Before Beijing upgraded its buses to accept swipe cards, commuters used to buy flimsy paper tickets. The bus conductor, tucking a hard-frame bag under her arm, would count off the tickets, mark and then peel them from the stack using a peculiar tool - a thick, double-ended pencil (red on one end and blue on the other), wrapped many times around with rubber bands on the ends.
A friend from Philadelphia told me that another robbery had happened in his neighborhood, just two minutes' walk from the apartment he shares with two other Chinese guys.
To mark the disaster that hit the old Summer Palace or Yuanmingyuan Park 150 years ago, a team of experts, sent to the United States to trace and document relics taken from the park, recently held a photo exhibition on their fact-finding trip.
Black Sesame Kitchen offers classes that demystify the magic of Chinese cooking
Taking part in conference calls and meeting clients make up most of Maria Kochetova's day but she still manages to find a special way to relax - something she calls a kind of "art".
Dongcheng district will dig and clear out 8 sq km of underground space in the next 20 years to fill with public constructions including shopping malls and subterranean roads.
Trains will be newer, more regular and safer after the Beijing subway system gets a major overhaul.
Chongwen district court said in a report yesterday that divorces are on the rise, echoing a local government statement last year that domestic violence was too.
Capital's travel agencies cast doubts on feasibility of proposed regulation
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