Frank Hossack

Counters showcasing anti-blue-light glasses have started popping up in opticians all over China. The nation’s top ophthalmologists, however, say there is no scientific basis for such offering any benefit to those spending long periods of time looking at screens. 中国各地的眼镜店都开始出现展示防蓝光眼镜的专柜。然而，美国顶级眼科医生表示，没有科学依据表明这种做法对那些长时间看屏幕的人有任何好处。 Hazards...

China’s e-bike riders are now required to wear helmets by law, a development that has had the knock-on effect of opening up the kind of opportunity not seen in China in perhaps 3 decades. For many, it's the stuff...

With bike share companies shirking responsibility and Nanjingers dumping their rides where they please, so it falls to local authorities to clean up the mess. In a new experimental initiative, volunteers join police to keep Nanjing’s pavements orderly. It all...

The whirlwind of construction that is the expansion of the Nanjing Metro system continues at speed. Last week, Nanjing Metro released a progress update on the construction of lines 5, 6, 7, 9 and S6, as well as extensions/additional...

This week is National Cosmetics Safety Awareness Week. With the overall aim of improving the general public's awareness for the safe use of makeup, the initiative is taking many forms in different parts of China, from online blogs to...

The last 3 months have been a whirlwind for one little Nanjing girl, as her YouTube channel has turned her into somewhat of an internet celebrity; videos of her almost flawless singing and playing guitar racking up millions of...

China has come far in terms of liberalisation, a fact manifest by a Nanjing University professor’s success at tabling an animal rights motion at this year’s “Two Sessions” in Beijing. Yet, he has an 84 year-old astronomer to thank...

Traffic in opposing lanes is often separated by barriers, but who says they have to remain stationary? Nanjing is blazing the way forward for smart city roads, as an automatic tidal lane has entered operation that helps considerably to...