Beijing's largest used-car market is the perfect place to measure the popularity of any make or brand in China's booming motoring market. Huaxiang car market dealers and the thousands who flock there every weekend are clued into the latest auto trends and know what's hot and what's not.
A top expert on work safety is calling for strict laws to protect laborers after the city reported a total of 63 deaths in 52 accidents on its construction sites so far this year, as a result of loose safety standards in some building companies.
A citywide, real-time online monitoring system - the first of its kind in China- has been proposed by the Beijing Health Inspection Institute, to enhance the supervision on drinking water quality following the contamination of 17 cases of drinking water in 2009.
The Beijing Local Taxation Bureau published a list this week in the Beijing Daily newspaper of 35 companies that owe a minimum of eight million yuan each in unpaid taxes. Over 80 percent are in real estate and construction industries.
Five Taiwan men, assigned to the mainland to collect money from telephone scams, were arrested for their role in the single largest telephone scam in the mainland of 10.7 million yuan, police said yesterday.
Two stand trial for producing and selling more than 10 tons of counterfeit drugs
Residents who rely on shanzhai (copycat) satellite dishes to watch 48 national channels distributed by a live TV broadcasting satellite Zhongxing-9 will be blocked as the satellite gets encrypted in January next year. The encryption will blacken television screens for copycat dish users, according to the State Administration of Radio Film and Television.
A disabled man's claims of discrimination he faced with a tourist group in Hong Kong are raising concerns about traveling for the disabled.
Beijing traffic patrol yesterday denied it was plotting against a family who accused authorities of illegal entrapment when confiscating their unlicensed cab.
Some of METRO's journalists reflect on memorable reporting experiences in the past year
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