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Old mine may house garbage-burning plant

[2010-02-05 08:00]

A controversial waste treatment project once slated for Liulitun, Haidian district, may be recycled and built instead in an isolated mountainous area far from populated parts of the city, a Beijing News report said yesterday.

Web Tsar in court for bribery

[2010-02-05 08:00]

The Beijing police bureau's former Internet chief, involved in the largest ever national computer anti-virus industry scandal, stood trial at Beijing No 1 Intermediate Court yesterday for taking bribes of up to 14 million yuan.

Coca-Cola fined for bottled insect in soft drink

[2010-02-05 08:00]

Beverage giant ordered to pay 2.05 yuan to customer over canned bug

7-year-old base land price to be updated

[2010-02-05 08:00]

The capital's base land price, which has remained steady for seven years despite soaring housing prices, will face its first adjustment since 2002 according to the local government.

Historic royal park faces public anger over fair

[2010-02-05 08:00]

Yuanmingyuan Park is disputing public claims they will profit from running a royal temple fair and that the event would harm the cultural heritage sites.

Kungfu could save soccer, says club boss

[2010-02-05 08:00]

A former businessman with a passion for soccer is hoping the principles of kungfu can save soccer in China, where the game has been dented recently by gambling scandals involving senior officials, club managers and players.

Beijing Bites

[2010-02-05 08:00]

Charges over 19 yuan

Whistle down wind with split pants

[2010-02-05 08:00]

With the Lunar New Year just around the corner, Beijing's modern facades have undergone yet another transformation. Glass-paneled doors are pasted over with red paper cut-outs of the word fu ("happiness"). Rhyming couplets auguring good fortune are hung around doorways. These festive adornments hark back to a time before skyscrapers, when more of Beijing looked like the last remaining "hutong" inside the Second Ring Road.

Anti-smoking ads are smoke screens to truth

[2010-02-05 08:00]

I have recently had daily exposure to an anti-smoking ad outside a bus stop on my way to work. It shows a blacked lung, presumably from smoking, and says "quit now, for your own health". I am not moved, and I don't think the ad works.

Chained boy raises issue of care for migrant children

[2010-02-05 08:00]

The scene of a two-year old boy from a migrant family being tethered to a pole in the street in Fangshan district aroused deep sympathy from Beijingers this winter. Little Jindan was tied to a roadside iron pole with a two-meter iron chain. Cheng Chuanliu, the father, said he did this out of safety concerns.

What's on

[2010-02-05 08:00]

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Festive family feasts

[2010-02-05 08:00]

Friends and family get together to enjoy big servings for a lucky and prosperous new year

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