Walmart, Ito Yokado and Tesco are bottom of Greenpeace China's 2009 supermarket ranking for its double standards regarding vegetable and fruit safety in China and abroad.
Residents seek help from district congress deputies to push lawsuit ahead
Medical care and housing were the top concerns of Beijing residents in 2009, said a new report released yesterday.
Two stores have been found selling police equipment without asking for identification from buyers.
Beijing police have cracked down on a pick-pocket gang of 27 suspects from Hebei province.
For 20 years, I lived in Anglophone countries as "Zhai Qi" or "Qi Zhai". I love the simplicity of my two-syllable name, with its alphabetic gaggle, because it identifies me as uniquely Chinese. However, on some occasions - like during client meetings in Ohio - I did feel things would have been a lot easier if I had an English moniker.
Zhu Haiyang, a PhD candidate at America's Virginia Tech, who beheaded his Beijing friend Xin Yang last year, was sentenced to life in jail on Tuesday. To everybody's surprise, his motivation was simply that: "I loved her too much, but she refused my love."
If you visit southern cities in China nowadays, you can feel an overwhelming Christmas atmosphere everywhere.
Having champagne or vodka in two 'spirit centric' bars in downtown Beijing
Back home we would celebrate Christmas at my auntie Hannah's house. Christmas was a good time to eat a lot of food and drink copious amounts of alcohol, but back then it was mostly about the time spent with family and friends.