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Hotpot hospitality boils over at Haidilao chain

The motto at Haidilao is "service first, customers first."

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Faith has hope in charity work

Australian student talks to METRO reporter Todd Balazovic about Miss Laowai Pageant

Q & A

Most people are either running to Beijing or away from something back home, which would you say you are and why?

Parkour film producer banks on smooth moves

With her peers still in college, Yang Ziheng has landed her own first chance to make a movie and is already planning a second.

Casting wary eye on prize

People like to receive awards. One only has to sit through one of the annual media gush-fests with its endless roll calls of name-checks and thank-you's, and forced smiles and tears-to-order, to see how dear they are to thespians.

Appreciate modern architecture

When I moved to Beijing in 2006, one of my best expatriate friends, an Irish attorney who came here in the late 1990s, informed me that once upon a time, the city had just one tall tower, the Capital Mansion north of Sanlitun. Now there are over 300 skyscrapers in the Central Business District alone. Beijing, it is often said, currently resembles a circus tent, with highrises ringing the dwindling number of low-slung courtyard houses in its inner core.

How fair is it to consume breakfast on the subway?

As it grows warmer, more and more commuters will be taking breakfast with them to eat on the way to work. Crowded carriages will smell of meat, garlic and soy milk, and some passengers will be bothered. Is eating breakfast on the subway the sort of bad behavior that should be prohibited, like smoking?

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Feast for car lovers hits the city

Car enthusiasts are in for a treat with some of the world's best and most expensive cars at the Auto China 2010 exhibition.

'I just love cars'

Xu Bo talked to METRO about the luxury cars he owns.