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Compensation Thirst Inspires Mass Village Divorce

Making way for a high-tech development zone, a village in Pukou District’s Jiangbei area is to be demolished. With that comes compensation, and with that comes divorce. Residents of the village in Nanjing’s northern suburbs have...

Nanjing Wins Rights to Host 2018 World Badminton Championships

The Badminton World Federation (BWF) on Saturday awarded host status for the BWF World Championships in 2018 to the city of Nanjing. The March 18 press conference in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, revealed that the championships will...

Just Reward for 18 Years Spent Looking at Stone Animals

With its 12 animal zodiacal signs, China's love affair with the animal kingdom is taken by some to extremes. Now, Nanjing photography enthusiast Cao Qingchun, who has visited over 100 stone animal sites in Jiangsu, documenting...

China Job Market; 80 Percent Seek New Jobs but Confidence High

Spring has sprung, and the chances are Nanjing’s white collar employees are thinking about hopping off to what they see as greener pastures. While job hopping levels in China remain sky high on an annual basis,...

Didi English Service in Trial Run

Halleluiah, traveling about town just got so much easier! Owners of Uber China and Didi Chuxing have this month set about testing the taxi hailing APP’s English interface. Somewhat suspicious when I used the app the other day; it...

Top Transplant Specialist Stabbed in Nanjing Hospital

The morning of 17th February began at 8.30am with a vicious attack on one of Nanjing’s most senior liver transplant specialists. The doctor suffered a stab to his left leg, fractured jaw and mouth lacerations during...

Bird Flu Spread from Warmer Winter Focussed on Jiangsu

It is the time of year when the dreaded flu of birds rears its ugly head. This year, the excessively mild winter has exaggerated the problem, leading to increased numbers of cases, and ultimately, deaths in humans. ...

US$30 Billion Microchip Investment in Nanjing Too Good to be True

If you want something done right, do it yourself. Thwarted by their attempts to acquire foreign microchip production companies to satisfy China's vast appetite, one massive domestic private company is proclaiming that it shall itself invest US$30 billion into...

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China’s Metro Map Grows by Almost 65km Ahead of National Day

China’s National Day holiday has arrived with three cities adding new metro links. Nanjing, Qingdao and Changchun have opened...

Shanghai’s Railway Map Shifts East; Cross City to Hongqiao soon but a Memory

For years, Shanghai’s high-speed rail map has pulled passengers towards Hongqiao. That balance is beginning to change. New stations...

Shiseido Sues Aldi over a ¥24.9 Primer that Resembles Its ¥540 Rival

Shiseido has sued Aldi China, the product's manufacturer and an Aldi Shanghai store operator over unfair competition, arguing that...

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