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Darn Tourists Cause Permanent Damage to Nanjing Cultural Relic

Nanjing citizens are outraged after a recent incident in which an icon of our city on Purple Mountain dating from the Ming Dynasty was left scarred, most likely for life. Tourists visiting Nanjing are thought to be the culprits. 南京市民对最近发生的一起事件感到愤怒,事件中紫金山上一座明朝的城市标志被留下了伤痕累累,很可能是终生的。来南京旅游的游客被认为是罪魁祸首。 It...

Exposed! Fog Cannon Trucks Caught Falsifying Monitoring Data

Media in China have come out crying fraud and for those responsible to be held accountable in an intriguing case from our very own Jiangsu Province involving the use of fog cannon trucks to ensure that monitoring data meets...

Mother Sues Daughter for Not Visiting Enough; Wins Case

China is a filial society; we get it. But a landmark legal case has recently emerged to show us just how much it is so. Here in Jiangsu, a senior lady has successfully convinced a court her daughter must...

After Daughter’s Death, NJ’s “Fat Brother” Hero Gives Back; Food

Heroes come in all shapes and sizes. For one young Nanjing man, that’s meant turning sacrifice, suffering and ultimately, tragedy, in the space of 2 short years, in to an instrument for the betterment of others who may have...

Nanjing Protection Plan to List Roads that will Never be Widened

Every so often in Nanjing, one ventures down a road not visited in some time, generating the reaction, “Wow, look, they widened the street”. The scene is more orderly with more space and less muddle. But a new plan...

Foreigners Present Statue Pair to Sex Slave Museum in Nanjing

Nanjing’s darkest period in its history is back in headlines as China and the USA came together as one this past weekend, in recognition of the various tragedies suffered by women across Asia at the hands of the Japanese...

Why Nanjing’s Zoo has COVID to Thank for Total 180 in Fortunes

When COVID descended upon us, it quickly looked like it was going to be curtains for our local Zoo. All income had been cut off overnight but the expenses of caring for their animals remained. Now, it’s basking in...

German Students Descend on Nanjing; Education Exchange is Back!

High schoolers studying Chinese in Leipzig realised a milestone the past week for their being the first trip here made by a particular learning institute in Germany in over 3 years. They made the most of it too, with...

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Iranians in China become more Visible than Countable

These things often start, not with a statistic, but with a voice; Persian heard in a lift, a WeChat...

Why Chinese Men Can’t Quit; Smoking, Face and the State

China has 300 million smokers, nearly a third of the world's total. The imbalance between the sexes is stark:...

US Dept of Justice Says Nanjing Firm Hacked NASA, Senate & More

A sharp new cyber case has put a Nanjing company at the centre of a much wider political row....

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