One resident's four-year fight against a heating company will go before a court for the fifth time, the longest such battle against unwanted public heating in Beijing.
More than 10 companies have been placed on a campus job fair blacklist as part of a crackdown on dodgy recruiters, the Beijing career guide center for graduates said.
Between now and Dec 25, Western expats in Beijing will be counting the days until Christmas. They happily buy and wrap gifts, decorate Christmas trees and plan holiday meals, cheerily humming Christmas carols all the while.
When I graduated from university four years ago, a classmate got a job as a municipal civil servant and bragged that he could spend his days doing very little, but still enjoy a better-than-average salary and welfare package. I thought he didn't have goals in life and I pitied him.
The gay bar funded by the Dali health bureau has become a controversial topic in the press, due to reporting by CCTV and Internet media. However, probably nobody in the debate had expected it would close on the eve of the World AIDS Day.
It's a subject most expats prefer to avoid, but the question still nags from time to time - what will happen to their body if they die in China?
It is a job that faces death every day, a job of creepiness, a job without much pay. But some young people treat the job of mortician as a life-long career and have discovered the meaning of death and life.
Huang Qiaoquan, director of the policy research office at the Beijing funeral supervision department, talks with METRO reporter Wang Ru about the funeral industry in Beijing and its prospects.
Real estate agents are advising property owners that they don't have to pay tax on rental income, despite a government regulation ordering that they do so.
Beijing electric bicycle users are angry at a proposal speculated to take effect next month which might put the brakes on the economical vehicle citywide.
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