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Massive Graduation Ceremony Held for 263,000 Students in Nanjing

Nanjing prides herself on being the educational hub of China. Indeed, there are more students per head of population in Nanjing than in any other major city. And so when graduation time comes, the city better have a grand...

Paraglider Fatality; Man Drowns in Nanjing after Crash in River

A sporting tragedy occurred in Nanjing at the weekend, when a man paragliding ended up in a local river. But despite the best efforts of a good Samaritan who was unable to save the man, paragliding remains one of...

Longing for International Travel? Visit Macau Week in Nanjing

Many yearn for those days of commonplace international travel. But even now there is one destination abroad within our reach, and that’s the quarantine-free former Portuguese enclave of Macau. Find out more at a special promotional activity starting this...

All aboard the Vaccination Bus (for a Free Haircut)!

The race to get jabs in arms continues. Or rather, the race to persuade people to get jabs in arms continues. And to do so, Nanjing is rolling out ever-more creative and innovative schemes. Among them, the vaccination bus...

Weekend Theft; What the Chinese Think of “Borrowed Days”

You would think we would be used to it by now. “Borrowed days” is the concept that’s been in use for quite a number of years; extending national holidays but making up for the lost time by turning a...

Woman Driver Stops in Emergency-Use-Only Lane to Put on Makeup

Nanjing police were lost for words over the recent May Day holiday, when the uptick in travel also brought with it some very strange behaviour on the part of China’s citizens, by some who chose to put the transportation...

Oxygen Aid for India; Nanjing Lends Hand with Emergency Airlift

With the world looking on in horror at events unfolding in India, so efforts at aiding the COVID-stricken country are finally becoming reality. Among them, an aircraft has flown from Nanjing with supplies of life-saving oxygen concentrators on board. It...

3cm Nail Removed from Man’s Eye after 3 Days

A Nanjing labourer has had a tremendously lucky escape, avoiding the loss of an eye after doctors were successful in removing a nail from a nail gun which was only found behind his eye after it had been stuck...

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Shanghai’s Railway Map Shifts East; Cross City to Hongqiao soon but a Memory

For years, Shanghai’s high-speed rail map has pulled passengers towards Hongqiao. That balance is beginning to change. New stations...

Shiseido Sues Aldi over a ¥24.9 Primer that Resembles Its ¥540 Rival

Shiseido has sued Aldi China, the product's manufacturer and an Aldi Shanghai store operator over unfair competition, arguing that...

Forty Tables Became Twenty; Then the Bookings Stopped

Susu has sold wedding banquets at one of the biggest hotels in her small town in northern China for...

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