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Lufthansa is Back! Flights to/from Nanjing Resuming September!

It’s another little sign that the end is somewhere in sight; the imminent resumption of one of the principal air links for Nanjing with the western world. After more than a year, Lufthansa will next month be once again...

“I Want Get Off and Push”; Nanjing’s Buses Now Slower than Bikes

Nanjing’s commuters are up in arms in recent days over new regulations which strictly limit the speeds at which buses may pass through our city’s busy intersections. It’s got people asking should the safety of law breakers compromise journey...

Yao Ming: “Keep Your Children in Basketball, not Volleyball”

They’re being called the high-altitude bridesmaids, the somewhat inevitable result of marriage between a volleyball and basketball player. Household names both, joined by their contemporaries, it was a society wedding with a sporting theme and some very tall people. Pride...

Volcano Killed Dinosaurs, not Asteroid, Say Nanjing Scientists

Scientists in Nanjing have unearthed fresh evidence in support of the theory suggesting the world’s largest Extinction Level Event (ELE; the one that killed all the dinosaurs) was not in fact the result of a massive meteor impact. 南京的科学家们发现了支持这一理论的新证据,表明世界上最大的灭绝级事件(ELE;杀死所有恐龙的事件)实际上并不是大规模流星撞击的结果。 Latest...

Sinful Crook Targets Epidemic Prevention Staff in Nanjing

There are some things you just don’t do. While most unscrupulous acts can be to some degree justified, those which are morally reprehensible deserve no defence. And stealing from a COVID worker during the execution of their duty unquestionably...

People Smuggling is China’s #1 Epidemic Related Crime

Stats are in for the major cases of COVID wrongdoing so far this year. While previously it was inadequate implementation of prevention and control or a relaxed mentality which led to disciplinary action, the 2022 range of epidemic-related crime...

Gold (China’s First) for Nanjing Normal University Student!

China has taken home its first gold medal of the 2022 World Athletics Championships in the USA, and coming to the centre of the podium to receive it was none other than an alumni of our very own Nanjing...

Extreme 40+℃ Temps Hit Eastern China; GF10 Winds Buffet Nanjing

Weather authorities’ high-temperature warnings went “red” this morning, with parts of east and central China, including Nanjing, expecting 40-plus degrees Celsius, while a recent massive recent storm has also wreaked damage across several parts of our city. Yesterday, 11 July,...

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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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