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Surely little will delight a woman more today than the promise of never-ending golden flowers. For incoming to the “Essentials” section on the Nanjing calendar once again is the horticultural festival that commands us to prepare ourselves for more...

Flight attendants normally spend their time looking after their domain that is the aircraft around them, as well as all on board. But as a flight out of Nanjing at the weekend proves, they can also help to prevent...

Going by the inescapable and somewhat scary announcement "kindly" informing passengers on high-speed trains in China that smoking is strictly prohibited, the answer is surely “something serious”. And so it is, as two young men on a train to...

Signs are that there are several reasons to be optimistic China may consider to reopen its borders in the not so-distant future, with recent events indicating an underlying acceptance that COVID, even in China, will be something we just...

A recently-released study is telling the world that the relatively frequent accidents in China’s university laboratories are, for the most part, the result of human error. But for some in a Nanjing University, it’s all a little too late. On...

Gas cylinders, especially those in China, have a habit of exploding. And when they are transported illegally with little regard for safety, the potential for danger is ever greater. Just as well a shonky operation selling cylinders out the...

Nanjing’s finest have taken down a fugitive in dramatic fashion on a beach in the island paradise of Sanya. The man, who had remained at large for 18 years, was the third and final suspect in a 2003 murder...

Cross any of Nanjing’s mighty bridges over the Yangtze River and peer below. On many a day, you’ll see a kind of haze hovering above the flowing water. That’s generated by emissions from the diesel engines which power the...