Thomas Trommler, director of a German consulting company, has been attending a monthly German club in the city since 2007. He has only missed the event twice, and both times he was on a business trip.
Fangjia Hutong, an ancient alley adjacent to the Lama Temple, is thriving as the city's next creative and cultural zone to challenge 798 Art Zone.
Beijing's disappearing hutongs hold the key to the rich history and culture of the capital
To tamp the population of stray cats, as many as 30,000 of the animals in Beijing have been spayed and neutered since 2006, thanks to a collaboration by the municipality, non-governmental organizations and veterinary hospitals.
A bidder stepped into the unknown Sunday afternoon, paying 2.8 million yuan at auction to snap up the sponsorship rights to Bird's Nest Stadium's staging of a Guinness world record attempt at endurance tightrope walking.
The biggest outdoor market in Beijing will build a refrigerated storage facility to store six tons of vegetables, enough to keep the market supplied with produce for as long as a month.
Three types of mushroom, including one produced locally, as well as Chinese sauerkraut, were taken off Beijing's shelves on Wednesday due to excessive amounts of sulfur dioxide.
With the college entrance examination still a month away, some universities have already begun to fight for the best high school graduates by offering generous scholarships.
Beijing will spend 60 million yuan in three years to encourage traditional Chinese hospitals and doctors to treat 10 ailments, including AIDS, diabetes and heart attacks.
When Li Fang and her business partners first named their online sex shop "X", they were well aware that business was not going to come easily.
Major telecom companies in Beijing are launching plans to raise the speed of their Internet services, with China Unicom aiming to top 20 Megabytes per second (Mbps) before the end of 2012.
China Unicom has cut the prices of contracts involving iPhones by almost 1,000 yuan, but pirated phones still remain many buyers' favorite choice.