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They Stole Your GPS Location Data & Sold it to Debt Collectors

Two men who could have been selling your location information to debt collectors (not that readers of The Nanjinger owe anyone anything, of course) have been up in court in Nanjing, receiving stiff penalties, in the very first case...

Nanjing-Hong Kong by High Speed Train; just 8 Hours 27 Minutes!

Scared of flying? Or perhaps you might just fancy seeing the scenery along the way? For taking a train from our chunk of eastern China all the way to Hong Kong has recently become quite a talking point. With good...

500 KG of Free Strawberries for Lishui Half Marathon Runners!

What’s included in the price of entering a marathon? A bib, entry into the timekeeping system and a certificate/medal of participation are all commonplace, but at one marathon in Nanjing, runners also receive free strawberries. 参加马拉松比赛的费用包括什么?号码布、进入计时系统和参赛证书/奖牌都是司空见惯的事情,但在南京的一场马拉松比赛中,跑者还获得了免费的草莓。 The 2023 Nanjing Lishui Half...

Square Dancing Seniors Taking to Roads Presents Serious Danger

Seen the dancing old ladies (and sometimes men) in the evening? And perhaps early morning? Of course you have. And that’s the problem. They’re everywhere. But most worrying of all, some have even taken to our city’s roads to...

Bali Break? Flights out of Nanjing Hottest Tickets this Easter

Tomb Sweeping Day falls this year on 5 April, coinciding with the Easter break for many international schools. That’s the hot duo, combined with a rediscovered lust for travel, initiating an aircraft to very soon take to the skies...

Wife Murders Husband; Hides Body in Ice Chest for 15 Months

Suzhou in our very own Jiangsu has been the sene of a most gruesome discovery in recent days. That’s where a woman has surrendered to the authorities after her husband’s dead body was found in an ice chest in...

Bangkok, Siem Reap; Here We Come! New Destinations for Summer!

We’ve waited long enough. For that, our reward is a summer schedule of flights out of Lukou which will take us to new and exotic destinations, a consolation somewhat making up for the fact we are still far from...

Nanjing Runs, Walks and Rides to ¥40,000 for Hopeful Hearts @ 20

Much of Nanjing’s international community came together this past weekend in recognition of a worthwhile cause and its 2 decades of fundraising, while those who started it all were also heard from, with their memories of the beginnings of...

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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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