When we moved to Beijing from the Northeast in 1986, there was no question of bringing the family dog, Feihu. Those days, it would've been so "country cousin" to take a domesticated canine to the big city.
More than 2,000 years ago, Confucius said family and family values are the most important things for children to learn and understand. More than 200 years ago, another great philosopher, Jean-Jacques Rousseau said the principal of education is not to teach children with particular techniques of imparting information and concepts, but to develop their character and moral sense.
Beijing made progress in transparency when it held a special hearing on water price on Wednesday, but there was still room for improvement.
Event planner Jaime Daza knows how to throw a good party.
Dodgy vendors are once again hawking fake tax invoices on the streets of Beijing, as workers scramble for receipts to bolster their yearly bonus.
Three workers are dead and more could be injured following a gas explosion at a private chemical plant in south Beijing's Fangshan district yesterday.
An auction of Chinese paintings and sculpture has been canceled after some of the artworks were found to be fake.
Poor construction is to blame for the collapse of a television studio on Sunday, police said, as the number of injured people rose to 18 yesterday.
With authorities taking a harder stance on unlicensed audio and video download sites, Beijing's illegal DVD vendors are anxiously awaiting a possible increase in sales.
A 16-year-old boy died five hours after receiving an injection at an illegal medical clinic in Chaoyang district on Sunday, the district health bureau said.
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