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Live Comedy in Nanjing Deserving of Parental Control!

Following great success last winter with their play Anuncion, comedy group International Spice proudly presents their latest show, Parental Control, to be performed in Nanjing over the next two weekends. The living-room comedy, as with all...

Nanjing Foreigner Uses Legal System to Beat Employment Agency

As foreigners we often hear too many horror stories of bad employers offering empty promises and then a boot to the curb when small companies decide they no longer wish to pay us. Not too often,...

Australian Contracts Swine Flu in Nanjing; Fighting for Life at Hospital

Australian grandmother Kerri Cosma 58, arrived in Nanjing on April 13 on what was to be a routine visit to see her daughter and son in law; both having moved to China two years ago. After...

China’s Harshest ESL Crackdowns Come to Fruition

With the PSB wiping out foreign teachers left, right and centre, as an illegal in China, the ride is well and truly over. No longer will foreigners be able to get away with teaching without a...

Local Expat Student Advertises World’s Biggest Crane Co.

A student at The British School of Nanjing is starring in a new television commercial for the world’s fifth largest construction machinery business. Carol Potgieter, in year 5 at BSN, appears with her father and others in the new video...

Nanjing Expat 2015 Survey Reveals Foreign Population Makeup

For the past year, Nanjing Expat has been conducting a survey of the foreign population in Nanjing, in the interests of the population at large, and to better cater for them through its range of media products. ...

Fish and Chips and an IPA, as Soon as You Like, Please

Proudly pointing to the forty beer taps behind the bar, Alex Stewart, one of the owners of Tap Planet Co., says “Nanjing is an awesome city. Nanjing needs to have something like this.” Alex and his...

Jiangsu Salutes Contributions Made by Expats

The subject of foreigners is a sensitive one in most countries. While China has its fair share of nationalism, it is also a country where foreigners are, to a degree, celebrated. There can certainly be very few places that...

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Baby on Board in High Speed Train Emergency Delivered by Urologist into Nanjing

Mid-journey between Shanghai and Nanjing, a routine high-speed train service turned into an improvised delivery room, when a lady...

Iranians in China become more Visible than Countable

These things often start, not with a statistic, but with a voice; Persian heard in a lift, a WeChat...

Why Chinese Men Can’t Quit; Smoking, Face and the State

China has 300 million smokers, nearly a third of the world's total. The imbalance between the sexes is stark:...

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