On 31 August the Nanjing Bureau of City Planning held a joint panel discussion with selected foreign representatives at the bureau’s offices in Gulou. The aim of the discussion was to ask for input from the foreign community with...
Monday saw Japanese convenience store Lawson’s opened its doors in Nanjing for the first time, and not in one, but five separate locations. Lawson’s plan to open another 300 stores around the city in the next...
This past Saturday evening, after another impressive over-the-top China style opening ceremony, the torch was ignited to signify the start of the 13th National Games of the People’s Republic of China in Tianjin. Among the participants, in addition to...
Deep into the evening of 24 August, a truck over loaded with cats crammed aboard trundled out of Nanjing city on the G4211 Ningma (Nanjing-Ma’anshan) Highway. Suspicious police pulled the truck over and detained the driver and cats. A...
An unassuming and sparsely populated industrial estate on the far flung outskirts of Nanjing received an ultra-modern facelift this month. Some scrappy bridge railings were considered old and dangerous and in need of a good remake. Instead of using...
From 16 thru 31 August, cooperation between the Traffic Management Office of the Nanjing Public Security Bureau, the Bank of Nanjing and Mobike, is bringing about an exciting and innovative new initiative in order to promote further green travel....
At this time of year, international schools all over the world are beginning the new academic year. For most, it is back to grind, and straight into another year of classes that are even more taxing than the last....
It was the morning of 19 November, 1995, and not far from Nanjing in the city of Huzhou, slept the people of a small guesthouse positioned at the end of the road. In one of the...
