and her citizens shall all be required to practice rubbish classification as part of waste disposal. A large public information campaign has been raging in support of the incoming regulations, resulting...

High Speed Trains from Beijing to Moscow Distinct Possibility

Not content with constructing high speed railways to every corner of the country, China now hopes to bring its technological skills in the sector to bear on international routes, particularly into Russia and other CIS countries. Anyone who has taken...

Nanjing’s Italian Design Expo Set to Once Again Rock Shanghai

Now a regular fixture on the Shanghai exhibition circuit, Italian Design Icons (IDI) has its roots in Nanjing’s foreign community, when a boutique expat law firm set its sights on Shanghai, from both a legal and design perspective. Set to...

Faster, Earlier, Later; New Nanjing Metro Timing from Tomorrow

Frequent users of the Nanjing Metro will from tomorrow be able to benefit from a radically overhauled timetable on several of the city’s 10 metro lies, with some seeing faster travel times and others with earlier and later departures...

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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