Despite the fact that tourism authorities in the capital tried to give away two million free tickets to local attractions last year as part of a massive promotion, only 346,000 people made the most of the offer.
Local villa owners compensated by developer for child killed by falling fireplace
A software engineer who abused his position to gather account information on almost one million people has been sentenced to five years for credit card fraud.
Eight more schools will be built this year in the populated Chaoyang district, as local authorities try hard to feed the city's hunger for vacancies among its 1.5 million students.
An 84-year-old man almost died in a State-owned hospital when nurses failed to notice his heart and breathing had stopped because they were playing cards, relatives claimed.
I was surprised when I went with my girlfriend to one of Beijing's famed antique streets for a nose-around.
The Pangu Plaza is renowned all over China, let alone in Beijing. It is said its rooftop courtyard houses are only for lease, not for sale, with rents as high as 1 million yuan per day. You can imagine their prices during the Beijing Olympics. The public has just known from the commission of urban planning that the courtyard houses couldn't be sold. But the project can now be traded legally with the administrative penalties.
Gu Yue and Liu Chang hitchhiked from Beijing to Berlin last year in order to visit Gu's German girlfriend. The pair caught 88 rides in 13 countries in the more than 100 days they spent on the road and, as they went, made a 16-episode documentary series, To Berlin By Thumb, which is currently airing on the Travel Channel.
For those who have spotted a clown riding a motorbike through Beijing recently, we assure you that you were not imagining things.
Many are drawn to the Houhai area because it offers a more comfortable environment than its seedy Sanlitun cousin. Occupying ancient hutong the bars and shops offer a unique ambiance and artsy feel that have made it popular.
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