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Frank Hossack

Sunny Skies to Stay; Government Denies Reports of VPN Ban

Following reports emerging in media all over the world over the past two days claiming China was to put an end to VPN use once and for all, the State has taken the surprising move of issuing a quick...

Nanjing Metro Line 5 Setbacks; Too Many Relics in the Way

At some point in the not so distant future, Nanjing’s metro line 5 will need to be in place under Shanghai Lu. Such a prospect has speculation running rife among those who live and work along this essential and...

Nanjing Metro Line S3 Could Enter Operation as Soon as November

Nanjing stands a chance of receiving its eighth metro line by the end of this year. The Nanjing Metro Group announced this week that the new link, Line S3, previously known as Line 12, will in...

Hairs to the Mohican; China’s Punk Renaissance

Bonds neither supplied by nature nor birthright, a connection far beyond that of mere friends; that not of lovers, and not blood related. A sub group of people that help one another grow, who support one another, financially, spiritually,...

Nanjing World Roller Championships to be Major Sports Spectacle

After last week’s announcement that this year’s Roller Games World Championships shall once again be held in Nanjing, beginning in late August, further details are emerging as to the scope of what promises to be one of the most...

Death Toll Mounts After Jiangsu Kindergarten Explosion

The northern Jiangsu city of Xuzhou was struck by tragedy Thursday afternoon when a large explosion occurred at Chuangxin kindergarten in the area’s Fengxian County. State media are reporting that gas cylinders were the cause of the blast while there...

The Dropa; Large Scale Extra Terrestrial Invasion of China

The story of events in Roswell, New Mexico in 1947 is infamous; the subject of countless books, websites, periodicals, TV series et al. The story itself is also perhaps more famous for being quite possibly the biggest hoax ever...

Expat Nightmares; Cross-Cultural Adaptation

It's difficult to believe that many multinational corporations spend from 150,000 to as much as half a million US dollars on moving an expat family to China. It is also then quite staggering to realise that half of such...

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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Foreigners Coming to Nanjing Return to Near Pre-COVID Levels

Certainly it can be felt on the streets of Nanjing these days. Our city is once again “en vogue”...

Just how has Suzhou become a Hotbed for the Private Economy?

Suzhou’s GDP in the 1st quarter of this year topped half a trillion renminbi, a year-on-year growth of 7.9...

Nanjing-Melbourne Flight Marks 45 Years as Sister State Friends

Check in counters might be the oddest of places to hold an anniversary celebration for 45 years of ties...

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