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Easy, isn’t it? To imagine chefs in a restaurant just down the street using all their skills to wash, chop and cook everything you’ve just ordered in the shortest possible time. In actual fact, they may have only warmed...

Water parks are a big draw wherever you go, during the summer of 2022 in particular. But this year in China is seeing the industry rocked by a series of scandals associated with parks’ water quality. It’s got many...

Not since 1961 has Jiangsu seen temperatures in mid July this high. In Nanjing, with humidity levels also soaring, the threat of heat stroke is very real indeed. For “multiple organ failure” is a cause of death increasingly common...

Just 2 days short of the second anniversary of her murder, the killers of a Nanjing college student have been handed the death penalty as the “trial of the century” came to a close in faraway Yunnan, scene for...

Graduation time! It’s been that time of year again for university and colleges all over China, and a nice gift for each graduate has become a prerequisite. In seeking to be a little different, quite a few have come...

Getting on for 2 and a half years into the Pandemic, airlines flying to China are finally seeing the light at the end of the tunnel. But would-be fliers should take heed of the experience of one passenger who...

Visit literally anywhere remotely referring to the Chinese language on the internet today and be told that this day is (yet another) Valentines Day in the Middle Kingdom, on account that the pronunciation of this date sounds like “I...

Shanghai is back in business. Not quite though, but that’s what authorities might have us believe. And of course it has come with a tremendous economic loss, not least that of an entire season. Marking the day, 50 photos...