“My parents, who are doctors, say that the ‘pneumonia’ is more serious than we think”, said my friend, frowning. It was late January, and she in her face mask looked overcautious beside the fashionable ladies in Xinjiekou, who strode...
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This was when a situation, without notice, became dire, and life was uprooted in a sliver of time. Reminiscent of a scene from bygone pandemic films; a city of nearly 8 million inhabitants went into full quarantine. Face...
During these dark days, the importance of trains in maintaining our ways of life is uppermost. With air travel decimated, many rail services continue, transporting people, freight and medical aid, across countries and continents.
Prior to China’s High Speed Railway...
As opposed to the Latin alphabet that gives us words which sound like their meaning, the Chinese words of long ago often look like their meaning. Just like the ancients, these characters work from dawn to dusk, perhaps leaning...
Planning is underway in earnest for the idea-fest that is TEDxYouth@NIS on 21 March, 2020. The event burst onto the calendar ever so subtly back in 2016, with the very first talks from the community, by the community and...
Nanjing is home to the only national-level special tennis academy, the Tennis Academy of China, located in the Sun Yat-sen Mausoleum Scenic Area on Purple Mountain and built on the former site of the nation’s Central Stadium in Republican...
Alert readers will have picked up on the fact that China today celebrates her 70th birthday. Authorities up and down the land, in every field of public service, have been clambering over each other to be seen to be...
On an international scale, Nanjing’s Dutch sister city, Eindhoven, is a small dot on the map, yet the associated, so-called “Brainport” region is succeeding through its high-tech industry in becoming a key player on the global market.
In 2010, the...