Regional News

Judging by the number of frenzied shutter-happy onlookers, the celebrity must surely have been gracefully exiting a stretched limousine. But she wasn’t. She was getting out of a bread van. But on her face was still the same smile...

Consumers have turned out to be the real winners in recent days, as a war between milk tea brands in Suzhou’s top mall brought chaos, pandemonium and more than a few bargains to the throngs drawn in by the...

Travellers in east China are today being forewarned of one of our airports taking the near-unprecedented step of closing in its entirety for a 3-week period. That means all flights are cancelled; affected travellers are being urged to contact...

Six cities in China are vying to be next to join the so-called “Trillion Renminbi Club”, by having a 10-figure annual GDP, based on recent data accumulated by looking at the economic performance of cities during the first half...

From 2018 to 2021, a Suzhou man toured China by bicycle, taking in the nation’s 56 ethnic groups and getting his map stamped at 334 post offices. Now, a 30-second video clip of the stamping has gone viral, reigniting...

Children are not the only ones missing out at a well-known school in Suzhou; many of their parents have also found themselves out of pocket, to the tune of five figures in many cases. Meanwhile, teachers at the school...

Have you ever been put off taking a shared e-bike in this hot, sweaty weather, thinking about all the hot, sweaty behinds to have been sat on that saddle right before you? Well, now there’s an answer. And what...

Something is up this summer in Wuxi. The heat of 2023, coupled with a local spirit of entrepreneurship and, it has to be said, some smart government thinking, has generated a perfect storm in which foreign enterprises are literally...