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Longing for International Travel? Visit Macau Week in Nanjing

Many yearn for those days of commonplace international travel. But even now there is one destination abroad within our reach, and that’s the quarantine-free former Portuguese enclave of Macau. Find out more at a special promotional activity starting this...

All aboard the Vaccination Bus (for a Free Haircut)!

The race to get jabs in arms continues. Or rather, the race to persuade people to get jabs in arms continues. And to do so, Nanjing is rolling out ever-more creative and innovative schemes. Among them, the vaccination bus...

Weekend Theft; What the Chinese Think of “Borrowed Days”

You would think we would be used to it by now. “Borrowed days” is the concept that’s been in use for quite a number of years; extending national holidays but making up for the lost time by turning a...

Woman Driver Stops in Emergency-Use-Only Lane to Put on Makeup

Nanjing police were lost for words over the recent May Day holiday, when the uptick in travel also brought with it some very strange behaviour on the part of China’s citizens, by some who chose to put the transportation...

Oxygen Aid for India; Nanjing Lends Hand with Emergency Airlift

With the world looking on in horror at events unfolding in India, so efforts at aiding the COVID-stricken country are finally becoming reality. Among them, an aircraft has flown from Nanjing with supplies of life-saving oxygen concentrators on board. It...

3cm Nail Removed from Man’s Eye after 3 Days

A Nanjing labourer has had a tremendously lucky escape, avoiding the loss of an eye after doctors were successful in removing a nail from a nail gun which was only found behind his eye after it had been stuck...

11 Dead, Hundreds Injured & Thousands Evacuated in Holiday Winds

A storm that battered swathes of Jiangsu province in Eastern China with some of the highest winds ever recorded has left a city with 11 dead and over 100 injured, just as the nation was settling down to enjoy...

License to Thrill; Behold Bond at British Ball in Nanjing…

...or more precisely, behold many Bonds, because the real stars shall in actual fact be YOU! For 007 is the theme at the first ever British Ball to be held in Nanjing. And the razzmatazz is all for a...
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Where was Capital of Jiangsu in History? Nanjing just 1 of 9!

Nanjing, the capital of numerous ancient dynasties and even the nation itself previously, is also capital of Jiangsu Province....

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...
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