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Getting it all up & Running Again; Metro Lines & Buses Resume

With yesterday’s announcement that all parts of Nanjing are now deemed to be low risk, and confirmation this morning that yesterday saw no new cases, we can say with confidence that our city has triumphed once again. Time then...

Man Attempts Yangtze River Swim Home but Goes in Wrong Direction

Well known as the busiest waterway on Earth, the Yangtze River recently became the temporary home for yet another human being. No surprise there. But this one was different. This guy was trying to swim home. 众所周知,长江是地球上最繁忙的水道,最近又成为了另一个人类的临时家园。这并不奇怪。但这一次不同。这家伙正试图游回家。 People end up in...

Joe Biden would Identify with Nanjing Girls Selling Newspapers

Those who have learned of the entrepreneurial spirit by way of selling newspapers include the sitting President of the United States and two young girls who recently took to downtown Nanjing to do just that, inspiring many and learning...

I Ching Watermelons Driven 4,500KM to Help Locked-Down Nanjingers

Nanjing was earlier this week gifted four enormous truck loads of epidemic-relief supplies which had made a remarkable journey from distant Xinjiang. And it was all thanks to an initiative to support the region dating from more than a...

Fired! Airport Chairman & 4 Others Disciplined for COVID Failure

Heads are rolling in Nanjing to hold accountable those responsible for the COVID outbreak that is China’s worst since Wuhan. Among them, the airport’s chairman, general manager, head of epidemic prevention and directors of emergency rescue and ground services. Last...

7-Year-Old Nanjing Girl Thanks NAT Nurses in Viral Video Dance

Cute and surreal at the same. Yet if 2020 hadn’t happened, we would probably find this tale too incredulous to be real, too downright bizarre to be true. A 7-year-old girl, standing before HAZMAT-clad nurses, dancing. Had lunacy gripped Nanjing? Were the nurses there...

ZERO New Cases, but How Do We Keep it that Way? With a Tank!

With COVID now all but dead in Nanjing, we need be sure it does not once again return. And lend a hand to other areas in China now battling their own outbreak. Time for caterpillar tracks to come the...

Nanjing COVID Outbreak Update; Friday 6 August

Closing the week, it’s time to join hands and consolidate with our comrades in Wuhan. For we are the COVID capitals of China. While we now understand a little of your previous pain, we also have much in common...

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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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