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4 Minutes to Save Lives! AEDs Now in 35 Nanjing Metro Stations

The Nanjing Metro system has joined the growing list of cities in China to have installed Automated External Defibrillators (AEDs) therein for public use in cases of sudden cardiac arrest, in a move that highlights growing awareness for the...

WANTED! Mascot for Nanjing World IAAF Indoor Championships

At the start of the recent 100-day countdown until the 2020 Nanjing World IAAF Indoor Championships, both the event’s logo and slogan were revealed, confirming that Nanjing is on track to deliver another  exceptional international sporting tournament. From 13 March to...

Fluffy Festivities! Annual Pyjama Festival Hits Nanjing

As alert readers of The Nanjinger may have noticed, the coming of December in Nanjing is marked by the traditional observance of the annual Pyjama Festival, from now until some time in April next year. While many a foreign man...

Nanjing Massacre Mourning Ritual; the Need to Know for 13 Dec

The 82nd anniversary of the Nanjing Massacre shall be held this Friday, 13 December, entailing, as usual, a number of symbolic rituals by way of respect to the hundreds of thousands who perished in that which was the bleakest...

Ordos Signs Contracts Worth ¥55 Billion in Nanjing

Once dubbed "Ghost Town", the Inner-Mongolian city of Ordos this week held its 2019 Ordos Targeted Investment Promotion event for processing industries in Nanjing, signing cooperation projects worth a total of ¥55.48 billion, 34 percent of which shall directly...

Hamburg-Xi’an in 12 Days; China BRI Speeds Europe-Asia Freight

A new intercontinental shipping service, launched by DHL Global Forwarding and Xi’an International that can speed container freight between Hamburg and Xi’an in 12 days or less, is a less-publicised, but more positive manifestation of China’s Belt & Road...

World Famous for Naked Run, Nanjing Boy Graduates College Age 11

A Nanjing boy who sprang to international fame in 2012, after his father forced him to run almost naked in the snows of New York, has graduated with a college degree, now aged just 11-years old. On 2 December, He...

Domestic Violence in 30% of Families, Says Nanjing Women’s Group

A Nanjing women’s rights organisation has helped bring to light the extent of domestic violence in China, through the publication of a white paper on the prevention and suppression of domestic violence. 南京的一个妇女权利组织通过出版一份关于预防和制止家庭暴力的白皮书,帮助揭示了中国家庭暴力的程度。 The conclusion, long suspected, but rarely confirmed in actual...

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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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