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2 Million Fever Tablets Selling Daily in 153 Chemists in Nanjing

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For readers in Nanjing suspicious they have contracted COVID, our city has from today on initiated a daily supply of 2 million antipyretic tablets. Available at 153 pharmacies city wide, each customer may purchase a maximum of six tablets. Antipyretics...
Feature Stories

Chinese Whispers & Simple Arithmetic; It’s a Numbers Game

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This correspondent’s dear spouse has a favourite expression; (我给你讲过了一百八十遍你知道), meaning, “I’ve told you, like, a hundred times already, you know” (in the Chinese version, the number is actually “180”, presumably because we have to get the number “8” in...
Great Nanjingers

The Golden Rooster Winning Eight Take Wonder; He Qun

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He Qun (何群) was a multi-award winning and respected Fifth Generation film director known for delivering truth in cinema, and for taking eight takes to get it right, earning himself the nickname, He Eight. Born in Nanjing on 7 December,...
Building the Best; Architectural Highlights of Nanjing

The Building of Nanjing (12); Nanjing Yangtze River Bridge

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With nothing else like it in the world, the Nanjing Yangtze River Bridge is arguably our city’s finest structure. And it’s one with quite a tale to tell. Back in 1916, the initial inspiration for a fixed crossing of the...
Local Reviews

Million Dollar Fries & Hot Dog Carts in Nanjing

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Classic, fictional, movie musical, “Grease”, features a theme-park ride called “Shake Shack”, on which are John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John when they sing, “You're the One that I Want”. Today, it’s not a ride, but it is a reality...
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COVID Strikes Terror in Nanjing as Profits and Uncertainty Soar

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Those lovable creatures who bring us our take out whenever we desire have been considerably busier than normal in the past few days, with Nanjing now gripped by fear of COVID. And as people hunker down, the “wai mai”...
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Man Saves Wife in Fire, Dies with Son; Electric Bike to Blame?

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Two people in Nanjing have been left dead in a fire that appears to be the result of an electric bike charging. It’s a tragedy highlighting the genuine dangers posed by the carelessness of those thinking of convenience over...
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R.I.P. Travel Code: 5 March 2020 – 13 December 2022

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Got any screenshots of your travel code on your phone? Keep ‘em. That’s because our green-arrowed, once-perpetual friend is no more, in the latest development that is at present an almost-daily step toward life as normal in the Middle...
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About Me

Editor-in-Chief of The Nanjinger, Frank Hossack, is a multi-award winning Radio/TV host and voice-over artist who has worked in China for the past 32 years. Frank has also written for Time magazine, the Wall Street Journal and The Times, appeared on the BBC and LBC, and been cited by CNN, China Daily and the New York Times, among many others.
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Shanghai Climate Week coincides with Earth Day and highlights China's dual-carbon commitments. And while its object as also a...
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