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Bank Makes Moves to Address Escalating Refusals to Accept Cash

With the convenience and prevalence of mobile payments in China, so too many merchants are not keen on seeing hard currency. But given it remains legal tender, vendors are obliged by law to accept it. One bank has been...

Grave Robbers Dig 5 Metre Deep Hole Targeting Cultural Relic

Huai’an City in our very own Jiangsu Province has recently become the scene for a potentially grisly grave robbing. Did someone dig up the tomb of Han Xin’s mother and attempt to rob it? Local police have opened a...

Personal Politics Count for 3,500 Flight Attendant Applicants

Seen sometimes in our communities with their pristine appearance, distinctive uniforms and giveaway carry-on bags, are flight attendants, or to be more politically correct, cabin crew. But less than 10 percent of those who apply for the much-envied positions...

Suzhou Gym Bankrupt; What Happened to the Fitness Industry?

That China’s fitness industry has been in disarray for many years is being thrown in to the spotlight with the high-profile bankruptcy of a well-known gym, one which had hundreds of thousands of memberships, in Suzhou of our very...

Obsessed with Tai Ji; 88 YO Practices 2 Hours Daily for 30 Years

She’s some 8 years older than her mother in law. She also looks after her entire family, even the grandchildren. She’s pretty sure her unremitting practice of Tai Ji is responsible. And she also happens to be 88 years...

Doc with Acute Appendicitis Completes 3 Lumbar Spine Operations

Continuing to warm people’s hearts with his sincerity, love and skill, is a local doctor whose dedication to treating his patients recently saw him perform no less than five operations while in tremendous pain himself. The following morning, he...

Student Backlash at Uni Plan for Bodycam Checks in Dormitories 

Students enrolled in a university in Jiangsu are up in arms, citing invasions of privacy, at proposals that inspectors wear body cameras that record both audio and video during their evening tours of dormitories. But there are two sides...

Gone Crazy for Sausages as Local Couple Sell a Half Tonne a Day

Something’s up with the meat in Zhenjiang. It’s selling fast. In this economic climate. Equally strange is the fact that local government is getting the thumbs up. What the heck is going on in Zhenjiang? In a word, sausages. On...
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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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