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.
On 13 April 2018, the Second People’s Hospital in Changzhou, to the east of Nanjing, admitted a 33-year-old man with a knife slash to the throat, a 29-year-old woman with a slashed face and a battered 25-year-old.
Officers at Xilin...
500 outbreaks of cancer in the nearby city of Yangzhou have left local people wondering whether their beloved “Yangzhou Chao Fan” is all its, er, fried up to be.
An urban gastroenteroscope examination of the 500 people revealed multiple alarming...
July 2017 a 46-year-old woman was murdered by her 55-year-old husband at their home in Xiping Village, Yangzhou. Today’s sentencing of the case highlights China’s struggle with accepting and getting help for people with mental illnesses.
The couple were thought...
Preparing food, cleaning house and looking after children have been the norm for Chinese women dating all the way back to Imperial China. The name given to women in this role are full-time wives. The differences between current day...
Jiangsu is going flat out before the clock strikes 12 on China’s nationwide 3.15 Consumer Rights Day to clear out all “fakes”.
This all encompassing word for anything “non-officially” produced has seen fake designer labels, cars, DVDs, and even tickets...
Police in Northern Jiangsu’s Lianyungang city have used DNA to find the culprit in a long standing murder and rape case right under their very nose, or bars, as it turns out. To be exact, the perpetrator of the...
What’s blue and white and goes 299 kilometres per hour at Nanjing Lukou International Airport? China Southern Airlines, right?
Wrong.
The correct answer is in fact a motorcyclist racing along at two and half times the speed limit. As reported by...
The Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of Wuxi for 2017 hit ¥1.05 trillion in 2017, bolstering the Jiangsu city as it joins the ranks of the “Trillions Club” of China. Wuxi’s initiation into the Club was not a lonesome one;...
