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Firefighters Rescue Her but Teenage Girl Suicide is Big Concern

Teenage girls are increasingly feeling the anxieties of growing up in modern Chinese society today, as illustrated by another adolescent attempt at suicide in the past few days, this time one which occurred in our very own Jiangsu Province. The...

Over 28,000 Evacuated as Gale Force 17 Winds Head our Way

Eastern parts of Jiangsu Province are bracing themselves for the destructive power of Typhoon Meihua. With the next few days critical, every possible precaution is being taking to prevent loss of life, including the evacuation of thousands to safer...

Warning: Nanjing to Conduct Drills of Air Raid Siren System

Normally, it’s a sound we hear just once a year, on 13 December that is the anniversary of the start of the Nanjing Massacre. Not 2022, as this weekend will witness the cry of the city’s air-raid sirens as...

Rescues from Rivers! Villagers Save Lives in Typhoon Conditions 

Fallout from Typhoon Hinnamnor has made heroes out of many villagers in our very own Jiangsu Province, they together with authorities having affected life-saving rescues of four people who had found themselves in deep water, literally. It was just in...

Grade 1 Students Spend 1st Day Firing “Authentic” Guns

The guns appeared real enough. And then we found out that’s because they were. Brought along to a local school on its first day back, the intention was national defence education for children as they began their 9 years...

IKEA Joining those Saying “Photos in our Shop Prohibited!”

Have you ever been put out of your way because someone else is busy taking photos with no regard for those around them just trying to go about their daily business? Now, many shops, once happy for the free...

Vloggers at War Foul of the Law in “Strange Food Broadcasting”

Supposedly helping people to see the specialties of different regions and spread food culture, vloggers will do anything to get more viewers. And that includes eating things which are either dangerous or which it is illegal to do so,...

New Photographic Horrors of Nanjing Massacre Emerge in USA

Very, very few photographs exist of the Nanjing Massacre, which makes a new find documenting the atrocities of 1937 all the more remarkable. But it’s today’s social media and an unusual content creator which have propelled our city’s history...

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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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