Frank Hossack

Kindergarten in Yancheng in Trouble for Inquiring as to Parents’ Occupations

The Yancheng Education Bureau has instructed Yancheng Hongguoguo Kindergarten to rectify its issuing of the questionnaire, while stressing that the information of parents will not be linked to the provincial high-quality kindergarten review. Full story (in Chinese) via this link;...

Fake & Shoddy Gas Masks Found in Nantong Hotel Rooms Confiscated

Inspecting the breathing apparatus in hotels and other places in conjunction with market supervision authorities, Nantong Fire Department found multiple hotels to be deploying the counterfeit masks which have now been confiscated and sent for inspection. Full story (in...

Wuxi Symphony Hall Capped; to Stage 2026 New Year’s Day Concert 

Occupying a total construction area of approximately 100,000 square metres, located on the shore of Lake Tai and boasting a NR15 acoustic standard, Wuxi Symphony Concert Hall is envisioned to be the City’s next cultural innovation engine. Full story...

The Building of Nanjing (33); North Building of Jinling University

A cornerstone of modern Chinese education, blending Western academic traditions with Chinese cultural values, the legacy of Jinling University continues to this day, through the institutions it helped establish and the generations of scholars it educated. 作为现代中国教育的基石,将西方学术传统与中国文化价值观融合在一起,金陵大学的遗产一直延续到今天,通过它帮助建立的机构和它教育的几代学者。 With little doubt the...

Downtown Murder from 15 Years ago Cracked by Nanjing Police

With the murder of a middle-aged woman on 26 March, 2010, taking place in an old community with little in the way of security, police had little to go on. Recent improvements in forensic science led them recently to...

“Strawberry Olympics” on in Yancheng, Producer of ¥1 Billion Worth of Yum Annually!

Held every 4 years and initiated by the International Horticultural Society, the 10th International Strawberry Conference, regarded as the world's top event in the strawberry industry, runs until 21 March. Experts from 26 countries and regions are on site....

Kenya Triumphant in Men & Women’s Nanjing Half Marathon; China Comes 3rd 

25,000 runners from 31 countries and regions took part in the race on 16 March, with the winning Men’s time being 1:04’47” and 01:15’04” for the Women. Some 2,741 volunteers from universities in Nanjing and all walks of life...

Beam Rotation Technology Used for 1st Time in Jiangsu to Cross Nanjing Metro Line

It was 01:58 on 16 March when the 126-metre-long continuous beam of the Liuhe Bridge for the new Shanghai-Nanjing-Hefei High-speed Railway was successfully turned, to end at an angle of 46 degrees across Nanjing Metro Line S8. Full story (in...

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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