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  • 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.

  • Hospital congested as 24-hour service opens

    2012-08-20 18:31

    The Peking Union Medical College Hospital, a renowned general hospital in Beijing, began a 24-hour appointment registration service on Sunday to ease the morning tension of registrations and restrict scalpers' illegal sale of appointment tickets.

  • Beijing insurance companies pay $142m after floods

    2012-08-01 21:52

    Insurance companies in Beijing had to pay out about 900 million yuan ($142.37 million) in compensation due to the damages caused by the floods that hit the region on July 21.

  • Man injured after pavement collapses

    2012-08-01 19:55

    A man was injured on July 31 after he fell on a pavement that collapsed in the crossing of Baiyunlu Street and Chang'an Street in Beijing's Xicheng district, the district's governmental micro blog said.

  • Driver blocks entrance, stabs car lot attendant

    2012-07-31 19:57

    A Beijing parking attendant was beaten and stabbed in the arm after he confronted the driver of a sports car who had blocked the entrance to a parking lot.

  • Beijing to see more heavy rains

    2012-07-27 20:57

    Beijing issued an alert for possible geological disasters Friday afternoon, as a new round of rainstorms is expected to pelt the capital from Friday evening to Saturday.

  • Qi Gong exhibition opens at National Museum

    2012-07-27 16:26

    An exhibition featuring the works of renowned Chinese calligrapher Qi Gong opened at the National Museum of China on July 26, to mark the late artist's 100th birthday.

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