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7-year-old base land price to be updated

[2010-02-05 08:00]

The capital's base land price, which has remained steady for seven years despite soaring housing prices, will face its first adjustment since 2002 according to the local government.

Historic royal park faces public anger over fair

[2010-02-05 08:00]

Yuanmingyuan Park is disputing public claims they will profit from running a royal temple fair and that the event would harm the cultural heritage sites.

Kungfu could save soccer, says club boss

[2010-02-05 08:00]

A former businessman with a passion for soccer is hoping the principles of kungfu can save soccer in China, where the game has been dented recently by gambling scandals involving senior officials, club managers and players.

Beijing Bites

[2010-02-05 08:00]

Charges over 19 yuan

Whistle down wind with split pants

[2010-02-05 08:00]

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.

Anti-smoking ads are smoke screens to truth

[2010-02-05 08:00]

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.

Chained boy raises issue of care for migrant children

[2010-02-05 08:00]

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.

What's on

[2010-02-05 08:00]

Stage

Festive family feasts

[2010-02-05 08:00]

Friends and family get together to enjoy big servings for a lucky and prosperous new year

The way to a lover's heart...

[2010-02-05 08:00]

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.

Romance in the air on Valentine's Day at restaurants

[2010-02-05 08:00]

Brasserie Flo

Credit system to benefit students in job hunting

[2010-02-03 07:51]

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.

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