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R.I.P. Zhuang Zhuang; Farewell to Jiangsu’s First Guide Dog

Guide dogs in China have a working life of 10 years. They are also extremely rare, with only a few hundred in the entire country. That’s what makes the passing of the very first one to work in Jiangsu...

Hangzhou Joins Our Club! Where Else is a Megacity or Supercity?

What is a mega city? Which cities qualify in China? How do very large populations influence their own growth? And what factors are at play in driving population increase in order to propel cities in becoming the biggest of...

Italian Design Icons is Back! Make it a Date in Shanghai!

Now a regular fixture on the Shanghai exhibition circuit, Italian Design Icons has its roots in Nanjing’s foreign community, when a boutique expat law firm set its sights on Shanghai, from both a legal and design perspective. 如今,意大利设计偶像已成为上海巡回展览的常客,它的根源在于南京的外国人社区,当时一家精品外籍律师事务所从法律和设计的角度将目光投向了上海。 Gearing up to...

Can Your Employer be Told if You Don’t Wear an E-Bike Helmet?

Government employees in Yangzhou of our very own Jiangsu Province are having their lives made even more miserable as a crackdown on illegal e-bike-usage habits spreads its tentacles even beyond the domain of civil servants. But is it an...

What’s the Inside of Nanjing North Station Like? Green & Clean!

Improving passenger experience and addressing current flaws in station design are the key takeaways from plans for Nanjing North Railway Station just released. But delays are pressuring the delivery of that set to be the largest railway station north...

Ban on Food Beauty Lamps; Look up when Buying Vegetables!

Set to soon enter effect are new measures aiming to curb the use of so called “fresh food lamps”, also known as “beauty lamps” at vegetable markets nationwide, while the public are also being called upon to do their...

Then & Now; China’s Tallest Building, the Jinling after 40 Years

Guests checking into the Jinling Hotel in Nanjing these days will notice the 40th anniversary badge imprinted on the card that holds their room key. Some may not, however, be aware that in 1983, this was the tallest building...

AI Brings Tears to Soldier’s Eyes but Where’s North Korean Girl?

With us to stay, without doubt, is artificial intelligence. But amid all the doom mongering, AI is also illustrating its uses from decidedly human perspectives, as shown in Huai’an of late in the preparation of a unique 100th birthday...

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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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