There was no white Christmas for Nanjingers, but the chances of a white Chinese New Year are increasingly likely, as this part of the country prepares for some pretty rainy and snowy conditions, with January closing out and giving...
China’s wishes for a “harmonious society” are often manifest in surprising ways, as one lady in Nanjing recently found out, after a motorbike policeman put her on the back of his bike and sped across town so that her...
Nanjing’s parking spaces, or lack thereof, are back in the headlines, after two women guarding an empty space were forcibly pushed out thereof by another vehicle, igniting a storm of debate on the local internet over the rights and...
With Spring Festival now 2 weeks away, may the celebrations begin! And what better way than by once again hanging giant couplets celebrating the incoming new Chinese year, penned by Nanjing’s citizens, from our great city’s gates.
This year’s “Spring...
There have been shouts of, Sexism”, on the local Chinese internet of late, after a Nanjing wildlife park launched a promotion that comprised free entry for women, an incident which is highlighting a range of gender-discriminatory practices in China.
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They are tiny pieces of plastic less than 5 mm in length. Known as microplastics, they are inadvertently consumed by humans, but until now, the health consequences were largely unknown. That recently changed with the findings of a study...
What’s the worst thing about flying? The security check. But now, our own Lukou is among the airports in China to have rolled out a new initiative for passengers to bypass those long queues altogether and head straight for...
Young people in Nanjing are being called upon to consider general public values while showing their personality after an incident in which a man wearing Japanese anime clothing including a swastika was challenged in the city’s Xuanwu Lake Scenic...
