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Turning Sand into Art; No Beach Required

With the precious fleeting Spring weather coming to an end, the notorious heat of Nanjing is not so far away. Nothing says summer like sun, surf and of course, sand. Hold that thought of planning a...

When Team Building Ends up Meaning Kissing Rubbish Bins

While some may complain about being fed up with clichéd team-building activities; starting the day with a scavenger hunt, spending the afternoon in a boring keynote speaker session and heading home with cheap coffee mugs emblazoned with a company...

iGYM Opens its Doors as Sun Palace is Reborn

Situated at the base of purple mountain and a landmark at the east side of Xuanwu Lake with its distinctive dome structure, Sun Palace (太阳公园) was the largest indoor water park in Nanjing when it opened 2003.  ...

Street Cleaners Receive Philanthropic Noodles

Hand-pulled noodles, tasty broth with fresh ingredients, fast service offered by Muslim waitresses. You must have been to one of those Lanzhou beef Noodles Restaurants (兰州牛肉拉面) around the corner. But having a bowl of noodles for...

NJQR; Scanning Nanjing’s Street Signs

“Wandering around in Nanjing is like shopping in a boutique”, Zhu Ziqing, a famous Chinese essayist from the Republican era, once said. Indeed, 2,500 years of history over ten dynasties has made Nanjing a city like no other. ...

Draconian Driving; New Test Laws Permit Private Instructors

Neither massive traffic jams nor drivers with road rage is able to stop Chinese people from getting behind the wheel. Last year Nanjing granted 262,000 driving licenses, bringing the total number of licensed drivers in the city to 2...

From Coma to Gym; “It’s My Life”!

“If you don’t go to the gym in March, you will cry in April” is a modern Chinese expression adapted from a famous compilation of Han dynasty poetry. So it has come to be that Nanjing’s fitness centres are...

AlphaGo Lacks “Character”; Google Unlikely to Take Mochou Lake

On Tuesday this week, Google’s Artificial Intelligence program AlphaGo completed a feat many thought would be safe for decades into the future; it beat human Go champion Lee Sedol in the complex, centuries-old game of strategy and won a...

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