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Out With Paris and in With Abu Dhabi

Delegates from the UAE (United Arab Emerites) have dispatched a group of hotels, travel agents, companies and airlines and also tourism departments and representatives of the industry, to Shanghai and Beijing, with stops in Chengdu, Wuhan, Guangzhou and Nanjing...

Pulitzer Prize Winning Play “Disgraced” Comes to Nanjing University

The most produced play in America in 2015-16, Ayad Akhtar’s Pulitzer- winning drama Disgraced will tour universities and high schools in China under the direction of Timothy Douglas from April 3 to 30, produced by Ping Pong Productions with...

Compensation Thirst Inspires Mass Village Divorce

Making way for a high-tech development zone, a village in Pukou District’s Jiangbei area is to be demolished. With that comes compensation, and with that comes divorce. Residents of the village in Nanjing’s northern suburbs have...

Nanjing Wins Rights to Host 2018 World Badminton Championships

The Badminton World Federation (BWF) on Saturday awarded host status for the BWF World Championships in 2018 to the city of Nanjing. The March 18 press conference in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, revealed that the championships will...

Just Reward for 18 Years Spent Looking at Stone Animals

With its 12 animal zodiacal signs, China's love affair with the animal kingdom is taken by some to extremes. Now, Nanjing photography enthusiast Cao Qingchun, who has visited over 100 stone animal sites in Jiangsu, documenting...

Top Transplant Specialist Stabbed in Nanjing Hospital

The morning of 17th February began at 8.30am with a vicious attack on one of Nanjing’s most senior liver transplant specialists. The doctor suffered a stab to his left leg, fractured jaw and mouth lacerations during...

US$30 Billion Microchip Investment in Nanjing Too Good to be True

If you want something done right, do it yourself. Thwarted by their attempts to acquire foreign microchip production companies to satisfy China's vast appetite, one massive domestic private company is proclaiming that it shall itself invest US$30 billion into...

Architect Boeri to Erect Bosco Verticale in Nanjing’s Pukou District

Italian Architect and Urban Planner Stefano Boeri is bringing the construction of the “Nanjing Towers” to Pukou District in the city's northern suburb; two towers that will house 730 trees, 5,000 shrubs and 11,000 plants. In...

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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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