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No More Frozen Freebies; Nanjing Customs Clamps Down

The new year brought with it Nanjing customs’ collection of ¥200 million worth of frozen food bound for Wuxi, Suzhou and Kunshan. It has emerged that frozen seafoods in the main, such as 8,000 tonnes of shrimp, cuttlefish and...

Bird Nest Imports Boil at Nanjing Lukou Airport

Nanjing’s Quarantine and Inspection department of Lukou Airport has issued a warning to travellers regarding the import of bird nests. On 2nd January, at Nanjing Lukou International Airport, a young tour guide, having just disembarked a flight from Thailand,...

First Nanjing Snows of the Year Biggest in a Decade

As evening settled and darkness fell in Nanjing on Wednesday, so the temperature finally plummeted and the rains began a flurry. Thus this morning, the city awoke to a thick snowfall, the first of this winter and 2018. Even at...

Natural Gas Supplies Under Threat as Nanjing Makes the Switch

As the deep of winter approaches, many people are concerned with temperatures dropping below zero and what that means for the use of gas in their neighbourhood. Many worry about whether civil gas supplies can be guaranteed throughout the...

Nanjing Newspaper Employees Hip Hop Stars in the Making

State media in China has a particularly vintage feel to it, as its machinery clicks and clanks into motion, churning out story after story in a rather old fashioned and wordy manner. Thus, it is refreshing to see these...

17 Hour Kidnap Ends in Nanjing; Girl Rescued By Police

A young girl (Xiao Zhang) has been found at a hotel in Nanjing’s downtown Qixia District, after having been kidnapped and held for ransom for 17 hours. The girl had been interning in neighbouring Wuhu, Anhui province, when she called...

Man Inherits Taobao Shop; Virtual Notorisation Becoming a Must

A Mr. Wang of Donghai County in Lianyungang, this month became the first person in his city to inherit an online shop. The shop, which had been fully authenticated and was run in his mother’s name, continued to be a...

Nanjing Seniors Swindled; Investment Bosses Sentenced to Life

Picking on the elderly is not a new way to extract fast and easy money, for wherever they grow affluent, the lowest of criminals will be waiting. In China, investment fraud is fast becoming one of the country’s biggest...

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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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