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Elderly Care Dispute Highlights Growing Social Change in Nanjing

Protesting residents of a community in Xuanwu district have led to the dismissal of development plans for a new nursing home/hospice, that was to be located on Hongshan Jie in northern Nanjing. The ongoing issue over the development of...

Is Didi Doomed? China’s Uber Meets New Challenges

It used to be that it could be impossible to find a cab in Nanjing, especially if it was raining, or 6pm. Contrast this with today's situation, in which thousands of taxis go literally unused for the whole day,...

Nanjinger Jailed in US for Insider Trading

Google searches into insider trading have landed a Nanjing man in an American jail for 15 to 30 months. The imprisoned has also been ordered to forfeit $119,429 of the proceeds that were made as a result of his...

Mental Ilness Shame Leads Man To Murder Wife

July 2017 a 46-year-old woman was murdered by her 55-year-old husband at their home in Xiping Village, Yangzhou. Today’s sentencing of the case highlights China’s struggle with accepting and getting help for people with mental illnesses. The couple were thought...

Pain of Childbirth Experienced First-Hand by Nanjing Men

Men have little, if any, comprehension of the pain of childbirth. That all changed in Nanjing, China, on 28 March, as three brave representatives of the male gender underwent, somewhat unsubtly, a kind of electroconvulsive therapy to learn of...

Counterfeit Viagra Sales Raise Side-Effect Concerns

With 1 in 4 men suffering from erectile dysfunction in China, sales of viagra are on the up. Fearing the embarrassment of consulting a doctor in regards to such issues, Chinese men are increasingly turning to popular online retail...

Disaster Preparedness Program to be Offered in Nanjing

The Saifu City Museum, located in the Jiangbei New Area of Nanjing, is introducing its first disaster preparedness program that offers participants real-life emergency rescue experience. Whether a person is stuck in an elevator, on a subway that has...

Cambridge University and Nanjing Launch Strategic Collaboration

A new joint centre between the University of Cambridge and Nanjing Centre of Technology and Innovation will support innovative research into smart cities and fully integrated urban environments. The creation of such shall see the establishment of a joint research...

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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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