Jiangsu

Witnesses flooded the scene, wondering what had just happened in their community. Whatever it was, it was serious. There had obviously been a fire but rumours were quickly spreading among them that a murder had also just been committed...

Going by the inescapable and somewhat scary announcement "kindly" informing passengers on high-speed trains in China that smoking is strictly prohibited, the answer is surely “something serious”. And so it is, as two young men on a train to...

The case of a murder which occurred in Nanjing in 2003 is finally at an end, with the recent confirmation of the victim’s identity. While police knew who had committed the killing, they were not until now able to...

China’s internet has of late been alive with discussion over the case of a woman in northern Jiangsu who has mothered eight children but was made to live in a hut beside her family’s house, sometimes chained up by...

Giant American wholesaler Costco has opened its sprawling warehouse in not-so-distant Suzhou, making the city the first other than Shanghai with a Costco in China. The discounted-bulk-buying brand is also on its way to Nanjing, with an even bigger...

Closing the first week of the Paralympic Games in Tokyo, China is storming ahead of all other countries in the medal table. And as this past weekend approached, Nanjingers had reason to celebrate; a Paralympic gold medal for a...

Well known as the busiest waterway on Earth, the Yangtze River recently became the temporary home for yet another human being. No surprise there. But this one was different. This guy was trying to swim home. People end up in...

A storm that battered swathes of Jiangsu province in Eastern China with some of the highest winds ever recorded has left a city with 11 dead and over 100 injured, just as the nation was settling down to enjoy...