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Finnair Non Stop Nanjing-Helsinki Takes to the Skies

Northern Europe has just got a whole lot closer, with the launch of a direct air connection between Nanjing and Helsinki. The flight comes courtesy of Finnair, the Scandinavian country’s flag carrier. With its debut flight taking off from Helsinki...

Lhasa-Bound Pilot Sucked Out after Cockpit Windshield Shatters

On the morning of 14 May passengers and crew on board Sichuan Airlines flight 3U8633 from Chongqing to Lhasa, dramatically landed in Chengdu 1 hour after take-off, after the cockpit’s windshield smashed, causing the copilot to be partially sucked...

Nanjing “Elite Challenge” Tops for Chinese Cybersecurity

A Chinese cybersecurity mimic defence theory has surpassed odds by withstanding over 500,000 hacker attacks. The international challenge called Cyberspace Power, which ended on Saturday 12 May, was the first “Elite Challenge” on Cyber Mimic Defence capabilities and was...

Murder Suspect Suicide Sees Didi Services Suspended

Zhengzhou city police have confirmed that the 27-year-old male Didi driver suspected of killing a female flight attendant last week, was found to have committed suicide early Saturday morning. Police had been on a city-wide manhunt for the driver,...

Flight Attendant Murder; Didi Issues Apology Letter

A female flight attendant, who was traveling in a Didi car in Zhengzhou city, has been murdered in the middle of the night. When she failed to contact family members, her father filed a missing persons report on the...

Communist Housing Adopts “Rent-a-Lift” to Aid Elderly

“Production First, Livelihood Second”, China’s late premier Zhou Enlai was once famous for saying. For the large part, this described China’s attitude at the time to the comforts of modern housing. Mao and Deng era Soviet-style housing was, at...

Dating Profile Piracy; China’s Tinderish Troubles

With the rise of Tinder and its swipe left or right easy access, paddling through the singletons dating pool has never seemed easier. Nothing these days is as easy as it seems, however, and nothing ever comes without its...

Quack Placebo Effect or Traditional Chinese Medicine Conundrum?

Nanjing’s latest string of arrests, in connection to the production and commercialisation of counterfeit drugs, has revealed an alarming underbelly of uncontrollable fakers. Recently, one such group, detained in December, has been released on bail, a move which has...

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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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