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Personal Transporter Battery Sets Nanjing Media College Ablaze

Fires from the batteries of two-wheeled transportation devices are back in the headlines today. But this time, not the pesky e-bikes, but those bewildering personal transporters, after one set ablaze a Nanjing college dormitory. The fire broke out yesterday evening,...

Failed BBQ Joint Owner Calls Police Threatening Suicide

Nanjing’s first responders have once again been called in to deal with a case of bizarre behaviour. Both officers on the ground and the emergency operator were involved in the counselling of a man wishing to take his own...

Decorators Demolish ¥7.5 Million Nanjing Apartment “by Mistake”

How would you feel working hard for countless years so that you may spend millions on a beautiful home, to find it one day destroyed, because someone had simply gone to the wrong door? That’s precisely what happened last...

8 Dead; 8 More Injured after Dump Truck Smashes into Mini Bus

Tragedy unfolded yesterday evening close to Nanjing as a dump track crashed into a mini bus, killing eight people and injuring eight more. It is believed most of the victims to be women working as express courier handlers in...

Up to ¥500,000 Reward for Grassing up Catering Offenders

Nanjing is mobilising its citizens to be alert and assisting in efforts to crack down on violations in the catering and food industries as regards food safety. And by way of incentive for potential informants, rewards of up to...

Slaughtered Chicken Stall Set up by Woman on Nanjing Metro

This past weekend got off to an unusual start on the Nanjing Metro network, when a woman boarded the day's first train with a collection of slaughtered chickens to then create a makeshift stall in attempts, to sell the...

15cm all it Takes to Stop Take-Out Delivery E-Bike Riders

Completely pedestrianising a whole street may not seem like much of a challenge, but it is one that has left authorities in Nanjing scratching their heads in frustration for some time. That was until now. And the solution was...

Hungry Woman in Nanjing Caught Seven Times “Eatlifting”

Shoplifting or "eatlifting"? It probably happens a lot more than we know. But now one Nanjing woman has been caught in the act. Namely, having a meal in a self-service convenience store and leaving without paying. Seven times. Yesterday, 8...
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Hi 5! Nanjing’s Newest Metro Line Opens; 8 Years in the Making

They chose to do it on a Sunday. For it has been 8 long years since a spade was...

1st Blind Teacher in Wuxi is Shanghai Fudan University Graduate

Jiangsu is on the cusp of having its very first blind teacher, thanks to the dedication of a student...

Nanjinger’s Illustrated Book Picked up by Top 5 Intl. Publisher

There cannot be many books, English books, illustrated by a Nanjinger and a young one at that, which have...
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