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Nanjingers Want Be Wed in “World’s Most Beautiful Public Toilet”

Media elsewhere picked up on this new Nanjing sensation a few weeks ago. Now though, Chinese-media outlets are going crazy for that being called the world’s most-beautiful public toilet. It’s going folk asking, “Can we have a wedding here?”. That’s...

“Change-a-Money?” Guys Nabbed in ¥200 Million Foreign Exchange Scam

With its controls over foreign currency, the practice of the illegal exchange thereof in China is decades old. But now, it’s all caught up with some individuals whose ¥200-million scam was operating in Shanghai and beyond, including our very...

In University Campus Lockdown Post Coffee is Star Attraction

Earlier this year, China Post announced it was moving into the coffee business. Makes sense, right? Actually, it does. Well now it does anyway, as the experience of students in one Nanjing university, under lockdown on account of COVID,...

Post-90s Boy Donates Stem Cells to Save Complete Stranger

Stem-cell donation is not to be taken lightly. It is therefore noteworthy and highly commendable that a young man in our very own Jiangsu Province successfully donated stem cells for a positive match with a patient he had never...

China’s Unwritten Rules & The Population Time Bomb

News of China’s rapidly-aging population will not have escaped The Nanjinger’s alert readers. That’s right folks, people aren’t making enough babies. The problem of course, is the herd effect. And given China is an aspirational society driven by the concept...

Which Lines on the Nanjing Metro Carry the Most and Least Passengers?

When forced to stand on a packed Nanjing Metro, have you ever wondered as to how many people are having the same experience? Which line on our city’s metro system is the busiest? And which was perhaps not worth...

From B2B to B2C; True Innovation Made in (Nanjing) China

Innovation. That’s a word which in Nanjing is bantered around like baozi. But slapping the label “innovative” on something doesn’t make it so. To find the genuine article, The Nanjinger first asks the question, what does Africa’s number 1 music...

China’s Principal Islamic Figurehead; Muhammad Ali Yu Zhengui

Muhammad Ali Yu Zhengui (余振贵) was a former Member of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress and Former Vice President and Secretary General of the China Islamic Association. Born in Nanjing in February, 1946, of Hui ethnicity, Yu...

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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