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Nanjing prides herself on being the educational hub of China. Indeed, there are more students per head of population in Nanjing than in any other major city. And so when graduation time comes, the city better have a grand...

A sporting tragedy occurred in Nanjing at the weekend, when a man paragliding ended up in a local river. But despite the best efforts of a good Samaritan who was unable to save the man, paragliding remains one of...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...