Completely enclosed three-wheeled motorbikes, resembling miniature cars, are the newest target of traffic police harking concerns over safety standards.
The city's largest relief center, or homeless shelter, is worrying that the current freezing weather, as well as the coming Spring Festival, will further strain its resources.
In the past couple of weeks, the government has made bold moves to protect citizens from vulgarity or immorality.
Ask how many homeless cats are in Beijing and you will get an answer of between 500,000 and 5 million. But ask how many homeless people there are in Beijing and it seems the only answer is "we don't know".
Xu Jianing, a 12-year-old boarding primary school student, hasn't had a whole weekend off for almost three years. Her spare time has been crammed with all kinds of extra courses since she was 10.
The school education in the city, like everywhere else, is known for excessive study load and tough, sometimes unnecessary, exams.
A local mother's list of expenditures on various extra classes her son attended in 2009, with the total amount reaching 72,360 yuan.
Children born in 1999 and 2003 will face the least competition in middle school entrance examinations over the next 10 years, a demography expert suggests.
Dozens of guards hired by a local land leasing company yesterday tried to evict operators of three restaurants who refused to move away without demolition compensation.
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