Some people will do anything to avoid paying one trifling fee or another. Take parking for example. One Nanjing man has been handed the maximum penalty possible for covering his car’s license plate with a homemade equivalent to simply...
Visit literally anywhere remotely referring to the Chinese language on the internet today and be told that this day is (yet another) Valentines Day in the Middle Kingdom, on account that the pronunciation of this date sounds like “I...
A Nanjing man and one of his four former spouses are in hot water after it has emerged they were involved in a fake marriage scam the man was operating that helped out of town women to buy real...
Since COVID, we have all despaired as one business after another was shuttered, permanently. But there are bright spots, as illustrated by the enormous injection of foreign investment into Nanjing just announced. It’s the vote of confidence in Nanjing...
Shanghai is back in business. Not quite though, but that’s what authorities might have us believe. And of course it has come with a tremendous economic loss, not least that of an entire season. Marking the day, 50 photos...
There was once a frog that lived in a well. One day, a soft-shelled turtle came by and told him about the sea. “The sea?”, said the frog. “Hah! It's nothing but paradise in here. I assure you, there...
Witnesses flooded the scene, wondering what had just happened in their community. Whatever it was, it was serious. There had obviously been a fire but rumours were quickly spreading among them that a murder had also just been committed...
While we all watch with morbid fascination the daily scenes emerging from locked-down Shanghai, one student in Nanjing thought it was time for a closer look to see the bigger picture. And as it turned out, he was just...
