Renée Gray Beaumont

Nanjing has, in the last couple of years, become littered with plastic surgery hospitals. It feels as if there must be one on every corner now, offering women the chance at a higher-bridged nose, double eye lids or longer...

Nanjing’s Quarantine and Inspection department of Lukou Airport has issued a warning to travellers regarding the import of bird nests. On 2nd January, at Nanjing Lukou International Airport, a young tour guide, having just disembarked a flight from Thailand,...

As the deep of winter approaches, many people are concerned with temperatures dropping below zero and what that means for the use of gas in their neighbourhood. Many worry about whether civil gas supplies can be guaranteed throughout the...

A young girl (Xiao Zhang) has been found at a hotel in Nanjing’s downtown Qixia District, after having been kidnapped and held for ransom for 17 hours. The girl had been interning in neighbouring Wuhu, Anhui province, when she called...

Picking on the elderly is not a new way to extract fast and easy money, for wherever they grow affluent, the lowest of criminals will be waiting. In China, investment fraud is fast becoming one of the country’s biggest...

Among other Western delicacies such as red wine, cigars, cheese and chocolate, beef is fast becoming a staple for China’s middle-upper class. Demand has always been present in China for beef, however, prices have always been just too high. So...

Nanjing student, who is studying at Columbia University, has won an Emmy for her one-minute microfilm Nanjing Peacemaker. Luo Yiyun shot the film using only her cellphone, a selfie stick and US$100. Luo’s film beat 200 other competitors worldwide. She...

GRANDMAS, reads the bright neon lit sign outside Waipo Jia (外婆家; Grandma’s Home) restaurant. With its humble Hangzhou beginnings, Waipo Jia now has multiple locations in Nanjing and other major cities around China; bringing Hangzhou style food across the...