Frank Hossack

Nanjing’s 10th Metro Line Opens; Ningli Line S7

6am on Saturday, 26th May, saw Nanjing Metro Line S7 open right on schedule, turning the city into a 10 line network of which Nanjing can be rightfully proud. The line’s "Ningli" moniker hints to its linking of the city...

Ambulance Takes “Short Cut”; Newborn Suffers Brain Damage

A serious lack in judgement by a Nanjing ambulance driver has led to the irreversible brain damage of a newborn baby. The baby, who was born at a hospital outside Nanjing city on 30 April, was diagnosed at the...

Top China-UK Architecture Talent Inspire Nanjing Students

Working with architecture in east-west contexts was the theme at a workshop hosted at Nanjing Southeast University last weekend, at which attendees were treated to presentations and Q & A sessions from two seminal figures in the industry. Jack Young...

Finnair Non Stop Nanjing-Helsinki Takes to the Skies

Northern Europe has just got a whole lot closer, with the launch of a direct air connection between Nanjing and Helsinki. The flight comes courtesy of Finnair, the Scandinavian country’s flag carrier. With its debut flight taking off from Helsinki...

Doing the Limbo, New Nanjing Style

“How low can you go”, goes the song. “How high can you you fly”, might be more appropriate, at one of Nanjing’s newest Western eateries; high, as in the setting of the bar, and yes, high, in terms of...

British Royal Veterinary College Accepts Suzhou Student

The British Royal Veterinary College each year admits as little as five students from abroad, and among its 2018 intake is a student from Dulwich International High School Suzhou, here in our very own Jiangsu province. The lucky recipient, Sylvia...

A Huangshan Road Trip (along the Highway from Beijing to Taipei)

The word “Taiping” is virtually a cliché. As a place name, this is the local equivalent of Springfield in the USA; no less than 47 towns in China go by the moniker. Then the name pops up in Taiping...

Politics off the Menu at Taiwan Food Festival in Nanjing

A culinary exchange between Taiwan and mainland China got underway at Nanjing’s Jinling Hotel today; that any reference to cross-Straits relations were deliberately avoided is significant. Back in March, a team of chefs from the iconic Nanjing hotel (the first...

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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