Since I'm not Chinese, it's very likely that the humor attempted in Tuesday's column, Dear Laowai, don't mess with our Chinese-ness, was simply lost on me.
With the Spring Festival approaching, train tickets will once again be the most sought-after commodity for many and, no doubt, there will be lots of "hard blows" from the police against ticket scalpers. But will tickets be easier to get, once all the scalpers are gone? Perhaps.
"I've totally had those no pants dreams," said heavy metal legend Kaiser Kuo about performing acoustic sets with his new band, Chunqiu, or Spring and Autumn.
Composer, performer, instrument maker, "multiple flutist" - Canadian Bruce Gremo is a man of many titles. On Jan 29 he will be the title act at the Beijing Conservatory as he showcases a self-invented flute via telecast to both Beijing and Canada.
A painting that looks like a sparking electrical bolt - made not with an brush but by a whirling machine - and a seemingly traditional Chinese painting executed with acrylics are among the striking works at an exhibition called Reclaim, Manifest in 798 art district.
About 200 families in a village in western Beijing eagerly await compensation for their newly built bungalows as the government prepares to buy up their land for the relocation of the city's largest crematorium.
Local police officers may end up facing charges for alleged wrongdoing connected to the deadly blaze that severely damaged the brand new five-billion-yuan CCTV tower last February, local media reported yesterday.
Daxing military training base, where 3,100 first-year students of Beihang University underwent military training in October last year, was fined 60,000 yuan for negligence in the death of the first A/H1N1 patient in Beijing, the city's public emergency management office said.
Tickets for the 3-D and IMAX versions of the blockbuster movie Avatar were selling for up to four times their original price during the first weekend of James Cameron's epic film.
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