Frank Hossack

Fixed! Nanjing Yangtze River Bridge Wins International Award

Nanjing’s iconic Yangtze River Bridge has had an extra sheen added to her lustre, as the 50-plus- year-old structure was recently selected as winner of a prestigious award in the international bridge-building community, for renovation work completed in 2018. It...

Are Nanjing’s Rubbish Classification Plans too Ambitious?

With September just around the corner, the clock is ticking on Nanjing’s ambitions to have segregated rubbish recycling in place citywide by year end. Much progress has been made, but there remains a lot of work to be done. Yesterday,...

Public Transport Addict Takes 40 Buses from Hangzhou to Qingdao

A young man from Hangzhou has found himself in the media spotlight for following the rules of a self-imposed challenge that would result in him taking 5 days to travel from his home city to Qingdao, via Nanjing, at...

Love is the Drug on Metro Line 4 for Chinese Valentines’ Day

Star-crossed lovers lucky enough to get on the right train on Metro Line 4 from today shall perhaps have their fates sealed, as Chinese Valentines Day is celebrated in Nanjing with a'n invitation for lovers to make their confessions. Today...

Nanjing’s Global Ranking Spikes as World Power Shifts to Asia

Nanjingers have reason to be proud today as their city has jumped up in the rankings of a well-respected index of the world’s greatest metropoles, while Asian cities are now close to occupying the bulk of the top positions therein. Last Friday, 21...

Casino Discovered on Cargo Ship; 100 Arrests, 3.7 Million Seized

Gambling is as popular in China as anywhere else, but that it is also illegal has given rise to some creative criminal behaviour, such as the illicit conversion of a cargo ship to one fit for gambling on the...

God Takes Selfie in Nanjing; There’s Lightning But No Thunder

Have the feeling last night that a thunderstorm was imminent, but then nothing happened? You were not alone, as Nanjing yesterday experienced the very rare meteorological condition whereby there is the occurrence of lightning unaccompanied by thunder. Yesterday, 19 August,...

3 Nanjingers’ Remains Found in Freezer; Police Rule Out Homicide

A case that has dragged on for a year reached a crescendo of sorts yesterday, with the latest hearing of evidence in a family feud as to why five Nanjingers went travelling, but only one returned, leading one of...

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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