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Break Dancing Team for Paris 2024 Olympics Revealed in Nanjing

Unbelievably, the Olympics are being held next year. But the short interval with which it feels the global pinnacle of sport is once again coming around has not stopped China, and Nanjing for that matter, from being ready. And...

CPR for 3 Hours by Nurses & Doctors Saves Man from Jaws of Death

They took turns to apply CPR for up to an hour at a time. Their efforts, along with a good dose of modern medical technology and the rich experience of doctors, have avoided brain death in a man after...

Blood Stocks Critical in Nanjing; COVID-free Urged to Donate

Nanjing now has a critical blood shortage, with donations having declined sharply of late. At present, those coming forward to give blood number only dozens every day. Considering our city’s overall needs, this is bad news indeed. 南京目前血液严重短缺,献血量近来急剧下降。目前,每天前来献血的人数只有几十人。考虑到我们城市的整体需求,这确实是个坏消息。 Influenced by multiple...

Vegetable Prices Double thanks to Weather & COVID Treatments

Frequenters of their local wet market in Nanjing may have noticed a trend of late. The once go-to option for quality that’s both fresh and cheap has recently become borderline expensive. Primarily, that’s down to two factors; COVID and...

Miracle Escape after Curious 1 Year Old Swallows Caustic Soda

A 1-year-old old baby boy has had a near-miraculous escape after swallowing one of the most toxic substances available; caustic soda. The baby, who could have been maimed for life, was lucky enough to be seen to just in...

Hundreds Line Streets as Trafficked 4 Year Old Girl Returns Home

Crowds have lined the streets in a village in faraway Guangdong Province to welcome home a 4-year-old girl who was abducted and taken north to be sold to a man from our very own Jiangsu, in an ordeal concluding with...

In Memoriam Bao Bin; Obituary to Designer of Nanjing “Logo”

Former Dean and Painter of the Nanjing Academy of Arts, Bao Bin (保彬), passed away at 09:48 on 2 January, 2023. He was 87. The Baidu Baike (China’s Wikipedia equivalent) entry for Bao has today been made greyscale in...

China says 88 to A380; Last Super Jumbos Depart Middle Kingdom

China’s borders reopening has come a little late for the biggest passenger airliner ever made. Scrap? Or spare parts? What fate awaits the last of the Super Jumbos to be flown by a Chinese airline? Today, it seems now...

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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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