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Renée Gray Beaumont

Salmon at Prices too Good to be True a Serious Health Risk

Wealthy Chinese diners have developed a taste for raw salmon and wasabi, but concerns over the former’s true safety have recently risen. Over the past decade, not only has China embraced Japanese cuisine, but the country’s conversion to a salmon-rich...

Film Festival Highlights Italy’s Lead in Art & Fashion

The prestigous Nanjing University has teamed up with the Italian Consulate Shanghai and The Purple Mountain Academy of Arts (TPM), in order to bring the International Italian Film Festival to the city of Nanjing. Beginning yesterday May 25, the Festival...

Aussie Rules Diplomacy; Playing to Repair Political Relations

A new beginning for relations between Australia and China has has materialised as diplomacy efforts from the Australian Football League (AFL) saw the Gold Coast Suns play against Port Adelaide, at the Adelaide Arena in the Jiangwan Stadium in...

Nanjing Judges Show Humanity Through Song

When thinking about the real lives of our nation’s uppermost legal body, the imagination can run eluded, for no one really knows the secret lives of these very important people. Perhaps people such as judges have families, sons or...

Vintage Clothes in China; Why Bother?

The last time I went home, vintage was all the rage. My mother used to take me Op shopping (opportunity), charity or thrift to those Brits and Americans reading this; the smells, the stories, the treasures we could find;...

Lhasa-Bound Pilot Sucked Out after Cockpit Windshield Shatters

On the morning of 14 May passengers and crew on board Sichuan Airlines flight 3U8633 from Chongqing to Lhasa, dramatically landed in Chengdu 1 hour after take-off, after the cockpit’s windshield smashed, causing the copilot to be partially sucked...

Nanjing “Elite Challenge” Tops for Chinese Cybersecurity

A Chinese cybersecurity mimic defence theory has surpassed odds by withstanding over 500,000 hacker attacks. The international challenge called Cyberspace Power, which ended on Saturday 12 May, was the first “Elite Challenge” on Cyber Mimic Defence capabilities and was...

Communist Housing Adopts “Rent-a-Lift” to Aid Elderly

“Production First, Livelihood Second”, China’s late premier Zhou Enlai was once famous for saying. For the large part, this described China’s attitude at the time to the comforts of modern housing. Mao and Deng era Soviet-style housing was, at...

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