A protest held by the Greenpeace, called "Save the Tiger, Refuse Breeze", took place at the north Chaoyang branch of the French supermarket chain Auchan.
The Beijing government announced on Tuesday that, starting this month, it will double a 'high-temperature' subsidy for workers in the city whose workplaces are outdoors or hotter than 33 degrees Celsius.
Giant panda Yinghua is grieving three days after the death of her first cub and is recovering in the delivery room of Beijing Zoo.
Push to get environmentally damaging trucks off the road is an uphill battle.
Some 30 parents whose children do not have a Beijing hukou (permanent residency permit) started a journey "seeking justice" when they founded an organization on Saturday to lobby the government.
The real estate market in Beijing has been in the doldrums since April, when the most stringent economic policy in a decade, brought in to cool the overheated realty sector, was announced.
The city's meteorological center issued the year's first orange-coded heat alert on Monday as Beijingers cranked up their air conditioners and the capital's consumption of electricity hit a new record.
The Beijing Meteorological Bureau released the first high temperature warning of this summer on Saturday.
A city government proposal to end a ban on dogs taller than 35 cm has triggered a huge public response from those who prefer something a little larger.
Beijing police are turning their eyes inward for a month-long internal investigation that aims to expose and punish corrupt cops. The crackdown began Friday July 2 and will last for the month.
Officials announced on Thursday that the State Council approved a plan to merge the four districts in the core area of Beijing - Dongcheng, Xicheng, Chongwen, and Xuanwu - into two larger ones.
Beijing - Residents have been posting articles online to honor the memory of some of the capital's districts after hearing of the city's plan to merge Chongwen and Xuanwu districts with Dongcheng and Xicheng.
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