Language school closes doors on students
2009-10-26 09:10:30
Nearly 400 foreign language learners in Beijing may face up to 4 million yuan ($587,000) of financial losses after a major language training company suspended operation last Wednesday.
Center specializes in senior care
2009-10-26 09:08:00
Like most caretakers in hospitals, 42-year-old Zhang Yongqin hopes her patients get better every day. But unlike most caretakers, she hopes her patients will stay in the hospital day after day.
Gay movies help change taboo
2009-10-26 09:04:41
Two Saturdays ago, a modest crowd gathered at The Boat on Beijing's Liangmahe road because they wanted to watch queer films.
A day of a Beijing sweeper
2009-10-26 08:58:31
Editor's note: Today is Sanitation Workers' Day. METRO spent a full workday with Pei Zhihuan, a 42-year-old woman who has been a street sweeper since 1991 in the fourth division of the Chaoyang environment and sanitation center in Beijing. Her department is responsible for keeping the 2.5-km street tidy in the northwest part of the 3rd Ring Road.
Wife of murdered professor doesn't hate killer
2009-10-26 08:57:34
The wife of a professor at the China University of Political Science and Law who was stabbed to death by a student, said she will not ask for compensation and does not hate the murderer.
Caring for 'invisible elderly'
2009-10-26 08:22:15
The renovation of a senior citizen center on the outskirts of Beijing was supposed to make life better for the elderly who depend on it every day. Yet since the restoration was completed earlier this month, life has only got worse, they say.
Fit for royalty
2009-10-24 16:04:21
The city's oldest commercial area, the 600-year-old Dashilan'er Street next to Qianmen, has emerged in a Phoenix-like manner from last year's massive renovation.
Beijing's first severe H1N1 case dies of other illnesses
2009-10-24 15:34:38
A 72-year-old man, the first severe A/H1N1 influenza case in Beijing, died of chronic illnesses early Friday morning even after the flu was cured, local hospital said Saturday.
Tourists now come to Bird's Nest to roost
2009-10-24 09:15:04
Move over Palace Museum and Summer Palace, Bird's Nest and Water Cube are here.
Housing prices see new gains in Beijing
2009-10-23 14:24:20
The average price in the first nine months of this year for future delivery homes located within Beijing's Fourth Ring Road was 19,109 yuan ($2798.8) per sq m.
Crashing cultural heritage
2009-10-23 11:40:20
A car crashes into the gate of the former goverment building of premier Duan Qirui(1865-1936), who ruled Beijing in the early 1920s during China's troubled warlord period.
Foreign schools limit Chinese for diversity
2009-10-23 11:31:24
Foreign participants in the China Education Expo in Beijing has expressed concerns that the admission of too many Chinese students into one education program may reduce their chances of developing an international perspective necessary to compete in an increasingly interconnected world.