Jiangsu

Mental Ilness Shame Leads Man To Murder Wife

July 2017 a 46-year-old woman was murdered by her 55-year-old husband at their home in Xiping Village, Yangzhou. Today’s sentencing of the case highlights China’s struggle with accepting and getting help for people with mental illnesses. The couple were thought...

Wine Fakes Flicked Before Consumer Rights Day

Jiangsu is going flat out before the clock strikes 12 on China’s nationwide 3.15 Consumer Rights Day to clear out all “fakes”. This all encompassing word for anything “non-officially” produced has seen fake designer labels, cars, DVDs, and even tickets...

DNA Helps Police Snatch Murderer on Eve of Release for Theft

Police in Northern Jiangsu’s Lianyungang city have used DNA to find the culprit in a long standing murder and rape case right under their very nose, or bars, as it turns out. To be exact, the perpetrator of the...

Is it a Bike? Is it a Plane? Or is it a High Speed Train?

What’s blue and white and goes 299 kilometres per hour at Nanjing Lukou International Airport? China Southern Airlines, right? Wrong. The correct answer is in fact a motorcyclist racing along at two and half times the speed limit. As reported by...

Wuxi Becomes Newest Member of Trillion Club

The Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of Wuxi for 2017 hit ¥1.05 trillion in 2017, bolstering the Jiangsu city as it joins the ranks of the “Trillions Club” of China. Wuxi’s initiation into the Club was not a lonesome one;...

¥760 Million Mobile Phone Export Tax Rebate Scam Cracked!

27 February 2018, Zhenjiang police have announced they have cracked China’s largest case of export tax rebate fraud, amounting to ¥760m. An official letter released by the Zhenjiang police, only half an hour's drive from Nanjing,  states that after a...

Spring Festival Fatality Highlights Binge Drinking

The recent death of a 25-year old male in nearby Changzhou city, Jiangsu, highlights the dangers of Spring Festival binge excess. 24 February, as reported by Sina, a man was rushed to hospital after he collapsed. It has been reported...

Adopted Boy from Nanjing Attends Embassy CNY Bash in Washington

A New Year celebration at the Chinese Embassy in Washington Monday evening included the touching attendance of 70 American families who have one thing in common; they have all adopted a child from China, with one from our very...

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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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