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.
Many of us have been impressed, overwhelmed, impassioned and inspired by speakers at TED (Technology, Education, Design - www.ted.com). Hundreds of inventors, artists, scientists and even (some) politicians have taken to the TED stage over the past few years...
The stage was set when in May 2010 when, unbeknownst to us all, Kim Jong-il visited a Suguo supermarket in Yangzhou, just an hour away from Nanjing, during one of four visits (read "shopping trips" given his taste for...
Executives from earth moving giant Caterpillar and governmental leaders from Wuxi have signed an agreement to expand the company's multi-functional research and development center in Wuxi. The Wuxi R&D center first opened in December 2009 and currently has more...
The tainted pork meat scandal has hit close to home with the arrest of ten people, including four government employees and six butchers, in Nanjing on 15th June. Nanjing city procuratorate revealed that the government staff, including three officials,...
It is not an insignificant source of embarrassment to Nanjing that, as the capital of Jiangsu province, the city's GDP lags behind that of Suzhou and even former regional underdog Wuxi. For decades, Wuxi has been known as a...
The Wuxi City Statistical Bureau has published its latest report on 2010 economic operation in the Yangtze River Delta area. The results make for impressive reading, to say the least. The Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of the Yangtze River...
Last week a kindergarten teacher burnt seven children with a hot, electric iron. The woman, Ms. Yi, has been detained by the police for 10 days, fined 500 yuan ($75) and fired from her job in Xinghua, located half...
