News from around Jiangsu Province in eastern China and its 13 cities therein; Nanjing, Wuxi, Xuzhou, Changzhou, Suzhou, Nantong, Lianyungang, Huai’an, Yancheng, Yangzhou, Zhenjiang, Taizhou and Suqian.
Children’s safety on China’s roads is a worry, with awareness of the dangers far from acceptable. The country’s truck drivers, however, are an increasingly-professional bunch, as one proved in Jiangsu recently, when his quick reactions narrowly averted several deaths.
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Unmanned ariel vehicles, more commonly known as drones, often get a bad press, mainly for buzzing airports and grounding commercial airliners. All too easily forgotten is the key role they can play in saving lives, as per the incident...
Think of them as job centres. The landscape of cities in China is dotted with such “labour service companies”, “HR centres” or “talent shops”. But the service provided by one may well have led directly to an employee’s death,...
When pulled over at a police check point and asked for their documentation, most drivers simply comply politely, while a few will find the need to make up one excuse or another as to why they cannot. But now...
Nanjing no longer has the fifth longest metro network in China. That honour now goes to Hangzhou, but the irony of it is, we made the trains that enabled the city to steal our title. And providing for our...
Today marked a shot in the arm for international media operating in our neck of China’s woods, as efforts to raise our global profile were manifest through the opening of a new media centre to extol to the world...
While we all watch with morbid fascination the daily scenes emerging from locked-down Shanghai, one student in Nanjing thought it was time for a closer look to see the bigger picture. And as it turned out, he was just...
Nanjing’s police had been after him for almost 2 years, for his swindling of local people out of millions, but in the end, it wasn’t fear of the cops which led him to give up the fight; rather it...
