Regional News

Trust me; choose a career as a journalist. You get to see a whole lot of stuff that’s off limits to most. Like a shoal of fish that has never had it so good. When I woke up yesterday, little...

Global campaigning network Greenpeace was the driving force for a forum held in Hangzhou yesterday, which, together with local institutions, brought the voice of climate-change policy experts to an audience of media professionals and other interested parties.  From 14 to...

Fungus. All kinds of edible fungus. That’s what’s making people rich in a few select villages in northern Jiangsu where mushrooms have been cultivated for more than 30 years. Zhangzhai is one such village, in Fengcheng Sub District of Fengxian...

Undercover investigations by a leading Chinese media outlet are underscoring the need to be vigilant as to some of the claims made by those said to be practitioners of Traditional Chinese Medicine. Beware of “just going for a massage”. On...

Walking out of Danyang Railway Station that is just 25 minutes by high-speed train out of Nanjing, in Zhenjiang of our very own Jiangsu, the sign reading “China Danyang Glasses City” across the street is particularly eye-catching. At the entrance...

Suzhou’s GDP in the 1st quarter of this year topped half a trillion renminbi, a year-on-year growth of 7.9 percent, top among the 26 cities in China with an annual GDP of over ¥1 trillion. But how exactly has...

Now and again, there comes along a story buckingtthe trend. We too often hear of ordinary folk suffering, unable to pay their hospital bills. It’s hence heartwarming to relate a moving story of courage, care and generosity in Jiangsu. Last...

Forecast for later this week is rain. And a fair amount of it too. That’s a relief, for while a deluge has come to southern China the past few days, some extreme measures have been implemented of late in...