Nanjing News

Today marks 20 years since the death of Iris Chang, author of “The Rape of Nanking” that brought a knowledge of the Nanjing Massacre to a broad international audience after its publication in 1997. Today is marked here in Nanjing,...

Certainly it can be felt on the streets of Nanjing these days. Our city is once again “en vogue” with foreigners. After a 5-year hiatus, the number of visitors to the Southern Capital has returned, almost, to pre-Pandemic levels. Back...

Check in counters might be the oddest of places to hold an anniversary celebration for 45 years of ties between Jiangsu and the state of Victoria in Australia. But not when the first flight to Melbourne from Nanjing in...

There was a time when our Nanjing Metro system, as well as others in China, was in its infancy and a state of confusion. With the debate over metro-escalator etiquette recently reignited, clarity as to the official position has...

That we had heard the rumour was enough; discounted pumps are already flowing at the petrol station of soon-to-be-opened Costco in Nanjing. There, we were met with more good news; Costco Nanjing is confirmed to open on 28 May...

They chose to do it on a Sunday. For it has been 8 long years since a spade was first stuck in the ground for Line 5. Hence choose a time when the maximum number of people possible would...

There cannot be many books, English books, illustrated by a Nanjinger and a young one at that, which have been published by a renowned international name such as HarperCollins. It's a teeny weeny number which swelled enormously as 2024’s...

Tragedies are not normally inevitable. They come out of nowhere. But when it comes to that of the deadly fire in Nanjing of late, a growing body of evidence is pointing to it being a case of something like...