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Safe Drinking Water? Developing Tea is the Best Kind of Tea

Among the anecdotal indicators of a country’s being developing or developed is the availability of drinkable tap water.  A developing nation which has laid down the world’s most extensive railway network can add safe water pipes to that in record...

Ordering Food in China 4 Non Chinese Speakers

Saying that food delivery in China has boomed is a colossal understatement. Over the last decade the size of its market has grown nearly 40 fold. While COVID was responsible for a lot of that, we haven’t transitioned away...

New York vs. Nanjing; So Who’s More Convenient Now?

With the rapid advancement of technology in the past few decades, more specifically the advancements made in AI machine learning, a fear has crept into people’s minds. Will AI one day replace us? Will the jobs of humans be...

Lazy Girl or Bird of Prey? Lives of Convenience

“The convenience of the high trees” Convenience is a hot topic in China. There is much talk of the convenience of life here, all of us app-tapping our way to easy food, shopping and travel. Convenience had a super-boost with the...

A Chisel of Convenience; In Praise of Procrastination!

For those of us blessed with the need for convenience, at its most potent and circumspect, the ability to take no corner that may be cut, to streamline a process on par with the boarding and take-off of an...

Convenient Noodles; How Do You Define Love?

Nora hated hearing Matt’s friends refer to that girl as a “snack”, as if a woman was a tasty meal to be consumed.  But if the girl she watched him take to the hotel was a snack, then she herself...

Money Talks (i); ¥$ Challenges for Mobile Foreigners

When foreign professionals start to work internationally, their contract can often become either a long-term rolling renewal or an option to move across multiple locations every few years over a sustained period of time.  One thing is for sure; once...

The Building of Nanjing (18); Nanjing International Youth Cultural Centre

They didn’t have much time. In April 2011, Nanjing invited bids from global design companies to build a landmark building for the Youth Olympic Games that were then just 3 and a bit years away. Whoever got the job...

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Tasty Solutions on the Menu at Shanghai Climate Week

Shanghai Climate Week coincides with Earth Day and highlights China's dual-carbon commitments. And while its object as also a...

Why is the Shanghai Government Sniffing around Our Back Yard? 

Shanghai-Nanjing Innovation Belt emerges, with Putuo District driving cross-regional collaboration to boost economic growth for 50+ million people Putuo officials...

Nanjing’s International Flights; All Change for Summer Schedule

April is rolling around, and with it comes a new schedule for flights in and out of Nanjing Lukou...

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