It is a truth generally acknowledged that Nanjing is one of the cities with the lowest crime rate in China. Nevertheless, theft is a persisting problem, increasingly so running up to Chinese New Year. The approach...
While China has held its Third Plenum that is intended as a road map for the country’s next round of development spanning economics, political and social spheres, its intents for many China watchers, or indeed most of its intended,...
With summer over and the days turning darker, many marriages also start to crack. In Nanjing alone, 18,000 couples were divorced during the first six months of this year, and the worst is yet to come. A whopping...
Monday 11th November is Single’s Day in China (11/11), hallmarking the pressure on young Chinese to find a suitable partner in the national dating pool. In 2011 the number of singletons in China reached a staggering 180 million, with...
Expats moving to China are the most unhappy expats in the world, while those heading to Canada are among the happiest, a new report has recently revealed. Yet, in a follow on survey over the happiness of expats in...
Outstanding achievement does not even begin to describe the exam result for Hyung Suk Lee in his Cambridge IGCSE First Language Korean which he took in June 2013. Hyung Suk, or Harrison as he is known to his friends,...
When Carlo D’Andrea met Jiangsu governor Li Xueyong on 16th September (see photo below), he was doing much more than fulfilling his role as Chairman of the board EUCCC Nanjing Chapter. In a first that saw Mr. D’Andrea present...
As we this week passed the 300 day countdown to the Youth Olympics approaching and Chinese citizens clamour for healthier lifestyles, Nanjing’s so called greenification program is now in overdrive. Yet there remain calls that question its efficiency in...
