Foreigners in the News

Tonight, as the clock strikes 12, the stream of foreigners arriving in China shall turn into a trickle of the privileged few. Those already in the country are facing a flood of both hostility and kindness, making 2020 into...

The Chinese New Year was just around the corner. On the other side of the world, an international education award ceremony was about to hand Nanjing International School (NIS) the only award given to a school in China. On 20...

Parents of students at the British School of Nanjing (BSN) have been seeing how curriculum specialists from Juilliard will help integrate the school’s teaching in music, dance and drama. The move comes as schools worldwide tackle the teaching of...

Foreigners are leaving China. The once-magical Middle Kingdom has lost some of its sheen for rising numbers of expats, prompting a return home, or another destination. Among their many reasons for leaving China is expat depression. Back in 2018, the...

Yesterday, 12 November, saw an inspiring ceremony take place at Nanjing International School (NIS), as the launch celebration for the school’s rolling out of the Global Citizen Diploma (GCD), only the sixth school in the world to offer the...

Over 150 volunteers, mostly foreign, were present yesterday, Saturday, 28 September, for the annual assembly of the From Compassion to Action (FCTA) international volunteer organisation in Nanjing. Held in the offices of Jiangning Development Zone on Shengtai Lu, the assembly...

The UK’s 2019 school examination results have recently been released, causing much reason for celebration at The British School of Nanjing (BSN). All students who sat IGCSE Mandarin Chinese received an A*, while there were a number of other...

The final touches are being put to a new park in southern Nanjing in which a key feature shall be sculptures from many of Nanjing’s sister cities, among them, Nanjing’s “youngest” sister; the English city of York. The International Friendship...