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TCM Hospital in Nanjing Cures Leukemia

The Nanjing government has released an article that states a patient suffering from recurrent Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (otherwise known as ALL) has been cured following CAR-T (Chimeric Antigen Receptors) therapy at the Jiangsu Provincial Hospital of TCM (Traditional Chinese...

Back to Cabs? Dopey Didi Drivers More Bother than Convenience

If you are a regular expat private car user in China, then you will have noticed a surge in cars without number plates. “I’m coming, but I don’t have a number plate, it’s stuck to the windscreen…look out for...

LGBT Choir Group Centre Stage at Nanjing Centre for Culture

7 January, and The Old Jiangsu University of Culture (江苏老文化大学), which is now the Jiangsu Centre for Culture in Nanjing, hosted its First performance of the New Jump Choir Group, to rave reviews. The group is made up of...

Nanjing Woman’s Face Rots After Botched Botox Injection

Nanjing has, in the last couple of years, become littered with plastic surgery hospitals. It feels as if there must be one on every corner now, offering women the chance at a higher-bridged nose, double eye lids or longer...

No More Frozen Freebies; Nanjing Customs Clamps Down

The new year brought with it Nanjing customs’ collection of ¥200 million worth of frozen food bound for Wuxi, Suzhou and Kunshan. It has emerged that frozen seafoods in the main, such as 8,000 tonnes of shrimp, cuttlefish and...

Bird Nest Imports Boil at Nanjing Lukou Airport

Nanjing’s Quarantine and Inspection department of Lukou Airport has issued a warning to travellers regarding the import of bird nests. On 2nd January, at Nanjing Lukou International Airport, a young tour guide, having just disembarked a flight from Thailand,...

First Nanjing Snows of the Year Biggest in a Decade

As evening settled and darkness fell in Nanjing on Wednesday, so the temperature finally plummeted and the rains began a flurry. Thus this morning, the city awoke to a thick snowfall, the first of this winter and 2018. Even at...

Natural Gas Supplies Under Threat as Nanjing Makes the Switch

As the deep of winter approaches, many people are concerned with temperatures dropping below zero and what that means for the use of gas in their neighbourhood. Many worry about whether civil gas supplies can be guaranteed throughout the...

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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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