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​Everything You’ve Ever Wanted to Ask about WeChat… Answered!

The super app. WeChat. There’s an 50-50 chance you’re using WeChat to read this article. And let’s face it, for almost everything else in your life. Hence, we figure our alert readers have wondered from time to time about...

Why Does My Takeout Arrive So Fast? Because it’s Prefabricated

Easy, isn’t it? To imagine chefs in a restaurant just down the street using all their skills to wash, chop and cook everything you’ve just ordered in the shortest possible time. In actual fact, they may have only warmed...

Sinful Crook Targets Epidemic Prevention Staff in Nanjing

There are some things you just don’t do. While most unscrupulous acts can be to some degree justified, those which are morally reprehensible deserve no defence. And stealing from a COVID worker during the execution of their duty unquestionably...

How a 6 Year Old Journeyed 2,160 Kilometres to Tibet by Bike

A man from our neck of the woods in eastern China has made a gruelling bike trek of over 2,000 kilometres, all in the name of a summer school holiday with a difference and an unsurpassable life experience for...

Heatwave Roundup; Tigers, Compensation & Fire Brigade Rescue

This summer’s heat persists, and if current predictions are correct, it’s going to stay this way until the end of next month. Finding ways to keep cool remains the priority for both humans and animal kind, while there is...

Tornado Outbreak Makes Us Ground Zero for Convective Weather

Tornados may be most commonly associated with the USA, but recent events are bringing to light the fact that here in Jiangsu, we live in another of the world’s hotspots for cyclones. A look at the historical record also...

People Smuggling is China’s #1 Epidemic Related Crime

Stats are in for the major cases of COVID wrongdoing so far this year. While previously it was inadequate implementation of prevention and control or a relaxed mentality which led to disciplinary action, the 2022 range of epidemic-related crime...

Bored Boy, 12, Steals Parents’ Car; Drives 120Km/H on Highway 

Somewhat inevitably, children are at some point going to be left to their own devices during the long summer holiday. And coincidentally, that’s exactly the time they come up with the most outlandish ways of keeping themselves entertained, including...

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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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