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On Thursday, 21 June, a 19-year-old girl sat on the edge of the roof of an eight-floor mall in Qingyang, Gansu Province, and listened peacefully to the jeering of onlookers for her to go ahead and commit suicide. The...

Smoking scenes in Chinese movies and television series are seeing a major decline. While the country itself is still the world’s largest tobacco consumer, the film and television industry is slowly making steps towards a more smoke-free viewing experience. 20...

Nanjing will be playing host to the first ever Volleyball Women's Nations League Finals starting Wednesday, 27 June, as inaugural championship for the Volleyball Nations League. Teams from Brazil and the United States are highly favoured to win, as the...

For China expats, time, money and location are important determining factors that often make it difficult to step out and enjoy their adopted city. In Nanjing, it is also little wonder that many might think the city is becoming...

Perhaps spurred on by the central government’s 3-year environmental plan, residents living nearby a factory in Xinyi town, Xuzhou city in the north of Jiangsu province, have alerted local authorities to a strong odour, which they suspected was the...

Over the last 18 months, a series of grand-sounding announcements have been made regarding the establishment of high-tech manufacturing plants in Nanjing, collectively worth almost US$36 billion. As of now, the proposals are beginning to look more and more...

Nanjing is one of the lucky recipient cities of a recent decision by the Shanghai Railway Group to open up 17 new designated Travel Trains, that will run between the summer months of July and August in 2018. Essentially charter...

The past 3 days have seen the National Taiji Championship take place in Nanjing’s Gaochun District. A total of 314 Taijiquan (a.k.a. Tai Chi) masters from nine provinces and cities, including Shanghai, Zhejiang and Guangdong participated in the show, reports...