The city's fire department launched its official micro blog on Monday to broadcast information from actual fire scenes and to spread self-rescue tips to residents.
As part of a campaign to improve air quality, drivers who scrap old cars or sell them to buyers outside Beijing can receive subsidies put toward a new vehicle.
A monitoring device that can photograph customers' faces clearly started operating in large and medium-sized supermarkets and shops across Beijing.
A dozen escalators for the capital city's Yizhuang subway line have been recalled because they have the same risk of malfunction as the one that took the life of a 13-year-old boy on July 5.
Twenty-five participatants of the first "International Program for Teachers of Chinese Culture" attended their graduation ceremony at Yilun Hall of the Imperial College in Beijing Saturday.
For Wang Ning, one of the biggest headaches about taking his 3-year-old son to play in Xuanwuyi Park on weekends was finding somewhere to park. Not any more.
A regulation that requires bars, restaurants, hotels and bookstores to install expensive Web-monitoring software has sparked controversy.
To satisfy the growing demand for sports grounds and other facilities for public use, the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Sports will open more school sports fields to the public.
Residents in picturesque Shichahai woke on Wednesday morning to find heavy rain and winds had brought down some 100 trees, damaging cars and houses.
A sudden downpour hit Beijing Tuesday night, disrupting traffic in many parts of the city.
The number of citizens in Beijing using private vehicles as their primary means of daily transport decreased for the first time in recent years.
Subway bosses have been urged to prevent overcrowding on trains and in stations, as officials look to step up safety in the wake of several fatal accidents on public transport.
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