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Nucleic Acid Testing for Everyone Returning from Wuhan to Nanjing

Continued epidemic prevention efforts in Nanjing now include mandatory Nucleic Acid Testing (NAT) of all returnees to Nanjing from Hubei Province. The moves comes as China has created accelerated NAT for COVID-19 that can confirm cases in 45 minutes. On...

A Shop’s Worst Nightmare; Post-Epidemic Retail Down 50 Percent

If the measure of a city’s economic activity be the sales of women’s shoes, then Nanjing is now performing at 50 percent of its previous retail level, showing that despite numerous incentives lavished upon the populace, much fewer numbers...

Old Man in Wuhan Snapped Viewing Last Sunset Cured of Covid-19

After more than 2 months in a Wuhan hospital bed, an 87-year-old man who had become a star on the internet for for his moving gaze at a sunset, was today pronounced cured and discharged from hospital. It all began...

Opulent Chinese Charter Dreamliner to Bring Kids Back from UK

With Covid-19 now putting the world’s largest and most fragile communities in harm’s way, rich Chinese have been pulling out their wallets to bring children studying abroad home. In one case, the world’s only private Boeing 787 Dreamliner was...

Lifting the Lockdown; the Week Hubei Began Return to Normality

While’s it’s been a week of relatively good news for China as regards Covid-19, in Hubei Province they might as well be celebrating. This morning, 20 March, saw the border town of Honghu join others in the province in...

East’s Puzzlement at West’s Toilet Paper Panic Buying Explained

With the coronavirus now savaging Europe, many in China and elsewhere in Asia have been perplexed at the seemingly random, but panic-driven purchasing of toilet paper. Masks, gloves, superior-formula hand santiser, they can all understand. But the humble bog...

Korean Air on Brink of Collapse; Most Airlines Bankrupt by May

Staff at Korean Air have received a memo from their President warning that their country’s flag bearer may well not survive the financial effects of the Covid-19 outbreak. The communication comes as news emerges of a possible complete collapse...

Nanjing Pays Respects on 95th Anniversary of Sun Yat-sen’s Death

China yesterday paid her respects in the 95th anniversary of the death of Dr. Sun Yat-sen, the renowned statesman who led a revolution that ended imperial rule. With Dr. Sun founding the Republic of China in Nanjing, the city...
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1st Blind Teacher in Wuxi is Shanghai Fudan University Graduate

Jiangsu is on the cusp of having its very first blind teacher, thanks to the dedication of a student...

Nanjinger’s Illustrated Book Picked up by Top 5 Intl. Publisher

There cannot be many books, English books, illustrated by a Nanjinger and a young one at that, which have...

After the Fire; Nanjing & Elsewhere Clamp Down on E-bike Charging that Can Kill

Tragedies are not normally inevitable. They come out of nowhere. But when it comes to that of the deadly...
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