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Wine Fakes Flicked Before Consumer Rights Day

Jiangsu is going flat out before the clock strikes 12 on China’s nationwide 3.15 Consumer Rights Day to clear out all “fakes”. This all encompassing word for anything “non-officially” produced has seen fake designer labels, cars, DVDs, and even tickets...

DNA Helps Police Snatch Murderer on Eve of Release for Theft

Police in Northern Jiangsu’s Lianyungang city have used DNA to find the culprit in a long standing murder and rape case right under their very nose, or bars, as it turns out. To be exact, the perpetrator of the...

Nanjing Metro Line 6 Approved to Tunnel Under Forbidden City

The powers that be, Sunday 11th March, issued regulatory approval that give the go ahead for Nanjing Metro Line 6. However, it is a decision that shall continue to spark controversy, particularly among enthusiastic proponents for the protection of...

Price Wars! Meituan Takes on the Mighty Didi in Nanjing

“Mei niu? Which APP did you use to book my car?” Considering it a rather odd question, I answered that Didi Chuxing was the APP I had used. “You should start using Meituan, the price is really cheap and...

Nanjing Woman Uses Skin Whitener Product; Suffers Kidney Failure

The desire for pale skin in China has come at a detrimental cost to one Nanjing woman, who has been diagnosed with kidney failure after exposure to mercury while using a whitening product for 2 months. Identified only as Ms....

House of Failure? Nanjing Owner Dumps Flailing Store

It was the sale of the century and the talk of the town when House of Fraser was sold to the Chinese, and a local Nanjing company at that. Now, however, the honeymoon is well and truly over. Brick and...

Is it a Bike? Is it a Plane? Or is it a High Speed Train?

What’s blue and white and goes 299 kilometres per hour at Nanjing Lukou International Airport? China Southern Airlines, right? Wrong. The correct answer is in fact a motorcyclist racing along at two and half times the speed limit. As reported by...

Zhou Enlai@120; The Local Connection Lives On

Memorial activities have been taking place at Nanjing’s Meiyuanxincun today, in honour of Zhou Enlai, the first Premier of the People’s Republic of China, on this, what would have been his 120th birthday. Fittingly, today is also the 21st anniversary...

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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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