Members of the public got a rare insight on the weekend into how the capital rehabilitates its drug addicts.
More than 1,700 nursing aids in Beijing signed a collective bargaining agreement with their employer on Dec 16 that ensures their lowest monthly wage next year will be 1,300 yuan.
Movie magic that helped put parts of China and Japan on the holidaymakers' map could do the same for the capital, say tourism experts.
As the temperature plummeted on Wednesday to well below freezing, helping hands were already reaching out to help the city's homeless.
Multilingual notices welcomed but drive begins to make them better
The city is looking to dig out its so-called "mouse tribe" - the large population of mainly migrant workers that lives in cramped conditions deep underground.
Authorities have released a draft plan to ease the capital's traffic gridlock - including a cap on government cars. Passenger vehicle sales soar
The number of children who smoke is worrying doctors, with more than a quarter of students who use cigarettes saying they started puffing at age 10.
Twelve visually-impaired orphans brought the magic of Christmas to the capital this weekend with the performance of a holiday classic in aid of a fellow student in desperate need of surgery.
Strict policies introduced by the government to cool the rocketing real estate market in the capital have led many of the city's richest residents to look overseas for their real estate investments.
Beijing has drawn up an ambitious plan to solve its gridlock problem and get traffic moving again.
Dai Haifei, the young man who made headlines when he started living in a 6-square-meter egg-shaped mobile home in a bid to avoid the city's high rents, says he wants to legally carry on living in his novel digs.
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