Jiangsu

Chemical Waste Found Buried in Banks of Yangtze River

The Ministry of Ecology and Environment has confirmed that 30,000 cubic metres of chemical waste and other hazardous matter has been found hidden in the banks of the Yangtze River. After repeated efforts by the public, which included written reports...

Is Jiangsu Environmental Plan on Track? Recent Bust Confirms It

Perhaps spurred on by the central government’s 3-year environmental plan, residents living nearby a factory in Xinyi town, Xuzhou city in the north of Jiangsu province, have alerted local authorities to a strong odour, which they suspected was the...

How to Lose 20 Thousand or 20 Million RMB Using Alipay

A woman from Jurong in Jiangsu province, a little to the east of Nanjing, notified police in March 2018 when she found ¥50,000 missing from her back account. Swift action from the Jurong police traced the crime back to...

Three Dead in Wanda Mall Car Park in Suzhou

Wanda shopping centre in Changshu city, part of Suzhou in Jiangsu province, is under investigation after three people died this past Sunday in its car park, after a tube fell from the roof and onto a car. According to Xinhua...

British Royal Veterinary College Accepts Suzhou Student

The British Royal Veterinary College each year admits as little as five students from abroad, and among its 2018 intake is a student from Dulwich International High School Suzhou, here in our very own Jiangsu province. The lucky recipient, Sylvia...

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...

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...

Yangzhou; World Famous for Ulcerous Cancer Fried Rice

500 outbreaks of cancer in the nearby city of Yangzhou have left local people wondering whether their beloved “Yangzhou Chao Fan” is all its, er, fried up to be. An urban gastroenteroscope examination of the 500 people revealed multiple alarming...

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China’s Brain Banks Need Donors as Human Tissue Reveals Dementia Clues

China’s human brain banks are still struggling to attract donors more than a decade after the first facilities opened,...

Car-Bed Campers Turn Hotel Car Parks into Free Showers and Toilets

Chinese road trippers are swapping hotel rooms for the back seats of their own cars, folding them flat into...

China’s Metro Map Grows by Almost 65km Ahead of National Day

China’s National Day holiday has arrived with three cities adding new metro links. Nanjing, Qingdao and Changchun have opened...

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