Frank Hossack

2002 Murder Case Solved; Only the Most Gruesome Homicide Remains

Nanjing Police is an efficient bunch of cops. Last year, the force solved no less than 13 outstanding murder cases, one dating back as far as 2002. But the city still must wait for closure in the most famous...

Heist! Luxury Items Worth ¥13 Million Stolen in Xinjiekou

Hollywood could not have done it better. Designer items from some of by world’s top brands have been stolen from a downtown Nanjing store this week, right under the eye of the largest concentration of surveillance cameras, in a...

New Nationwide Train Timetable Links All of Jiangsu with Beijing

Just before the Chinese New Year and with COVID remaining an ominous threat might not be the best time to launch hundreds of new services in a revamped nationwide railway timetable. But what’s done is done; nevertheless, some who...

Rubbish Classification with English! What About Where You Live?

With it being almost 3 months since Nanjing implemented rubbish classification, The Nanjinger figured it was time for a check up on our fair city’s progress as to environmental protection efforts in the field. Turns out there is still...

Noodle Shop Boss Ties Child to Table Because He is “Too Busy”

Without grandparents or other forms of child care, many running their own restaurant in China can only bring their young children to work with them. Most, however, do not then tie them up to prevent them wandering off. Most...

Preying on Love; 184 Arrests in Live Broadcast Dating Scam

Their days of conning vulnerable young males desperate to find a partner are over. Police in China have recently cracked a huge telecom fraud case involving a live-broadcast platform, leading to the arrest of 184 people on suspicion of...

Health Code Required for all Ride Hailing & Taxis from Next Week

With the number of COVID cases creeping back up in China and large numbers expected to travel for Spring Festival over the next month, so a pre-Chinese New Year epidemic prevention effort starts in Nanjing next week. Taxis and...

Molten Aluminium Pierces Worker’s Chest; Survival is a Miracle!

Miracles don’t happen every day. But one did this past week in our own Jiangsu Province, when a worker miraculously survived being splashed across the chest with molten aluminium at a temperature of no less than 660 degrees Celsius. 奇迹不会每天都发生。但上周我们江苏省就发生了这样的事,一名工人被温度不低于660摄氏度的熔融铝溅到胸部,奇迹般地生还。 The...

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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