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.
Police believe they have captured one of the men responsible for the kidnap and murder of a 29-year-old model, Beijing Evening News reported yesterday.
The tourism administration has joined Beijing Capital International Airport (BCIA) to apply to extend the current 24-hour Transit Without Visa (TWOV) policy to seven days, after the head of the airport raised the proposal in the municipal people's congress in late January. As many as 4.5 million international travelers are expected to be affected, the tourism administration said.
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.
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