Like many Americans, I came to Beijing with the mistaken notion that noodles are a simple food.
The sudden snow last week that blocked roads, snarled traffic and shut schools in Beijing caught residents off-guard. The weather station said both the precipitation and the low temperatures broke records from the past four decades. However, I was stunned to learn one near-tragic aspect in the aftermath - a street sweeper fell into coma after working almost non-stop for four days.
Experts and netizens remain skeptical of the motivation behind actions of imprisoned former leaders
Before Wu Xinmin, a 28-year-old Beijing chengguan officer goes to sleep at night, he reads a fiction story that he downloaded from the Internet on his MP4 player.
A second-year university student surrendered to Haidian police on Saturday morning with claims she had murdered a female classmate in a hotel.
Undeterred by heavy snowfall, 20 migrant workers stood outside the Beijing Film Studio yesterday hoping to become stars.
Beijingers rang in the New Year by going on a spending spree, according to statistics from the city's commerce commission.
City's heaviest snow since 1951 causes increasing number of minor accidents
Despite a possible increase in bone injuries and respiratory disease following the coldest day in almost 40 years tomorrow, some hospitals say they will not increase their medical staff.
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