Career advice in exchange for blood

City blood might be traded for job assistance in an unusual promotional scheme from the Beijing Red Cross Blood Center (BRCBC).

Family defends house of Qing Dynasty minister

The owners of the former residence of Li Hongzhang, a chief minister of the Qing Dynasty who tried to modernize China, have been ordered by local authorities to vacate the property to make room for a luxury hotel.

Beijing Bites

Lawsuit on bad bread

View from inside the IV room

In my three years in Beijing, I had sometimes heard stories that China's doctors have a direct and ubiquitous answer for helping patients who have something more than the common cold - insert a needle somewhere and pump medicine directly into their system with an intravenous (IV) drip.

Single people's Christmas crisis

The city of Beijing is getting festive with the arrival of Christmas. Shopping mall business is up, restaurant bookings are up, and box office ticket sales are up. Perhaps the only things "down" in the city are the feelings of single people.

On 'Billionaires' banquet baits beauties'

Billionaires hated by people

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Home for Christmas

For many expat families in China, where and how to spend Christmas is an annual dilemma. Where to get a Christmas tree? Where to buy the turkey or where to get Christmas stockings?

Festive shopping at Ikea

This year's most popular Christmas gifts from Ikea include home furnishings like pillows, blankets, vases and Christmas textiles to make curtains, according to Virginia Ni, PR specialist at Ikea in Beijing.

My wish list for the day

Billionaires' banquet baits beauties

It was the most expensive matchmaking party ever held in Beijing. There were 21 single billionaires, 22 single women and an admission fee of 100,000 yuan.

Tap water complaints flood health institute

There was an increase in the number of citizen complaints this year regarding drinking water quality, revealing the questionable quality of secondary supply water in the city.