TCM doctor jailed for deaths of two patients

A doctor practicing Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) will serve time in prison for his role in the deaths of two patients to whom he sold medicine containing high levels of arsenic.

Activists seek ban on city's brisk ivory trade

Stocks run low in antique market as Beijingers buy up tusks for festival gifts

Closer checks for online shopping scams

Beijing will invoke harsher monitoring of online trade to counter an eruption of Internet fraud cases.

Driver hits cop in first court case involving car ban violation

A man was sentenced to 10 months in jail at Haidian district court yesterday for a hit-and-run that left a police officer injured.

Beijing Bites

Woman jailed for jilted stabbing

Take the time to earn true love

We learned from the Beatles "money can't buy you love" but it was not until I read METRO in recent days that I wondered if it might actually be true.

Remember what marriage really means

Two weeks ago, I attended a friend's wedding in my hometown in Hebei province. I was happy for my friend's new life but shocked by the money spent on the ceremony that the parents' generation thought necessary.

City needs to make tenants vacate cultural relic sites

The fundamental way to ensure the safety of the city's cultural relic sites is to work out a timetable for tenants to vacate.

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Confusing Confucius

Top universities look for prospective students with weird and wacky interview and test questions

Do the new questions pass or fail?

Face-to-face interviews seek out creative thinking students

Creative thinking mattered the most when top students sat for interviews of the independent enrollment tests of Peking University last week.