Frank Hossack

3cm Nail Removed from Man’s Eye after 3 Days

A Nanjing labourer has had a tremendously lucky escape, avoiding the loss of an eye after doctors were successful in removing a nail from a nail gun which was only found behind his eye after it had been stuck...

11 Dead, Hundreds Injured & Thousands Evacuated in Holiday Winds

A storm that battered swathes of Jiangsu province in Eastern China with some of the highest winds ever recorded has left a city with 11 dead and over 100 injured, just as the nation was settling down to enjoy...

License to Thrill; Behold Bond at British Ball in Nanjing…

...or more precisely, behold many Bonds, because the real stars shall in actual fact be YOU! For 007 is the theme at the first ever British Ball to be held in Nanjing. And the razzmatazz is all for a...

Before You Fly; May Day Travel Advisory Warning

A quarter of a billion people are expected to travel this upcoming May Day holiday, breaking all records. For those getting on a plane over the next week, authorities have released travel advisory warnings to keep us safe and...

Is this Lady Nanjing’s Coolest Cop or what?

Commanding the thousands of vehicles to the rhythm of the traffic lights each morning in downtown Nanjing is one cool lady. But in her hi-vis, fluorescent-green uniform, this is a picture of authority that also brings a feminine touch...

Bar in Nanjing to Pay Baidu ¥800,000 for Copyright Infringement

The future of a bar in downtown Nanjing now hangs in the balance, after a court found it guilty of violating the trademark of internet giant, Baidu. For the illegal use of the name, the bar is now searching...

China’s Leonardo da Vinci Seeking Daoist Transcendency; Tao Hongjing

Tao Hongjing (陶弘景) was the Daoist Buddhist who invented an elixir which made the body weightless, a protoscientist who taught princes and drew supernatural talismans, known to many as the “Grand Councillor of the Mountains”. 陶弘景(陶弘景)是道教佛教徒,他发明了一种使身体失重的长生不老药,他是一位教王子和绘制超自然护身护身圣的原始科学家,被许多人称为“山区大顾问”。 Born in Nanjing in then...

“Be Afraid [of Anti-Stealth Radar]” is Message at Nanjing Expo

Towering outside Nanjing’s exhibition centre the past few days were China’s latest showcases of military technology; anti-stealth radar systems capable of detecting the world’s top “invisible” aircraft, it is said. But the show itself could have done with a...

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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