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Six Flags Amusement Parks to Open in Nanjing

Six Flags Entertainment Corporation, the world’s largest regional theme park company, has announced its plans for opening a water park, theme park, and adventure park in Nanjing. The amusement park operator has been offering hundreds of roller coasters, thrill rides...

Catkins Snowing on Nanjing Carry Fluffy Insects

Turn right off Xianyin Bei Lu that leads to the Yadong area of Xianlin, just before and after the entrance to the gated community Royal Family Gardens that is popular with expats, and flanking you either side of the...

Beauty Bike Dump Images Further Highlight Garbage Problem

On this, World Press Day, the UK’s Guardian newspaper is carrying a story revealing the hidden art in China’s bike share dumps that includes inspiring arial photography of our very own Nanjing. But as the London Commonwealth Heads meeting...

Taxi Drivers Give Away Flower Seeds in Nanjing Ride-Share Battle

Regular users of taxi sharing scheme, Didi, may have noticed the usually plain white cars have had a sprucing up this spring. Flowing with the season, the app-based platform has given drivers incentives with a collection of free giveaways...

Lobster Season Highlights Food Safety as Top Priority for Nanjing

As the Chinese start their annual lobster gorge, authorities are clamping down on the many unlicensed lobster restaurants, with a focus mainly on take-out delivery services that are hardest to police. Any restaurants selling small lobster via delivery APP...

Politics off the Menu at Taiwan Food Festival in Nanjing

A culinary exchange between Taiwan and mainland China got underway at Nanjing’s Jinling Hotel today; that any reference to cross-Straits relations were deliberately avoided is significant. Back in March, a team of chefs from the iconic Nanjing hotel (the first...

1/2 Kilo of Heroin Trafficked in Nanjing Bonnie & Clyde Style

In a story reminiscent of legendary criminal husband and wife team Bonnie and Clyde, on Saturday, 24 February, the Gulou Public Security Bureau received an almost unbelievable report from the Nanjing Police Department. According to the report, a man...

Salute to a Bridge; Nanjing Still Tops the World

34 years ago today, Nanjing opened its first pedestrian bridge, the Huaihai Lu Pedestrian Bridge, pictured. While not the most significant of anniversaries, the commemoration makes for a worthy consideration of other achievements in the field of bridge construction. With...

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Shanghai’s Railway Map Shifts East; Cross City to Hongqiao soon but a Memory

For years, Shanghai’s high-speed rail map has pulled passengers towards Hongqiao. That balance is beginning to change. New stations...

Shiseido Sues Aldi over a ¥24.9 Primer that Resembles Its ¥540 Rival

Shiseido has sued Aldi China, the product's manufacturer and an Aldi Shanghai store operator over unfair competition, arguing that...

Forty Tables Became Twenty; Then the Bookings Stopped

Susu has sold wedding banquets at one of the biggest hotels in her small town in northern China for...

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