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I Swear I will Never Leave My Power Bank in the Car Ever Again

Cars on fire have become a bit of a recurring theme in Nanjing these past days, as spontaneous combustion and a mobile phone power bank have been the reasons handed down for three vehicles catching fire in the city...

Not 1 Death as Every Last COVID Patient Released from Hospital

It’s officially over. This week has seen the final two patients suffering from the Delta variant of COVID discharged from hospital in Nanjing. They join hundreds of others given the all clear to make Jiangsu Province now once again...

Nanjing in Matrix Resurrections; is Keanu back for Noodles?

Featuring a well-known Chinese restaurant that bears our city’s name, a first trailer for the upcoming blockbuster for year end has been released. Keanu Reeves and Carrie-Anne Moss are back as Neo and Trinity, for Matrix Resurrections. In the first...

Massive Quarantine Centre being Built in Nanjing Just in Case

The tagline, “For Peacetime and War” is being applied to a new facility to be constructed near Lukou Airport. And with such a slogan, that can only mean one thing; an enormous quarantine facility. Because the repercussions were it...

Track Laying Begins on Nanjing’s Fully Automated Metro Line 7

They call it the “Transfer King”. And when it opens, it will also be the first fully automated, driverless metro line in Nanjing. Construction has now entered its final major phase; track laying along the entire length of the...

Nurse Kneels on Gurney; Gives CPR in Corridor, in Lift, in Lobby

Even the script writers for “Grey’s Anatomy” or “ER” would have a hard time in coming up with the scenario that played out in a Nanjing hospital last week. And we have a star nurse in particular to thank...

Boy Falls from 2F in Nanjing Mall Riding Escalator Handrail

Those signs that say, “No climbing on the escalator”, are there for good reason. Because in the average shopping mall, it’s a five-metre drop to the floor below. And this is what a young boy in Nanjing experienced a...

Brakes Fail on Pregnant Woman’s Car in Nanjing at High Speed

Fact is better than fiction. Especially when real life plays out just as well as it does in the movies. That’s just what happened in Nanjing last week, in a race against the clock to avert disaster as the...

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China’s Brain Banks Need Donors as Human Tissue Reveals Dementia Clues

China’s human brain banks are still struggling to attract donors more than a decade after the first facilities opened,...

Car-Bed Campers Turn Hotel Car Parks into Free Showers and Toilets

Chinese road trippers are swapping hotel rooms for the back seats of their own cars, folding them flat into...

China’s Metro Map Grows by Almost 65km Ahead of National Day

China’s National Day holiday has arrived with three cities adding new metro links. Nanjing, Qingdao and Changchun have opened...

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