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Automated High-Speed Train to Take us to Great Wall of China!

The 2022 Winter Olympics might seem like a long way off, but that has not stopped China from rolling out nothing less than a fully-automated, high-speed train service to a key venue for the Olympics, one that will happily...

From Nanjing to Shanghai; Nothing Quite Like Italian Design

Now a regular fixture on the Shanghai exhibition circuit, Italian Design Icons (IDI) has its roots in Nanjing’s foreign community, when a boutique expat law firm set its sights on Shanghai, from both a legal and design perspective. Held from...

Nanjing Home to World’s Fastest Train (and Second Fastest, btw!)

It will come as no surprise that China is home to the world’s fastest trains. The “fastest of the fast” is another story, however, as a recently-released report has revealed that title goes to a train with its principal...

110 kg Nanjing Student Loses 40 kg in 3-Month Fitness Diet

A student at Nanjing Tech University has revealed his secret for the ultimate weight loss. For many, there will be little surprise that the magic lies, not in a new-fangled food, but in nothing more than a good old...

Top Chinese “Climbers” to Compete in Nanjing’s Vertical Marathon

This week in Nanjing looks set to be book ended by two marathons, beginning as it did with the Nanjing Marathon on Sunday and ending this coming Sunday, with one of a less-horizontal variety, namely a climb up one...

NIS Becomes 6th School Worldwide to Offer Global Citizen Diploma

Yesterday, 12 November, saw an inspiring ceremony take place at Nanjing International School (NIS), as the launch celebration for the school’s rolling out of the Global Citizen Diploma (GCD), only the sixth school in the world to offer the...

Cardboard Policemen; Will Nanjing Motorists Ever Obey them?

A few years back, Nanjing’s traffic authorities introduced a regulation stating that motorists must stop for pedestrians using crossings that are not controlled by lights. If the crossing is controlled by lights, the pedestrians are obliged to wait for...

Nanjing Marathon Squeezes 30,000 Runners Through Zhonghua Men

Nanjing’s annual marathon took place yesterday, 10 November, 2019, with competitors taking part from not only our fair city of Nanjing itself, but also from all over China, and far, far further afield as well. Indeed, it was to...

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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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