Job seekers are raising their expectations of pay and benefits on the strength of a shortage of labor and a recovering economy, recruiters said during the first career fair since Spring Festival.
As many as 481,000 migrant workers have flooded into the capital since Feb 17, 145,000 of which came to the city for the first time, but employers in some industries say they are still finding it hard to recruit workers for some industries.
Beijing has again beefed up punishment for drunken driving offences, as local authorities announced yesterday it would raise the 950-yuan annual compulsory traffic insurance by up to 60 percent for offenders starting next month.
By now, most of you are trying to recover from the excesses of the Chinese New Year holiday and are perhaps setting ambitious fitness goals to regain a slim waistline lost to a week of excessive eating, popping pills to get over a lingering cold brought on by the stress of travel or reeling from the utter loss of privacy and dignity suffered at the hands of visiting too many relatives.
Many foreigners in Beijing have Chinese girlfriends or wives. Why do they date Chinese women? Sexual need, curiosity, or love?
My upstairs neighbor's child is living proof that not all kids are harmless little angels - some are pure devils.
German with 31 years' experience runs bakery in downtown Beijing
If the name looks familiar, it could be its resemblance to the famous Japanese food maker, Pekochan, whose many products can be found in Japan as well as local Beijing 7-Eleven outlets. However, with no relation to Pekochan, the Pekotan bakery in Central Place looks like it has what it takes to be soon supplying quality food to Beijingers at large.
Jennifer Yeh went from the frenetic lifestyle of a TV commercial producer in downtown Manhattan to the owner of a small artisan bakery on the fringe of Beijing's Shunyi district almost entirely on a whim.
Premium property dealers claim the government's policy to resume restrictions on foreign people buying local properties will not hurt sales.
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