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[2010-02-26 08:02]

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Baker uses his loaf

[2010-02-26 08:02]

German with 31 years' experience runs bakery in downtown Beijing

Pekochan is city's best-kept secret

[2010-02-26 08:02]

If the name looks familiar, it could be its resemblance to the famous Japanese food maker, Pekochan, whose many products can be found in Japan as well as local Beijing 7-Eleven outlets. However, with no relation to Pekochan, the Pekotan bakery in Central Place looks like it has what it takes to be soon supplying quality food to Beijingers at large.

Recipe for career change

[2010-02-26 08:02]

Jennifer Yeh went from the frenetic lifestyle of a TV commercial producer in downtown Manhattan to the owner of a small artisan bakery on the fringe of Beijing's Shunyi district almost entirely on a whim.

Property ban on foreigners 'won't damage local market'

[2010-02-25 07:55]

Premium property dealers claim the government's policy to resume restrictions on foreign people buying local properties will not hurt sales.

'Murderer' of model arrested after tip-off

[2010-02-25 07:55]

Police believe they have captured one of the men responsible for the kidnap and murder of a 29-year-old model, Beijing Evening News reported yesterday.

Tourism bureau applies for transit visa extension

[2010-02-25 07:55]

The tourism administration has joined Beijing Capital International Airport (BCIA) to apply to extend the current 24-hour Transit Without Visa (TWOV) policy to seven days, after the head of the airport raised the proposal in the municipal people's congress in late January. As many as 4.5 million international travelers are expected to be affected, the tourism administration said.

Freebies pump millions into economy

[2010-02-25 07:55]

Despite the fact that tourism authorities in the capital tried to give away two million free tickets to local attractions last year as part of a massive promotion, only 346,000 people made the most of the offer.

Parents who lost daughter to establish charity fund

[2010-02-25 07:55]

Local villa owners compensated by developer for child killed by falling fireplace

Engineer jailed for stealing bank information

[2010-02-25 07:55]

A software engineer who abused his position to gather account information on almost one million people has been sentenced to five years for credit card fraud.

More schools, kindergartens for Chaoyang

[2010-02-25 07:55]

Eight more schools will be built this year in the populated Chaoyang district, as local authorities try hard to feed the city's hunger for vacancies among its 1.5 million students.

Card-playing nurses blamed for negligence

[2010-02-25 07:55]

An 84-year-old man almost died in a State-owned hospital when nurses failed to notice his heart and breathing had stopped because they were playing cards, relatives claimed.

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