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Old Man in Wuhan Snapped Viewing Last Sunset Cured of Covid-19

After more than 2 months in a Wuhan hospital bed, an 87-year-old man who had become a star on the internet for for his moving gaze at a sunset, was today pronounced cured and discharged from hospital. 因夕阳下的动人眼神而成为网红的87岁老人,在武汉医院病床上躺了两个多月后,今天宣布治愈出院。 It all began...

World’s Biggest & Most-Advanced ECO Cargo Ship Built by Nanjing

The second of six environmentally-friendly cargo ships for a private Italian shipping company has slid down the slipway of top Nanjing shipbuilder, Jinling Shipping, a launch made possible by a giant Yangtze River dredging project. Over the past 5-10 years, the Yangtze...

Opulent Chinese Charter Dreamliner to Bring Kids Back from UK

With Covid-19 now putting the world’s largest and most fragile communities in harm’s way, rich Chinese have been pulling out their wallets to bring children studying abroad home. In one case, the world’s only private Boeing 787 Dreamliner was...

Scared of Killer Bees? Stay Away from the Nanjing Insect Museum

Giant centipedes, killer caterpillars, blood-sucking tsete flies, venomous harvester ants and yes, killer bees, could be among the exhibits at the Nanjing Purple Mountain Insect Museum, setting out to answer the why, where, when and how of our invertebrate...

Zoo Location has Citizens Up in Arms over Threat from Virus

Wild animals have always been a controversial topic in China. In Nanjing, the close proximity of the Hongshan Zoo extension to housing has provoked outcry from local residents. Among their worries; noise, smell and coronavirus. The real estate company's propaganda...

11,800 Km Airlift; Nanjing via Alaska to New York and Michigan!

Nanjing is once again playing its part in helping to provide medical aid to assist with coronavirus fighting efforts in other countries. This time, it’s the USA as benefactor, with an airlift organised by private enterprises in the world’s...

500 Metres High! Tallest Building in Nanjing Set for Change

Nanjing’s iconic Zifeng Tower now has to live with the idea that, in just a few years, it will no longer be the tallest building in the city, as plans emerge for the new holder of the title that...

Near-Earth Asteroid Just 144,000Km Distant Discovered by Nanjing

Nanjing’s Purple Mountain Observatory has discovered a football field-sized asteroid that came as close as 144,000 kilometres to the Earth last weekend. The asteroid swept the world by at 4:38:24 am on 23 March, Beijing time. The Near Earth Object...

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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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