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Badminton World Championship but 2 Weeks from Nanjing

Hot on the heels of the World Youth Volleyball U19 World Championship, held in Nanjing last week, comes the Badminton World Championship, on the horizon for 30 July until 5 August. The city of Nanjing has long touted itself as...

Psychological Support for China’s Left-Behind Children

During Nanjing’s hottest month, on 15 July, 2018, counsellors made their way out to the Huai’an countryside, in order to provide psychological support and training for the county’s left-behind children. Such is a phrase used to describe children who have...

Young Boy Dies in Nanjing Summer Household Fire

At 10:00 pm on 12 July, 2018, a young boy died in a summer household fire that broke out in Nanjing’s Jiangbei New Area. The apartment, which is in the Panjin Garden complex, was already up in flames by the...

Monkey Traffickers Caught in Northern Jiangsu

Suspected illegal merchant activity involving the precious Macaque monkey has been brought to light when the Haizhou police, of northern Jiangsu’s Lianyungang city, caught monkey traffickers trading online. According to Weibo’s Sina News, police launched a nationwide hunt for those...

Nanjing Foreign Student Dies Following Street Fight

At 2:40 am on Wednesday, 11 July, opposite Nanjing’s 1912 entertainment district, a street fight between a local Nanjing man and an international student from Pakistan tragically resulted in the student’s death. The student, identified by classmates as 26-year-old Moiz...

Nanjing’s Job Market Competition Sees Growth in Skills Over Manpower

The “Report on the Demand for Employers and White-Collar Talents in Nanjing for the Summer of 2018” has revealed that the average urban monthly salary in the city's job market has risen to ¥7,660. Nanjing government statistics for 2015 showed...

Nothing on the Menu; Tackling China’s Street Dogs Headache

The world has the general knowledge that the Chinese eat dog meat, and that dogs are not slaughtered in a humane manner. However, the world is also blissfully ignorant that China now has so many roaming street dogs, that...

High-Speed Train Sponsorship Reveals Future of Advertising

Many an alert reader may well have noticed that sponsorship has started appearing on the exterior of China’s now-legendary, high-speed trains. As the most visible sign of a future trend in advertising, the move once again serves to illustrate...

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China’s Metro Map Grows by Almost 65km Ahead of National Day

China’s National Day holiday has arrived with three cities adding new metro links. Nanjing, Qingdao and Changchun have opened...

Shanghai’s Railway Map Shifts East; Cross City to Hongqiao soon but a Memory

For years, Shanghai’s high-speed rail map has pulled passengers towards Hongqiao. That balance is beginning to change. New stations...

Shiseido Sues Aldi over a ¥24.9 Primer that Resembles Its ¥540 Rival

Shiseido has sued Aldi China, the product's manufacturer and an Aldi Shanghai store operator over unfair competition, arguing that...

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