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New Water Law Helps Keep Yangtze Flowing

With Cape Town suffering its worst drought in over a century, and years of water shortages in several American states, Nanjing is taking matters into its own hands and setting its focus on water protection and preservation along the...

Nanjing Metro Line 6 Approved to Tunnel Under Forbidden City

The powers that be, Sunday 11th March, issued regulatory approval that give the go ahead for Nanjing Metro Line 6. However, it is a decision that shall continue to spark controversy, particularly among enthusiastic proponents for the protection of...

Price Wars! Meituan Takes on the Mighty Didi in Nanjing

“Mei niu? Which APP did you use to book my car?” Considering it a rather odd question, I answered that Didi Chuxing was the APP I had used. “You should start using Meituan, the price is really cheap and...

Nanjing Woman Uses Skin Whitener Product; Suffers Kidney Failure

The desire for pale skin in China has come at a detrimental cost to one Nanjing woman, who has been diagnosed with kidney failure after exposure to mercury while using a whitening product for 2 months. Identified only as Ms....

House of Failure? Nanjing Owner Dumps Flailing Store

It was the sale of the century and the talk of the town when House of Fraser was sold to the Chinese, and a local Nanjing company at that. Now, however, the honeymoon is well and truly over. Brick and...

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...

Nanjing Police Post-New Year Drug Struggles Just the Start

Car crashes, drug busts, online scams, illegal fund-raising and Lantern Festival mayhem have been keeping our forces busy over the past two weeks' post-New Year celebrations. Working on a drug-related tip off via Huai’an, Nanjing’s Gulou Police department tracked a...

Husband Terminates Embryos; Ordered to Pay Compensation

China’s first case of male embryo infringement has been heard at a Nanjing court this month. 26 February, the Nanjing Intermediate People’s Court announced a ruling by the Xuanwu Court in favour of a woman in a case regarding...

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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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