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Fired! Airport Chairman & 4 Others Disciplined for COVID Failure

Heads are rolling in Nanjing to hold accountable those responsible for the COVID outbreak that is China’s worst since Wuhan. Among them, the airport’s chairman, general manager, head of epidemic prevention and directors of emergency rescue and ground services. Last...

7-Year-Old Nanjing Girl Thanks NAT Nurses in Viral Video Dance

Cute and surreal at the same. Yet if 2020 hadn’t happened, we would probably find this tale too incredulous to be real, too downright bizarre to be true. A 7-year-old girl, standing before HAZMAT-clad nurses, dancing. Had lunacy gripped Nanjing? Were the nurses there...

ZERO New Cases, but How Do We Keep it that Way? With a Tank!

With COVID now all but dead in Nanjing, we need be sure it does not once again return. And lend a hand to other areas in China now battling their own outbreak. Time for caterpillar tracks to come the...

Nanjing COVID Outbreak Update; Friday 6 August

Closing the week, it’s time to join hands and consolidate with our comrades in Wuhan. For we are the COVID capitals of China. While we now understand a little of your previous pain, we also have much in common...

Nanjing COVID Outbreak Update; Thursday 5 August

"Six o’clock already, I was just in the middle of a dream. … It’s just another manic NAT day." That’s the deal for many in Nanjing today, while elsewhere in the city, it’s parole day for a select few...

Nanjing COVID Outbreak Update; Wednesday 4 August

A lot has transpired in the last 24 hours in Nanjing, especially in the COVID hotspot that is Jiangning District. And it is restaurants, rumour mongers and the elderly which are in our spotlight for today, as the main...

Nanjing COVID Outbreak Update; Tuesday 3 August

What’s it like to live near the airport in Nanjing these days? “Frustrating” and “anxiety inducing” were the words used by one to whom The Nanjinger has talked. But now Lukou people are rallying together, albeit after a bit...

Nanjing COVID Outbreak Update; Monday 2 August

Many not-so-early risers in Jiangning District today got their start to the week by the megaphone blaring up once again. Yep, we are back at it, but a few of us will be spared from queuing up three times...

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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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