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Girl’s Suicide Goaded by Jeering Onlookers

On Thursday, 21 June, a 19-year-old girl sat on the edge of the roof of an eight-floor mall in Qingyang, Gansu Province, and listened peacefully to the jeering of onlookers for her to go ahead and commit suicide. The...

Smoking Scenes in Chinese Movies a Dying Breed

Smoking scenes in Chinese movies and television series are seeing a major decline. While the country itself is still the world’s largest tobacco consumer, the film and television industry is slowly making steps towards a more smoke-free viewing experience. 20...

Nanjing Hosts World Women’s Volleyball Championships

Nanjing will be playing host to the first ever Volleyball Women's Nations League Finals starting Wednesday, 27 June, as inaugural championship for the Volleyball Nations League. Teams from Brazil and the United States are highly favoured to win, as the...

More than a Mall; Nanjing’s Attempts Thrilling Theme Park Future

For China expats, time, money and location are important determining factors that often make it difficult to step out and enjoy their adopted city. In Nanjing, it is also little wonder that many might think the city is becoming...

Is Jiangsu Environmental Plan on Track? Recent Bust Confirms It

Perhaps spurred on by the central government’s 3-year environmental plan, residents living nearby a factory in Xinyi town, Xuzhou city in the north of Jiangsu province, have alerted local authorities to a strong odour, which they suspected was the...

Closing the High-Tech International Gap in Nanjing; Maybe Not

Over the last 18 months, a series of grand-sounding announcements have been made regarding the establishment of high-tech manufacturing plants in Nanjing, collectively worth almost US$36 billion. As of now, the proposals are beginning to look more and more...

Spice up Your Summer; 17 Cross-Country Travel Trains to Open

Nanjing is one of the lucky recipient cities of a recent decision by the Shanghai Railway Group to open up 17 new designated Travel Trains, that will run between the summer months of July and August in 2018. Essentially charter...

National Taiji Championship Closes in Nanjing

The past 3 days have seen the National Taiji Championship take place in Nanjing’s Gaochun District. A total of 314 Taijiquan (a.k.a. Tai Chi) masters from nine provinces and cities, including Shanghai, Zhejiang and Guangdong participated in the show, reports...

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Baby on Board in High Speed Train Emergency Delivered by Urologist into Nanjing

Mid-journey between Shanghai and Nanjing, a routine high-speed train service turned into an improvised delivery room, when a lady...

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:...

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