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.
Three criminals, who cheated more than 11 million yuan from 41 high school graduates by claiming they could get them into military colleges, were given jail sentences, the Beijing No 1 Intermediate People's Court ruled yesterday.
When we moved to Beijing from the Northeast in 1986, there was no question of bringing the family dog, Feihu. Those days, it would've been so "country cousin" to take a domesticated canine to the big city.
More than 2,000 years ago, Confucius said family and family values are the most important things for children to learn and understand. More than 200 years ago, another great philosopher, Jean-Jacques Rousseau said the principal of education is not to teach children with particular techniques of imparting information and concepts, but to develop their character and moral sense.
Beijing made progress in transparency when it held a special hearing on water price on Wednesday, but there was still room for improvement.
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