With the Lunar New Year just around the corner, Beijing's modern facades have undergone yet another transformation. Glass-paneled doors are pasted over with red paper cut-outs of the word fu ("happiness"). Rhyming couplets auguring good fortune are hung around doorways. These festive adornments hark back to a time before skyscrapers, when more of Beijing looked like the last remaining "hutong" inside the Second Ring Road.
I have recently had daily exposure to an anti-smoking ad outside a bus stop on my way to work. It shows a blacked lung, presumably from smoking, and says "quit now, for your own health". I am not moved, and I don't think the ad works.
The scene of a two-year old boy from a migrant family being tethered to a pole in the street in Fangshan district aroused deep sympathy from Beijingers this winter. Little Jindan was tied to a roadside iron pole with a two-meter iron chain. Cheng Chuanliu, the father, said he did this out of safety concerns.
Friends and family get together to enjoy big servings for a lucky and prosperous new year
Back home in the United States, a lot of couples actually stay home on Valentine's Day - this is because traffic is bad and a lot of the good restaurants are so incredibly busy that the quality and service falls behind. A lot of couples opt to have a nice dinner a day earlier or later than the actual date.
Beijing's university students will be able to move at their own pace on the road to their degrees, taking between three and six years to graduate, if the city moves forward as expected with a more flexible credit system.
An unlicensed motorbike taxi driver who put his two-year-old son on a chain outside a shopping mall while he was at work in Fangshan district has refused to accept aid from the local government.
With a few clicks, Beijingers will be able to get an electric ticket sent to their mobile phones that will let them visit one of the capital's top 32 tourist attractions during Spring Festival.
Poisonous ingredients detected from bowls sold in Beijing's chain stores
Regulations that will raise parking fees in downtown Beijing this April are drawing criticism from car owners who say authorities are more concerned about collecting revenues than solving the city's endemic traffic problems.
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