Beijing is getting into the Christmas spirit. Restaurants, malls, and upscale residences are decked with boughs of paper holly. Window panes all around are scribbled over with frosty, misspelled cheer ("Merry Chrismas!"). Hotels lend their lobbies to adorable choir children and their adoring parents for holiday carols. And eager boyfriends in the city are busily making Christmas Eve plans. At least they should be.
As 2009 draws to a close, many of us are starting to decide on our New Year's Resolution. Several young ladies, I expect, will choose to lose 5 pounds again, while others might want to improve their finances or change jobs.
It was recently reported by China Central Television that some "online mafia" had tried to manipulate the public opinion and could "influence a court ruling" at the price of 50,000 yuan.
Although Michelle doesn't have a working visa or a background in teaching, the Brazilian teaches English full time to a class of 3-year-old children at a kindergarten in Wangjing, Chaoyang district.
With long blonde hair and blue eyes, Erika Andreasson, a 24-year-old from Sweden, is exactly what English schools in the city are looking for - except that she has neither a teaching diploma nor teaching experience.
It is 6 pm, an hour past the average kindergarten closing time of 5 pm. But a dozen children are still drawing pictures at the Naughty Monkey Kindergarten in Huilongguan, Changping district.
There has been an increase in the number of Beijingers pawning their apartments as they attempt to secure quick cash to buy new properties before the end of a tax exemption policy on Jan 1, pawnbrokers say.
Toilet paper will be available at more than 100 public washrooms from next year after a survey found its absence was among the top concerns of capital residents.
The world's first herbal medicine has been created specifically for the treatment of A/H1N1 flu, the Beijing municipal government said at a press conference yesterday.
Almost all brands of powdered milk are over promoted in supermarkets, in defiance of a marketing code, the Beijing Consumer Association said.
A tax on excessive rubbish disposal will be introduced next year in an attempt to combat the city's growing waste problem, local authorities said.
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