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Former Son-in-Law to Pay ¥160,000 in Child Support Back Payments

Nanjing’s lawyers have been busy of late tackling an unusual child support case. All said and done, a Nanjing grandmother is delighting in having successfully sued her former son-in-law for payment of child support he had promised but had...

Nabbed! Taxi Driver Caught Targetting “Easy to Cheat” Foreigners

Foreigners and out of towners have recently been found to be the targets of a particular Nanjing taxi driver, one who had also installed a device in his car to inflate the distances travelled, and thus the fares to be...

Moulded Ice Cream is New Big Thing but first Gimme Some Sunshine

With the cold and rain set to continue for quite some time across much of China, it may not have been the best of conditions for an annual ice cream expo. That was until the star of the show...

Night Economy Now Accounts for 60% of Chinese Consumption

The power of youth is being crediting as adding the fire to the Chinese economy that has propelled the country’s night economy to now be where the majority of consumption takes place. And they are no longer spending it...

Citizen’s Arrest for Security Guard Photographing Women’s Legs

A public-spirited woman in Nanjing has brought to light some of the nefarious acts taking place on a daily basis of which we may be unaware, by calling out a security guard for his taking of multiple photos of...

Taking Shape in Nanjing; World’s Largest Underground Space?

The superlatives just keep on coming. We’re just a few years from Nanjing having a new tallest building, and it’s going to sit on the largest underground space in China. And by extension, there is a good chance that...

Delivery Boxes are Latest Attempt to Locate Missing Children

Had any bulky deliveries recently? If so, and had you purchased from one particular online retailer, then you may well have noticed the latest innovation in attempts to locate missing children in China; printing their essential information on the...

Official! This National Day Holiday was Hottest in History!

Yes, it was a record breaker. The week-long break that was this year’s National Day was the hottest ever. As much of China experienced a heat wave, in our own Nanjing and Jiangsu Province, temperatures rose to their highest...

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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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