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Thrill Seekers Left Hanging in Air at Nanjing Amusement Park

Visitors taking a ride in a Nanjing amusement park got more thrill than their tickets suggested this past weekend, when their rollercoaster stopped dead on a vertical descent, leaving the ride's occupants suspended in mid air. Turns out it...

Nanjing COVID Situation Roundup; Tuesday 28 June, 2022

Summer travel plans for many have been thrown into chaos today, as an ominous star appeared on Nanjing residents’ travel codes. It’s got people wondering whether they should risk travel, and if they do, will they be able to...

Fined on Metro for Watching Movie (but won’t Put Her Phone Down)

Take to the Nanjing Metro these days and find that it is an increasingly quiet place. That’s because our city is apparently leading the way on cracking down on so-called uncivilised behaviour. And it’s got a lot of people...

Let’s Go Glamping! Treats in Store at Laoshan Tourism Festival

School’s out across Nanjing today and that long summer holiday stretches out in front of us like a long stretchy thing. Appropriate, for "long" and "stretchy" are the words to describe the road which is home to the Nanjing...

Bringing Joy to Jiangbei; Test Runs for Metro Line S8 Extension

Citizens living near to the Nanjing Yangtze River Bridge on the north banks of the River have a reason to be joyful. They are now just one step from having access to the Nanjing Metro on their door step,...

7 Tons of Fruit Comprises University Student Graduation Gift

Graduation time! It’s been that time of year again for university and colleges all over China, and a nice gift for each graduate has become a prerequisite. In seeking to be a little different, quite a few have come...

Getting Naked! Is it too Hot even for Nanjing’s Wutong Trees?

Who doesn’t love Nanjing’s Wutong trees? They keep us cool (relatively) on days such as this and make our city’s boulevards among the most beautiful in China. But some now worry they are getting sick, or they’re simply too...

Humiliation and Shame for Nanjing in Helping out Hangzhou Metro

Nanjing no longer has the fifth longest metro network in China. That honour now goes to Hangzhou, but the irony of it is, we made the trains that enabled the city to steal our title. And providing for our...

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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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