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China’s wishes for a “harmonious society” are often manifest in surprising ways, as one lady in Nanjing recently found out, after a motorbike policeman put her on the back of his bike and sped across town so that her...

Nanjing’s parking spaces, or lack thereof, are back in the headlines, after two women guarding an empty space were forcibly pushed out thereof by another vehicle, igniting a storm of debate on the local internet over the rights and...

With Spring Festival now 2 weeks away, may the celebrations begin! And what better way than by once again hanging giant couplets celebrating the incoming new Chinese year, penned by Nanjing’s citizens, from our great city’s gates. This year’s “Spring...

When Nanjing’s newest metro line commenced operations last month, little did most know that similar openings were occurring at the exact same moment all over China. But how can so many such large undertakings be synchronised across the country? It...

There have been shouts of, Sexism”, on the local Chinese internet of late, after a Nanjing wildlife park launched a promotion that comprised free entry for women, an incident which is highlighting a range of gender-discriminatory practices in China. Jinniu...

Good news for foreigners living in China with limited Chinese abilities; the China Railway ticket APP now recognises a smart phone’s language setting and redirects to the English version accordingly. But, and it’s a big but… The update to the...

Students at Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics have reason to be pretty excited at their future prospects. And that’s because one of their former classmates has been placed near the top of a list of the world’s top...

They are tiny pieces of plastic less than 5 mm in length. Known as microplastics, they are inadvertently consumed by humans, but until now, the health consequences were largely unknown. That recently changed with the findings of a study...