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Frank Hossack

2019 FIBA Basketball World Cup Underway in Nanjing

A downtown exhibition match got the 2019 FIBA Basketball World Cup, Nanjing Leg, off to a flying start this last Saturday, 31 August, as 32 teams from all over the world limbered up to do battle in eight Chinese cities. In...

Top IGCSE Results at BSN; It’s A* in Mandarin for Every Student!

The UK’s 2019 school examination results have recently been released, causing much reason for celebration at The British School of Nanjing (BSN). All students who sat IGCSE Mandarin Chinese received an A*, while there were a number of other...

Nanjing’s Yangtze River Crossings to be Renamed; You Have a Say!

Nanjingers are preparing to say goodbye to some of their most widely-used vernacular, after yesterday afternoon’s announcement that five of Nanjing’s six Yangtze River crossings are to be renamed, following a study into unifying the naming strategy for river crossings...

Not all that Glitters is Gold; Suning Dumps 5,000 Loss Makers

A familiar sight on the Chinese physical retail urban landscape is changing hands as Nanjing’s Suning lets go of its loss-making chain of convenience stores; Suning Xiaodian. The 5,000 branch chain has been acquired by Yunzhixiang (云之香). Suning is much lauded...

Nanjingers Killed in Laos Crash Highlight SEAsia Travel Concerns

As the last of those injured in the bus crash in Laos 1 week ago that claimed the lives of 13 Chinese nationals return to Nanjing, safety concerns when traveling in less-developed countries across Southeast Asia are back in...

Cruise-Ship Terminal to be Built in Nanjing, Perhaps

The cruise industry is excited at the recent announcement that Nanjing shall be home to a cruise-ship port in the perhaps no-too-distant future, yet there are already signs that the project may take a lot longer than authorities might...

Your Place/Space in the Chinese Scheme of Things

With the 50th anniversary of the first lunar landing just last month, and for the purposes of this article, I want you to imagine that the “Xiao Qu” (鬼혐) in which you live in Nanjing as being on the...

Low-Cost Airline Launches New Nanjing-Jeju Flight

Nanjing is to receive its second direct flight between her and the South Korean island of Jeju, as Spring Airlines launches a new service on 14 August. Flight 9C6149 shall depart Nanjing Lukou International Airport every day at 2005, arriving...

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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