Changes in the pipeline are aimed at putting a shine on the city's housekeeping industry - bringing job security and health insurance to Beijing's 400,000 maids.
More than 4,000 children of migrant workers in Cuigezhuang town, Chaoyang district, will be stranded as five primary schools and seven kindergartens will be demolished on Sunday by the local government.
A famous model in the car industry vowed yesterday to bring a man who uploaded her explicit video to justice.
Ticket scalpers in Beijing who have been trying to sell Shanghai World Expo tickets on classified websites are complaining about a lack of interest.
Traffic to be affected due to bad weather next week as cold snap arrives
Job seekers are raising their expectations of pay and benefits on the strength of a shortage of labor and a recovering economy, recruiters said during the first career fair since Spring Festival.
As many as 481,000 migrant workers have flooded into the capital since Feb 17, 145,000 of which came to the city for the first time, but employers in some industries say they are still finding it hard to recruit workers for some industries.
Beijing has again beefed up punishment for drunken driving offences, as local authorities announced yesterday it would raise the 950-yuan annual compulsory traffic insurance by up to 60 percent for offenders starting next month.
By now, most of you are trying to recover from the excesses of the Chinese New Year holiday and are perhaps setting ambitious fitness goals to regain a slim waistline lost to a week of excessive eating, popping pills to get over a lingering cold brought on by the stress of travel or reeling from the utter loss of privacy and dignity suffered at the hands of visiting too many relatives.
Many foreigners in Beijing have Chinese girlfriends or wives. Why do they date Chinese women? Sexual need, curiosity, or love?
My upstairs neighbor's child is living proof that not all kids are harmless little angels - some are pure devils.
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