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.
The brother of a man who was seriously burned after dousing himself in gasoline last week has filed a lawsuit against a village committee in Haidian district court.
A Chinese Mexican has been arrested on a charge of bigamy after his wives discovered each other on a popular social networking site, Beijing police reported yesterday.
Chairs used by Chinese leaders and renowned international guests during the 2008 Beijing Olympic games will be auctioned off this weekend in Beijing.
A university student who held two bank clients as hostages and got 100,000 yuan in ransom from a campus bank outlet was charged with hostage taking and not robbery, Haidian prosecutors said yesterday.
A 30-m-long icefall, which formed outside a high-rise near the east Third Ring Road over last weekend has been knocked down by property management due to security concerns.
City blood might be traded for job assistance in an unusual promotional scheme from the Beijing Red Cross Blood Center (BRCBC).
The owners of the former residence of Li Hongzhang, a chief minister of the Qing Dynasty who tried to modernize China, have been ordered by local authorities to vacate the property to make room for a luxury hotel.
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