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Vote Now for Best Entry in the Coronavirus Art Competition!

The Expat “Stop the Coronavirus” Art Competition today enters its closing stages, with an invitation to the general public to vote for their favourite work(s) among the many submitted entries. Voting can be done via WeChat by following this...

China Back in the Skies as Airlines Begin Boycott of South Korea

With China over the worst of Covid-19, airlines are ramping up efforts to get people back to work, and themselves back to profitability. Yet, the move provides little relief, as airlines both domestic and foreign begin stopping flights to...

8 Decades of Volunteer Warriors Fight Covid-19 in Rural Nanjing

China’s approach to epidemic prevention has been implemented at every level of society, but there has been little media coverage of the efforts by rural communities and those of all ages who volunteer therein.  That changed yesterday with the publication...

Ticket Prices Soar as Korea & Japan Flights to Self Quarantine

With the 94 quarantined passengers who arrived Tuesday in Nanjing from Korea released this morning, all those coming from both Korea and Japan are now requested to do same at home, while prices for flights from Korea to China...

NUTCM Volunteer Students Make 2,000 Medicine Sachets for Wuhan

A group of 12 students from Nanjing University of Traditional Chinese Medicine (NUTCM) chose to spend their Spring Festival holiday helping coronavirus-stricken Wuhan. Together, they made 2,000 TCM sachets in just one week. The story began when, inside NUTCM, three...

¥19+ Million in Cash Seized in Crime Aided by Coronavirus

Nanjing Police have followed a 4,000-kilometre trail to Guizhou Province in tracking down and arresting a man who took advantage of the coronavirus situation to embezzle his employer of more than ¥19 million in various currencies. It was on the...

Arrest of Suspect in 28-Year-Old Nanjing Murder Case

The long-standing murder case of a Nanjing Medical University student has finally been broken by Nanjing Police. It was the various advances in analysing forensic evidence available today which led to the arrest of a man yesterday, 23 February,...

China GDP Growth in 2020 May Slump to 4.4 Percent

China may be triumphing in her fight of Covid-19, but the resulting shackling of the country’s industrial output is an economic disaster of epic proportions, one that may lead to a 2020 growth in GDP of as little as...

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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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