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Frank Hossack

Draw Loom Enlightenment; How China Helped Dress The Beatles

The Paisley Pattern is well known the world over. Its hallmark teardrop motif, created by the draw looms that also give us Nanjing Brocade, caught the eye of Queen Victoria, while The Beatles helped to encapsulate the design into...

She Sold Other Women and Children; Arrested After 31 Years

Nanjing Police have brought an end to a 31-year-old people trafficking case in which women and children were abducted and sold. The fugitive, a 53 year-old woman, was arrested yesterday, 9 April, after revealing that she too had been...

Old Man in Wuhan Snapped Viewing Last Sunset Cured of Covid-19

After more than 2 months in a Wuhan hospital bed, an 87-year-old man who had become a star on the internet for for his moving gaze at a sunset, was today pronounced cured and discharged from hospital. It all began...

World’s Biggest & Most-Advanced ECO Cargo Ship Built by Nanjing

The second of six environmentally-friendly cargo ships for a private Italian shipping company has slid down the slipway of top Nanjing shipbuilder, Jinling Shipping, a launch made possible by a giant Yangtze River dredging project. Over the past 5-10 years, the Yangtze...

Opulent Chinese Charter Dreamliner to Bring Kids Back from UK

With Covid-19 now putting the world’s largest and most fragile communities in harm’s way, rich Chinese have been pulling out their wallets to bring children studying abroad home. In one case, the world’s only private Boeing 787 Dreamliner was...

Scared of Killer Bees? Stay Away from the Nanjing Insect Museum

Giant centipedes, killer caterpillars, blood-sucking tsete flies, venomous harvester ants and yes, killer bees, could be among the exhibits at the Nanjing Purple Mountain Insect Museum, setting out to answer the why, where, when and how of our invertebrate...

Zoo Location has Citizens Up in Arms over Threat from Virus

Wild animals have always been a controversial topic in China. In Nanjing, the close proximity of the Hongshan Zoo extension to housing has provoked outcry from local residents. Among their worries; noise, smell and coronavirus. The real estate company's propaganda...

11,800 Km Airlift; Nanjing via Alaska to New York and Michigan!

Nanjing is once again playing its part in helping to provide medical aid to assist with coronavirus fighting efforts in other countries. This time, it’s the USA as benefactor, with an airlift organised by private enterprises in the world’s...

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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