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Renée Gray Beaumont

Feeling the Current on the Needle

As the medical community along all points between the East and West is still divided between whether or not acupuncture indeed has any sound scientific evidence at all as to its results, The Nanjinger was referred to an acupuncture...

Throw Another Shrimp on the Chinese Dollar

Shaping up to be Nanjing’s swankier, slightly posher and newer version of 1912 is Catherine Park. The new development sits adjacent to Nanjing’s tallest building, the Zifeng Tower, and is just off the Gulou roundabout near the square, diagonally...

Defacto Marriage Case Shines Light on Protection Laws in China

A young man of 24 years, living in Qiche town of Suqian city in Jiangsu Province, has found himself battling against his maternal mother for the rights to his inheritance, as a result of her defacto marriage. The story...

Lobster Season Highlights Food Safety as Top Priority for Nanjing

As the Chinese start their annual lobster gorge, authorities are clamping down on the many unlicensed lobster restaurants, with a focus mainly on take-out delivery services that are hardest to police. Any restaurants selling small lobster via delivery APP...

Recent Changzhou Knife Attack Highlights Mistress Abuse

On 13 April 2018, the Second People’s Hospital in Changzhou, to the east of Nanjing, admitted a 33-year-old man with a knife slash to the throat, a 29-year-old woman with a slashed face and a battered 25-year-old. Officers at Xilin...

Famine to Feast; Chubby China’s Bulge Battle with Killer Apps

In 1982, a mere 7 percent of China’s population was obese. By 1992, that had risen to 15 percent and in 2012, the number of people clinically obese reached 300 million, according to the Chinese Ministry of Health. Famously lean...

Didi Hits Back with Food Delivery Service

The war that has been raging in the China ride share market is being taken to a new front; food delivery, as the tit for tat between arch rivals Didi Chuxing and Meituan sees the two continue to encroach...

Salute to a Bridge; Nanjing Still Tops the World

34 years ago today, Nanjing opened its first pedestrian bridge, the Huaihai Lu Pedestrian Bridge, pictured. While not the most significant of anniversaries, the commemoration makes for a worthy consideration of other achievements in the field of bridge construction. With...

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