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Preying on Love; 184 Arrests in Live Broadcast Dating Scam

Their days of conning vulnerable young males desperate to find a partner are over. Police in China have recently cracked a huge telecom fraud case involving a live-broadcast platform, leading to the arrest of 184 people on suspicion of...

Health Code Required for all Ride Hailing & Taxis from Next Week

With the number of COVID cases creeping back up in China and large numbers expected to travel for Spring Festival over the next month, so a pre-Chinese New Year epidemic prevention effort starts in Nanjing next week. Taxis and...

Molten Aluminium Pierces Worker’s Chest; Survival is a Miracle!

Miracles don’t happen every day. But one did this past week in our own Jiangsu Province, when a worker miraculously survived being splashed across the chest with molten aluminium at a temperature of no less than 660 degrees Celsius. 奇迹不会每天都发生。但上周我们江苏省就发生了这样的事,一名工人被温度不低于660摄氏度的熔融铝溅到胸部,奇迹般地生还。 The...

Massive Explosion at Petrochemical Rubber Plant in Nanjing

Nanjing Chemical Industry Park was the scene yesterday evening for a massive explosion and subsequent fire at a petrochemical plant that produces rubber products, mostly for vehicular tires. There were no casualties reported after the accident. The explosion occurred at...

Parcels More Important than You? High-Speed Freight Train 来了!

A new high-speed train has been rolled out by China, one specifically designed to serve the “premium logistics market”. While tempting to wonder at why our parcels deserve such royal treatment, the move is a decidedly sensible one to...

New on the Menu; Tibetan Beef & Mutton Fly Direct into Nanjing

Nanjingers are looking forward to spicing up their menus this winter with beef, mutton and more, as a new daily cargo flight commenced this week, bringing the delights of the Tibet-Qinghai Plateau to our dinner tables. Wednesday, 6 January, 2020,...

Fire in Tunnel in Nanjing; Two Cars Destroyed in Collision

Fire in a tunnel is a very frightening prospect. Lengthy tunnels are equipped to handle such a scenario but shorter ones are not, which is why huge gulfs of smoke were yesterday morning seen coming from the tunnel entrance...

Nanjing Taxi Passengers Can Rest Easy when New QR Code Adopted

Taking a taxi in Nanjing can be a hit-and-miss experience. Is the driver a lunatic? Does he or she try to rip you off? Were you ripped off unconsciously? All this could soon be a thing of the past,...

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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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