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Dog Owners! No Leash = Full Responsibility = Expensive

Vehicles which run over pets, or the drivers thereof, may not actually be responsible in the eyes of the law, it turns out. That’s the result of a case study involving a lady exercising her dog which unfolded in...

Fake Fireworks Destroyed with the Help of a Little Petrol!

Citizens of a Jiangsu city were recently treated to an entirely-unexpected and completely-free-of-charge fireworks show. And that was the result of thousands of illegal fireworks being soaked in petrol and a match being lit. 江苏某城市的市民最近欣赏了一场完全出乎意料且完全免费的烟花表演。这是数千枚非法烟花被浸泡在汽油中并点燃火柴的结果。 Petrol, known to our American friends...

Student Murder; Death Penalty Upheld, Father Denies Profiteering

Those in favour of the death penalty in China will be feeling satisfied these days that an appeal in one of the county’s most-followed murder cases has been rejected, while there are also others claiming the victim’s father has...

Two Ladies, Three Balconies, Death Averted in Nick of Time

Some ladies in Jiangsu have been getting into a bit of a fix with their balconies of late, in two separate incidents, in two cities, but with a degree of uncanny similarity. Were they just careless in hanging out...

Quarter Million Raised as Nanjing Rocks Downton Abbey Style!

There’s only one story in Nanjing’s international community these days. And that would the second British Ball, for which hundreds turned out at the weekend in their 1920s glad rags to look the part, eat, drink and dance the...

Are Restrictions Really Lifted? Rush for Train Tickets Begins

Time to grab your train tickets for National Day. But to go or not to go is the question. Officially, yeah, do what you want. Unofficially, hmmm. Yet, there seem to be plenty train tickets available for those...

Three New Metro Lines to Open in Nanjing by End of this Year!

Nanjing’s metro system has been conspicuous in recent years for, well, not very much. As other cities all over China have opened new metro lines one after the other, Nanjing has stagnated. Thoroughly leapfrogged. Thankfully and finally, that’s about...

Man Burnt to Death Raises Questions over Electric Porsche Safety

Suzhou City in our very own Jiangsu Province has recently witnessed the death of a man trapped inside his burning electric Porsche, bringing to light a recent history of fires breaking out in the German car maker’s four-wheel offerings...

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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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