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Student Murdered on Campus in Nanjing; is Society Breaking Down?

Shock has spread across Nanjing in the past 24 hours, with the news of a student stabbed to death in our City on campus. Such a murder within a student community has citizens concerned over an increasingly-brutal sentiment in...

Asia’s Most Massive! Capturing 500,000 Tonnes of CO2

China’s carbon-peak and neutrality goals are a step closer to being realised, with the opening of a massive carbon-capture project in our neck of the woods; a somewhat small, but significant step at capping emissions in the country’s coal-fired,...

Smoke on the Metro! Line 2 User Says Stinks Like Burning Rubber

Nanjing Metro Line 2 takes a lot of people to go about their business every day. Approximately 600,000 citizens rode its trains yesterday, 5 June. For some though, the journey between Zhongling Jie and Maqun stations turned out to...

Hot Topic! What Do Doctors Do in an Earthquake During Surgery?

Turns out many people have wondered what does a doctor do when they are operating on a patient and an earthquake takes place. After all, while this happens relatively often, it’s a job that, more than any other, calls...

Be Alert! AI Deepfake Fraud is Real; It’s Happening in Nanjing

Genuine concern is mounting in China over AI-generated deepfakes which have been successfully used to defraud innocent people out of, in some cases, millions of renminbi, in literally seconds. A case in Nanjing has brought the threat worryingly close...

Man Drives BMW into River to Defraud Insurers (w/Stupid Mistake)

Insurance fraud is hardly new, but driving a top-end car into a river and completely submerging it is pushing the limits of both foolhardiness and safety. And being silly enough to virtually announce it to the world beforehand really...

Why Can’t Chinese Men Quit Smoking? Even on World No Tobacco Day

Today is World No Tobacco Day, the World Heath Organisation’s annual initiative to help people stop smoking and inform as to the business practices of tobacco companies. This year, its theme is, “Grow food, not tobacco”. But where do we...

Humid, Hot and a Hit! 2,000 Visitors to 2023 BSN Summer Fair

Some blessings from above came down on The British School of Nanjing over the weekend, when a forecast downpour upon the Summer Fair failed to materialise, preferring to keep itself locked up as extreme humidity, so that it could all...

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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:...

US Dept of Justice Says Nanjing Firm Hacked NASA, Senate & More

A sharp new cyber case has put a Nanjing company at the centre of a much wider political row....

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