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Giro d’Italia! Cycling’s Crown Comes from Italy to YRD in May

Tour de France, Vuelta a Espana and Giro d’Italia; the triple crown of cycling. Next month, Italy’s premier biking competition returns to the Yangtze River Delta, meaning that some very serious cyclists in China are getting ready to “Ride...

3 Forest Fires on 1 Day in 1 City Result of Tomb Sweeping Ritual

Given the weather yesterday, it was unlikely to have been an issue on Tomb Sweeping Day itself this year, but the glorious past weekend in fact gave rise to no less than three forest fires in just one city,...

High Speed Trains and “Slow Travel” Explode Across YRD 4 Holiday

With Tomb Sweeping Day falling tomorrow, a Wednesday, and there neither being any working days the weekend either side, many are choosing to make it a 5-day break. It’s a combination setting records across the Yangtze River Delta rail...

World Record! 9 Year Old Local does 3x3x3 Cube in 4.69 Seconds!

A 9-year old boy from Xuzhou in our very own Jiangsu Province has broken the world record for the fastest-average time to solve a 3x3x3 rotating puzzle, also known famously as the Rubik’s Cube, with a staggering time of 4.69...

Teacher Leaps into Fire, Stops Massive Gas Leak, Saves Countless

Tremendous courage has been rewarded in the past few days following the actions of a teacher in Huai’an of Jiangsu Province, seeing him risk third-degree burns and possibly life itself, in order to prevent an entire residential block going...

Wife Murders Husband; Hides Body in Ice Chest for 15 Months

Suzhou in our very own Jiangsu has been the sene of a most gruesome discovery in recent days. That’s where a woman has surrendered to the authorities after her husband’s dead body was found in an ice chest in...

Wuhan Rescue! Old Lady Saved from Yangtze by University Student

Wuhan was the scene of a lucky day for one lady and lad earlier this week, when a student from Nantong in Jiangsu found himself the rescuer of the old woman who had fallen into the treacherous waters of...

New Way to Shanghai! And New High Speed Railway Stations too!

Many of us are fond of a trip to Shanghai. And the de facto way to do that is of course to take a high-speed train. But now, after over a decade, it’s getting a little boring seeing the...
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Costco Nanjing Low Down; Grand Opening on 28 May

That we had heard the rumour was enough; discounted pumps are already flowing at the petrol station of soon-to-be-opened...

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...
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