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King Cobra Seized by Nanjing Customs, but it Put up a Fight!

Nanjing customs authorities are long used to intercepting pests during their daily labours. Among the animals they come across are the common garden variety, the unusual and all kinds of exotica. Then there is also the extremely deadly, species...

Personal Transporter Battery Sets Nanjing Media College Ablaze

Fires from the batteries of two-wheeled transportation devices are back in the headlines today. But this time, not the pesky e-bikes, but those bewildering personal transporters, after one set ablaze a Nanjing college dormitory. The fire broke out yesterday evening,...

Failed BBQ Joint Owner Calls Police Threatening Suicide

Nanjing’s first responders have once again been called in to deal with a case of bizarre behaviour. Both officers on the ground and the emergency operator were involved in the counselling of a man wishing to take his own...

Decorators Demolish ¥7.5 Million Nanjing Apartment “by Mistake”

How would you feel working hard for countless years so that you may spend millions on a beautiful home, to find it one day destroyed, because someone had simply gone to the wrong door? That’s precisely what happened last...

8 Dead; 8 More Injured after Dump Truck Smashes into Mini Bus

Tragedy unfolded yesterday evening close to Nanjing as a dump track crashed into a mini bus, killing eight people and injuring eight more. It is believed most of the victims to be women working as express courier handlers in...

Up to ¥500,000 Reward for Grassing up Catering Offenders

Nanjing is mobilising its citizens to be alert and assisting in efforts to crack down on violations in the catering and food industries as regards food safety. And by way of incentive for potential informants, rewards of up to...

Nanjing-Built Monorail for “Anhui’s Happiest City” Now Open!

Know the joke, “What’s the happiest city’s in Anhui?” “Wuuu Huuu!”. Those contented citizens now have another reason to be cheerful, with the opening of a driverless monorail line that shall speed those smiling faces around on trains that...

Slaughtered Chicken Stall Set up by Woman on Nanjing Metro

This past weekend got off to an unusual start on the Nanjing Metro network, when a woman boarded the day's first train with a collection of slaughtered chickens to then create a makeshift stall in attempts, to sell the...

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Tasty Solutions on the Menu at Shanghai Climate Week

Shanghai Climate Week coincides with Earth Day and highlights China's dual-carbon commitments. And while its object as also a...

Why is the Shanghai Government Sniffing around Our Back Yard? 

Shanghai-Nanjing Innovation Belt emerges, with Putuo District driving cross-regional collaboration to boost economic growth for 50+ million people Putuo officials...

Nanjing’s International Flights; All Change for Summer Schedule

April is rolling around, and with it comes a new schedule for flights in and out of Nanjing Lukou...

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