Frank Hossack

Botanical Dogs Stay off Spring Festival Boredom in Nanjing

With all the Chinese New Year excitement finally over, it is now the time to work out what on earth to do over the next week. Nanjing's top brass is aware of this, and so for those of us...

“Nanjwitter Instajing”; Blocked Social Media Sites Promote Nanjing Tourism

Nanjing has joined the ranks of other cities in eastern China that have teamed up with an international public relations outfit to provide western social media content that promotes in-bound tourism. Chicago, Illinois, USA-based PHG Consulting is no stranger to...

Drunken Juliette Batters Romeo in Nanjing’s Hexi

A young intoxicated lady has spent a night at the pleasure of the Nanjing authorities after drunkenly laying into an imported car on display at a mall in the Hexi area of Nanjing. It was after a year-end company dinner...

Nanjing Man Fined 2M as China Cleans Up Environment Act

For the past 10 years, a Nanjing man has knowingly polluted the local river environment on an ongoing basis with chemicals that can lead to cancer and physical deformities in humans. The man, surnamed Wang, was a self-employed businessman but...

New Year Valentines Take to Nanjing’s Skies with Asia Airlines

This year’s close alignment of Valentines’ Day and Chinese New Year has resulted in a surge of bookings for flights from Nanjing Lukou International Airport over the holiday period. Tropical destinations in Asia are proving particularly popular this year...

Sizzling Sicily on the Grill @ Jinling Hotel

It would be fair to say there exists a fair number of expats in Nanjing who have not set foot in the Jinling Hotel, much less the Pacific Grill restaurant therein. While The Nanjinger is not in the business of...

Puerto Galera; off the Philippines’ Beaten Paths

The crowds may flock to Cebu, but amid this tropical yet contradictory Asian paradise that comprises over 7,000 islands, much more is to be had off the Philippines’ beaten paths. For The Nanjinger, the more ramshackle the shanty town,...

Rugs, Sofas & Cocoa; the $€£¥Business of Cosy in China

If there was ever a way to make a concrete shell of a home cosy, nothing could be easier than to hang up a curtain, throw down a rug, turn off the strip lighting, strike a match to 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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