Search toughens for daily reading fix

Traditional print and its loyal followers suffer impact of decision by Beijing city authorities to remove newsstands amid changing Chinese media market, reports Hou Liqiang.

Every day for as long as she can remember, 84-year-old Beijing resident Ma Xiuying has headed to the newsstand near her home in the capital's Chaoyang district at about 8 am.

Her breakfast would be incomplete without the Chinese-language Bejing Times newspaper.