Frank Hossack

Mobile Phone Caution! Watch out for Shared Power Bank Outrage

Ever use those power banks which you can rent in restaurants to charge up your phone while dining? They are a popular utility but one now increasingly less so. In fact, they are beginning to infuriate many. Stay away...

Iconic Nanjing Mall “Destroyed” in Massive Weekend Fire

A hugely-popular, Nanjing-shopping icon is now more-than likely a thing of the past. Citizens were left aghast over the weekend at images of the enormous fire and resulting smoke engulfing one of Nanjing’s mega malls which flooded social media. At...

Amazon Sued by Huawei in Landmark Patent Infringement Case

Now the glove is on the other foot. After decades of foreign companies taking legal action over the alleged abuse of their copyright and the outright copying of their products, it’s time to turn the tables. And big ol'...

COVID Tests; Every 24 Hrs or every 48 Hrs? What’s the Difference?

They have a kind of urgency to their gait. More so than for when they go to get the milk. Yep, it’s those heading for a COVID test. Easy to spot; often complete families who would not otherwise see...

Incoming! Time for the Return of the Golden Ginkgo!

These trees are old. Really old. Older even than the city of Xuzhou in northwest Jiangsu. That it be the oldest city in the Province, dating back 6,000 years as a civilisation and over 2,600 years as a city,...

Nanjingers Want Be Wed in “World’s Most Beautiful Public Toilet”

Media elsewhere picked up on this new Nanjing sensation a few weeks ago. Now though, Chinese-media outlets are going crazy for that being called the world’s most-beautiful public toilet. It’s going folk asking, “Can we have a wedding here?”. That’s...

“Change-a-Money?” Guys Nabbed in ¥200 Million Foreign Exchange Scam

With its controls over foreign currency, the practice of the illegal exchange thereof in China is decades old. But now, it’s all caught up with some individuals whose ¥200-million scam was operating in Shanghai and beyond, including our very...

In University Campus Lockdown Post Coffee is Star Attraction

Earlier this year, China Post announced it was moving into the coffee business. Makes sense, right? Actually, it does. Well now it does anyway, as the experience of students in one Nanjing university, under lockdown on account of COVID,...

About Me

Editor-in-Chief of The Nanjinger, Frank Hossack, is a multi-award winning Radio/TV host and voice-over artist who has worked in China for the past 32 years. Frank has also written for Time magazine, the Wall Street Journal 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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Nanjing’s International Flights; All Change for Summer Schedule

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