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  • Foreign schools woo Chinese students

    2012-10-21 08:12

    The China Education Expo 2012 kicked off on Saturday in Beijing, attracting more than 500 overseas institutions and education bureaus from 38 countries and regions across the world.

  • Beijing to protect city's famous sites

    2012-10-17 16:42

    Beijing will preserve historical building and the former residences of famous people under a draft bill by the Beijing Municipal Commission of Urban Planning.

  • Beijing to relocate Babaoshan cremation facilities

    2012-10-13 20:17

    Cremation facilities at the Babaoshan Revolutionary Cemetery will be relocated to Beijing's outskirts within five years, a local official said.

  • Tian'anmen screens show best of China to world

    2012-10-02 08:14

    In Tian'anmen Square in the heart of Beijing, tourists from all over the world are gazing up at the two big LED screens set up in the center of the square.

  • Beijing releases real-time PM2.5 data

    2012-09-28 21:20

    Real-time data regarding particulate matter (PM) 2.5 will be released regularly starting from Friday, an official from the Beijing Environmental Protection Monitoring Center said.

  • Controversy flares over research of tot teachers

    2012-08-31 07:49

    Many kindergartens require their teachers to carry out educational research as part of their work, which sparks public debate.

  • Tower to dominate Beijing skyline by 2016

    2012-08-30 14:32

    China Zun, a 528-meter building, will dwarf all the other buildings in the central business district in Beijing upon its completion.

  • Bachelors seek love from billboard ad

    2012-08-30 07:39

    Three young bachelors have posted their pictures and personal information on a billboard on a bustling Beijing street and are waiting for calls from their future wives.

  • Marriage medicals fall to 7% in Beijing

    2012-08-27 13:24

    The capital will not restore compulsory premarital medical checkups but they will be available on a voluntary basis, the Beijing Morning Post reported.

  • Car plate applicants exceed 1m in Beijing

    2012-08-27 07:32

    A record 1-million-plus people in Beijing competed for fewer than 20,000 registration certificates qualifying them to buy cars through a lottery system.

  • Trustee councils set up at Beijing hospitals

    2012-08-23 07:30

    A council of trustees has been established in two public hospitals in Beijing as part of an ongoing medical institution reform in the municipality.

  • Women's conference held in Beijing

    2012-08-22 16:52

    Five successful career women gave speeches at the recent Third Annual of Women and Youth Leadership Conference in Beijing.

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