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Nanjinger Helps Revive Youthful Future for Calligraphy

Today is World Calligraphy Day, as it has been on the second Wednesday of August since 2017. The Day brings experts and beginners together to discuss, practice, and learn about the ancient craft. But the cloud on the horizon...

First Time Ever; Fire Outbreak on Nanjing Yangtze River Bridge

For the first time in its nigh-on, 74-year history, a serious, structural accident has taken place on the iconic Nanjing Yangtze River Bridge. A fire, and the subsequent delay of train services which depend on the Bridge for their...

Lufthansa is Back! Flights to/from Nanjing Resuming September!

It’s another little sign that the end is somewhere in sight; the imminent resumption of one of the principal air links for Nanjing with the western world. After more than a year, Lufthansa will next month be once again...

“I Want Get Off and Push”; Nanjing’s Buses Now Slower than Bikes

Nanjing’s commuters are up in arms in recent days over new regulations which strictly limit the speeds at which buses may pass through our city’s busy intersections. It’s got people asking should the safety of law breakers compromise journey...

Feels Like 47°! Jiangsu’s August may be “Month of Humidity”

Wishing for winter? With the heatwave set to continue, many in east China are dreaming of December. But don’t forget the role that humidity has to play; that oppressive damp has the power to make us feel both hotter...

Bar Bans Bald, Girls over 65 Kilograms & Anyone in Slippers

Night owls in an east China city are up in arms after a local bar’s attempt at a publicity stunt went not quite according to plan. Flaunting every rule in the Bible of Politically Correctness, the bar restricted entry...

Yao Ming: “Keep Your Children in Basketball, not Volleyball”

They’re being called the high-altitude bridesmaids, the somewhat inevitable result of marriage between a volleyball and basketball player. Household names both, joined by their contemporaries, it was a society wedding with a sporting theme and some very tall people. Pride...

Volcano Killed Dinosaurs, not Asteroid, Say Nanjing Scientists

Scientists in Nanjing have unearthed fresh evidence in support of the theory suggesting the world’s largest Extinction Level Event (ELE; the one that killed all the dinosaurs) was not in fact the result of a massive meteor impact. 南京的科学家们发现了支持这一理论的新证据,表明世界上最大的灭绝级事件(ELE;杀死所有恐龙的事件)实际上并不是大规模流星撞击的结果。 Latest...

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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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