A man from our neck of the woods in eastern China has made a gruelling bike trek of over 2,000 kilometres, all in the name of a summer school holiday with a difference and an unsurpassable life experience for...
Tornados may be most commonly associated with the USA, but recent events are bringing to light the fact that here in Jiangsu, we live in another of the world’s hotspots for cyclones. A look at the historical record also...
Children’s safety on China’s roads is a worry, with awareness of the dangers far from acceptable. The country’s truck drivers, however, are an increasingly-professional bunch, as one proved in Jiangsu recently, when his quick reactions narrowly averted several deaths.
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Unmanned ariel vehicles, more commonly known as drones, often get a bad press, mainly for buzzing airports and grounding commercial airliners. All too easily forgotten is the key role they can play in saving lives, as per the incident...
Think of them as job centres. The landscape of cities in China is dotted with such “labour service companies”, “HR centres” or “talent shops”. But the service provided by one may well have led directly to an employee’s death,...
When pulled over at a police check point and asked for their documentation, most drivers simply comply politely, while a few will find the need to make up one excuse or another as to why they cannot. But now...
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...
