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¥760 Million Mobile Phone Export Tax Rebate Scam Cracked!

27 February 2018, Zhenjiang police have announced they have cracked China’s largest case of export tax rebate fraud, amounting to ¥760m. An official letter released by the Zhenjiang police, only half an hour's drive from Nanjing,  states that after a...

Spring Festival Fatality Highlights Binge Drinking

The recent death of a 25-year old male in nearby Changzhou city, Jiangsu, highlights the dangers of Spring Festival binge excess. 24 February, as reported by Sina, a man was rushed to hospital after he collapsed. It has been reported...

Adopted Boy from Nanjing Attends Embassy CNY Bash in Washington

A New Year celebration at the Chinese Embassy in Washington Monday evening included the touching attendance of 70 American families who have one thing in common; they have all adopted a child from China, with one from our very...

Authorities Aim to “Eliminate Evil” in Gang Crackdown

To the north of Nanjing, a court in Xuzhou city has convicted 22 people of gang crime and sentenced them to jail and detention, while denouncing them as evil. During the open trial, the court heard this “mafia style”...

Surgeon Death Resurfaces “Overwork” Problems in China

The Chinese word Guòláosǐ (过劳死), loaned from the Japanese word Karōshi (過労死), means death from overwork, and recent history teaches us that China has, for some time now, suffered from such cases. In December of 2017, at the age of...

Jiangsu Tourism Boasts Steady Growth

Nanjing’s annual visitor satisfaction index results are out and results are positive. Maintaining steady growth with an average score of 82.94, Nanjing and four other cities have been the first to achieve what is being called “full-dimensional satisfaction” in...

Man Inherits Taobao Shop; Virtual Notorisation Becoming a Must

A Mr. Wang of Donghai County in Lianyungang, this month became the first person in his city to inherit an online shop. The shop, which had been fully authenticated and was run in his mother’s name, continued to be a...

Live Australian Cattle Arrive for Slaughter North of Nanjing

Among other Western delicacies such as red wine, cigars, cheese and chocolate, beef is fast becoming a staple for China’s middle-upper class. Demand has always been present in China for beef, however, prices have always been just too high. So...

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China’s Brain Banks Need Donors as Human Tissue Reveals Dementia Clues

China’s human brain banks are still struggling to attract donors more than a decade after the first facilities opened,...

Car-Bed Campers Turn Hotel Car Parks into Free Showers and Toilets

Chinese road trippers are swapping hotel rooms for the back seats of their own cars, folding them flat into...

China’s Metro Map Grows by Almost 65km Ahead of National Day

China’s National Day holiday has arrived with three cities adding new metro links. Nanjing, Qingdao and Changchun have opened...

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