Twenty-one flight attendants, who sued their employer after they were suspended from normal in-air work for 14 months due to the financial crisis, will get a total of 1 million yuan in compensation, Shunyi district court announced.
State-owned gasoline stations are offering price cuts on 93 octane gasoline in downtown Beijing, in alleged response to fierce market competition from private and foreign-funded gas stations.
With the price of courtyard houses continually increasing, Liu, 50, has been doing well. Liu has bought and renovated five courtyard houses, and currently rents three as self-catering accommodation for tourists.
Escalating prices for computer hardware in Zhongguancun are not down to a shortage of workers, despite the fact that the slow return of migrant workers to the production lines had been blamed.
Despite a recent crackdown on discs of pirated software and movies in the capital's technology center, Zhongguancun village, the shelves remain flooded with choice.
Beijing's exorbitant housing prices have come under attack among deputies to the ongoing national legislative meeting, as senior officials opened fire on the bubble in the property market.
Persistence is needed to raise the profile of translated books
A translator with an ear for both languages and the skill to move seamlessly between them is essential if a book is to be a success in another language
Energy guzzlers to be thing of the past
'Dated business model' and 'bad location' blamed
Beijing may soon require real estate developers to reveal the price of each individual apartment in their projects.
The busy season has begun for the legions of gift card scalpers who make a living from buying unwanted cards and reselling them.