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4000 Join “Cedar” and China’s Fastest Man for New Year's Day Run

Nanjing’s annual New Year’s Day Run was held yesterday, 1 January, providing a perfect backdrop to introduce Cedar, the mascot for the upcoming world indoor athletic championships, to be held in the city in just over 2 months time. Over...

Sport and Culture Dominate Nanjing’s Top Stories of 2019

Looking back over The Nanjinger’s headlines for 2019, it is quickly apparent that above all, sport and culture have been the top stories in which Nanjing has hit the headlines. Worth remembering that the last 12 months has brought...

Non-Stop from Nanjing Lukou Now to 19 Countries & 31 Cities

As the year closes, so it is nice to look forward to 2020 and the places we may soon visit, Nanjing being in the dead-centre of Asia. In Nanjing Lukou International Airport, we are blessed with an ever-increasing selection...

Drug Use by Foreign Students Targeted in New “Law Abiding” Video

Fighting, theft and illicit drug use are among the topics covered in a lively promotional video recently released by local authorities that aims to familiarise foreign students with the laws of China and the impact thereof on daily student...

“No Homework Policy” by Education Bureau Enrages Nanjing Parents

Parents outraged at the Education Bureau’s recent implementation of a policy that significantly reduces the workload for primary, middle, and high school students, have given rise to the latest hot topic on the Chinese internet; "It’s hard to be...

440 Million Rail Journeys Expected During Chinese New Year 2020

With train tickets now on sale for the 2020 Spring Festival holiday in China, the rail network is bracing itself for 440 million trips made nationwide, but the mad rush for tickets means that most of the popular routes...

Couple Takes 26 Years to Photograph Nanjing Massacre Mourning

An Octogenarian and nonagenarian couple who have documented the Nanjing Massacre Memorial through photographs for 26 years has found that the two of them, in the process, have also told the tale of their own lives. Liu Jianzhi (刘健芝), 92,...

Old Nanjing Hands United in Preserving Nanjing Massacre Memory

As more countries host events to honour those who perished in the Nanjing Massacre that marks its 82nd anniversary today, so too do hitherto unheard tales of heroism emerge that unite humanity across time and space. This time last year,...

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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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