A policeman who worked at a detention center and who solicited bribes from detainees was sentenced to 11 years in prison at Xicheng district court on Monday.
As netizens harvest their online "vegetables" on social networking websites like Kaixin001.com, others are considering becoming "metropolitan farmers" and spending their spare time planting farms in real urban villages.
Netizens will be able to communicate with the Beijing police through microblogs in the near future, with the founding of the Beijing police's first public relations branch.
Merchants at the Zhongguancun electronics market in the capital are scrambling to buy second-hand high-end electronics products and pass them off as new in their stores in one of the year's busiest times for the scam.
More postal parcels arriving in China from other countries will be subject to an import tax from Sept 1, according to the latest customs regulation.
Care workers cannot keep up with demand in the capital's hospitals, prompting the Beijing health bureau to announce it will train more staff this year.
Police have issued a warning after an elderly woman from Southern Asia living in Beijing was swindled out of 1 million yuan.
Beijing government will spend around 100 million yuan on the purchase of social service projects, aiming to meet various needs of the public and boost the development of social organizations.
Allegations of widespread cheating and complicity from teachers during Beijing Open University (BJOU) final exams have been reported in Beijing News.
"I was told unexpectedly a few days ago that my English classes were going to be cancelled," said Liang while sitting in the corridor on the eighth floor of Building Nine of Jianwai SOHO, Chaoyang district.
Beijing's first ethical trade fair, held on Saturday, had all the right ingredients: a charismatic guest speaker, good venue, extensive publicity and a driven and passionate founder.
Thriller Live, a world-touring musical celebrating pop king Michael Jackson's talents, started to rock Beijing on Sunday.