Enter into a conversation with someone from Banqiao about the Nanjing Metro, drop in the words, “Line 8”, and be more-than-likely met with a response comprising a scowl and a bunch of expletives. Forgive them; they’ve been waiting since...
Electric bikes are back in the headlines after two deaths in Beijing, once again the result of improper topping up of the vehicles’ batteries. The message is simple; don’t take batteries home to charge. Or face considerable penalties.
在北京发生两人死亡事件后，电动自行车再次成为头条新闻，这再次是由于车辆电池充电不当造成的。消息很简单；不要把电池带回家充电。或面临巨额处罚。
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Tour de France, Vuelta a Espana and Giro d’Italia; the triple crown of cycling. Next month, Italy’s premier biking competition returns to the Yangtze River Delta, meaning that some very serious cyclists in China are getting ready to “Ride...
Given the weather yesterday, it was unlikely to have been an issue on Tomb Sweeping Day itself this year, but the glorious past weekend in fact gave rise to no less than three forest fires in just one city,...
With Tomb Sweeping Day falling tomorrow, a Wednesday, and there neither being any working days the weekend either side, many are choosing to make it a 5-day break. It’s a combination setting records across the Yangtze River Delta rail...
A 9-year old boy from Xuzhou in our very own Jiangsu Province has broken the world record for the fastest-average time to solve a 3x3x3 rotating puzzle, also known famously as the Rubik’s Cube, with a staggering time of 4.69...
Continuing to make up for its 3 years in the doldrums, China’s airline industry is to also now see the reintroduction of flights to and from Taiwan. For us in Nanjing, that translates to flights to both Taipei and...
Tremendous courage has been rewarded in the past few days following the actions of a teacher in Huai’an of Jiangsu Province, seeing him risk third-degree burns and possibly life itself, in order to prevent an entire residential block going...
