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Local Expat Student Advertises World’s Biggest Crane Co.

A student at The British School of Nanjing is starring in a new television commercial for the world’s fifth largest construction machinery business. Carol Potgieter, in year 5 at BSN, appears with her father and others in the new video...

British School Chooses Chinese Pitch for its National Game

28th May, 2016, saw the British School of Nanjing in China hold their ninth annual Summer Fair, the first major event to be held at their brand new state of the art facility, featuring a new artificial grass pitch...

Water and Air Events to Dominate Dragon Boat Festival

As the nation prepares for a well earned three day break for the Duanwu Festival (it’s back to work on Sunday, folks), also known as the Dragon Boat Festival, so Nanjingers ponder where to spend that valuable and limited...

Exhibition on works of Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dali held in Jiangsu

People walk past aposter at the entrance of an exhibition of Spanish artist Pablo Picasso and Salvador Dali in Nantong, east China's Jiangsu Province, May 31, 2016. A total of 86 paintings, prints, sculptures and porcelain works of Pablo...

What Did Your Childhood Taste Like?

Children’s Day is here once again. While it may be the perfect time for the little ones to blackmail their parents for an iPad, in the good old days, all what they wanted was a 4 cent Horse-Head Popsicle....

Deputy Consul Stops off at Nanjing’s Foreign Media Company

The new British Deputy Consul General Shanghai, Mr. Tony Clemson, has spent the last two days in Nanjing, and chose the SinoConnexion (Hefu Media) offices as one of just a few stops on this, his first of many trips...

150-year-old Murals Unveiled in Nanjing

Tangzijie, a place notorious for selling second-hand (stolen) bikes in Nanjing has a chance to clear its name. After half a century of preservation, 24 original murals from the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Era (1850-1864) were unveiled on Tangzijie last...

College in Nantong buys A320 for students

An Airbus A320 aircraft from France landed at Nantong Airport on the evening of May 14 and it will become a member of Jiangsu College of Engineering and Technology. The aircraft will settle in the Airport Industrial Park in Nantong...

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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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