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Bank Makes Moves to Address Escalating Refusals to Accept Cash

With the convenience and prevalence of mobile payments in China, so too many merchants are not keen on seeing hard currency. But given it remains legal tender, vendors are obliged by law to accept it. One bank has been...

Driverless Nanjing Metro Line 7 South Section up & Running!

Nanjing’s metro network has become a little bit longer today, with the opening of the south section of fully-automated Line 7. And The Nanjinger just couldn’t wait to take a ride on that which offers significant convenience to our...

Grave Robbers Dig 5 Metre Deep Hole Targeting Cultural Relic

Huai’an City in our very own Jiangsu Province has recently become the scene for a potentially grisly grave robbing. Did someone dig up the tomb of Han Xin’s mother and attempt to rob it? Local police have opened a...

Meet Luxury! The All New High Speed Trains out of Nanjing

Cabins! They are among the goodies in store for some lucky (wealthy) travellers on high-speed trains based in Nanjing and beginning their service life in the near future. They, and a host of other improvements to make our journeys...

How Old is Nanjing? 2,500 Years? Not any More! Try 3,100 Years!

Nanjing now has a problem, namely every instance that cites the City as having a history of 2,500 years. That’s a lot of tour guides, signage, websites, etc. For 600 years needs to be added to every last one,...

Personal Politics Count for 3,500 Flight Attendant Applicants

Seen sometimes in our communities with their pristine appearance, distinctive uniforms and giveaway carry-on bags, are flight attendants, or to be more politically correct, cabin crew. But less than 10 percent of those who apply for the much-envied positions...

Nanjing Metro Line 5; Tests without Passengers to Finally Begin!

We’re now just one proverbial stop from the very, very long-awaited opening of Nanjing Metro Line 5. It’s a statement, however, which comes with a caveat; Line 5 in so far as only its section that runs through the...

Suzhou Gym Bankrupt; What Happened to the Fitness Industry?

That China’s fitness industry has been in disarray for many years is being thrown in to the spotlight with the high-profile bankruptcy of a well-known gym, one which had hundreds of thousands of memberships, in Suzhou of our very...
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Hi 5! Nanjing’s Newest Metro Line Opens; 8 Years in the Making

They chose to do it on a Sunday. For it has been 8 long years since a spade was...

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...
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