Jiangsu

“A Chinese Odyssey Part One: Pandora’s Box” was shown in the Suzhou Panmen Scenic Area on 15 July as part of a China Film Archive series of activities. Full story via this link.

A resident of Yingdong Development Zone went to give his birds water on 12 July; in their place was a snake bloated sufficiently to be unable to escape the cage. Full story (in Chinese) via this link.

A new-format festival is bringing the crowds to the 1.38-kilometre long Hubin Commercial Street in which nearly 400 merchants cater to summer evening demand. Full story (in Chinese) via this link.

Over 300 crates of liquor, including counterfeited Moutai, Wuliangye and Yanghe, were publicly destroyed this week by the Jiangyan Branch of Taizhou’s PSB. Full story (in Chinese) via this link.

Traffic safety and the associated legal issues for rural villagers are largely the focus of the campaign that was launched on 13 July in Yangzhou’s Mingyue Lake Square. Full story (in Chinese) via this link.

After tourists discovered a double pedicle lotus, cuddled up like a mother and child, the plant was found to have withered. The Area seeks help in finding more. Full story (in Chinese) via this link.

The 6-year old girl had the 8-centimetre long braid of hair, resembling six duck eggs, removed recently at the Children’s Hospital Affiliated to Suzhou University. Full story via this link.

Were they not stood in the Huai'an Intermediate People's Court, no one would have ever suspected that these seven ordinary-looking people were in fact financial predators who had manipulated the securities market, making hundreds of millions.  On 11 and 12...