Laura Schmitt

In a shocking marketing ploy a marriage dating website has high-jacked the serious issue of child trafficking as a publicity stunt. Over the past few days, our WeChat Moments have once again witnessed a message go viral as it...

“We often hear of China’s first or second or third tier cities, yet what actually makes a city tier? The terms are so often used, yet there is no official formula for determining what tier a city falls in....

Are non-reusable chopsticks a thing of the past? In its latest initiative to make China more green, the government is proposing to pass a new regulation which would see the wasteful eating instruments outlawed. If the plan goes through,...

While to locals, true British culture mostly consists of the Queen, Sherlock Holmes and Big Ben, the epitome of upper-class, it is now time to introduce another side of Britishness to Nanjingers; the carboot sale. The second hand-markets are...

July will see the introduction of a new house-ownership scheme under which the government shoulders up to 50 percent of the cost. Yet locals fear it is just a PR stunt.  The regulation addresses the long-overdue...

China has publicly released a 100-name strong list of corrupt officials who have fled the country as part of the Skynet initiative. The list includes 7 Jiangsu officials.  Details publicised by the government span name, ID...

Yesterday at 11.28 pm Nanjing finally welcomed Solar Impulse 2. Pilot Bertrand Piccard flew the solar-powered airplane from Chongqing, a distance of 1,190km that took over 17 hours, thereby successfully completing the sixth leg of the world tour. The...

This morning at 6:05am a major explosion took place at the BASF－YPC factory in Liuhe. An oil refinery tower refining ethylene was the source of the explosion. *UPDATE* The fire had been brought under control by local...