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Nanjing Police Seize Thousands of Fake Train Tickets

17 January, ahead of Spring Festival, and Nanjing Police have seized 425 fake train tickets, 2,300 blank tickets, one computer and one ticket printer. Nanjing Railway Police department announced that it has arrested a gang in Changzhou’s Tianning District...

Thai Boat Explodes; 27 Nanjing Tourists Onboard

14 January, Thailand, a boat carrying 27 Chinese tourists from Nanjing and four local crew members exploded. A crew member is believed to have died with five other Nanjingers seriously injured. Thai newspapers have reported injured victims will receive 500,000...

Nanjing Pushes Out Poorly Performing International Students

Last week, students at Nanjing Normal University received notice that students without an attendance record of 70 percent for the semester will not have their visas renewed. English as a second language institutions in Australia as well as universities...

TCM Hospital in Nanjing Cures Leukemia

The Nanjing government has released an article that states a patient suffering from recurrent Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (otherwise known as ALL) has been cured following CAR-T (Chimeric Antigen Receptors) therapy at the Jiangsu Provincial Hospital of TCM (Traditional Chinese...

Scholarships for Nanjing Students; Educational Encouragement

Nanjing Normal University yesterday handed out approximately 64 government scholarships to its international students. Most students received the “normal” scholarship, which is understood to be the “visiting student” scholarship; around 15 others received a bachelor scholarship and 5 students...

Back to Cabs? Dopey Didi Drivers More Bother than Convenience

If you are a regular expat private car user in China, then you will have noticed a surge in cars without number plates. “I’m coming, but I don’t have a number plate, it’s stuck to the windscreen…look out for...

LGBT Choir Group Centre Stage at Nanjing Centre for Culture

7 January, and The Old Jiangsu University of Culture (江苏老文化大学), which is now the Jiangsu Centre for Culture in Nanjing, hosted its First performance of the New Jump Choir Group, to rave reviews. The group is made up of...

Nanjing Woman’s Face Rots After Botched Botox Injection

Nanjing has, in the last couple of years, become littered with plastic surgery hospitals. It feels as if there must be one on every corner now, offering women the chance at a higher-bridged nose, double eye lids or longer...

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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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