Beijing
BEIJING has not put enough funding in protecting the city's historic areas and many residents in those areas still live in bad conditions, said a report released by the city's legislature on Saturday. ...
July 26, 2015, Sunday
BEIJING was honored by the World Health Organization (WHO) on World No Tobacco Day today for the city's new smoking ban, set to take effect on June 1. The new ban, the country's toughest to date, prohibits ...
May 31, 2015, Sunday
RESIDENTS in Beijing can report on indoor smoking in public venues after the smoking ban takes effect in June, a government official said today.
The Beijing municipal legislature passed a bill in November ...
May 10, 2015, Sunday
An arson suspect was detained on the spot on a bus en route from Beijing's outskirts to downtown area on Tuesday morning. No casualties were made. A man splashed unknown liquid in No. 814 Bus, when it ...
May 5, 2015, Tuesday
A MASSIVE tomb complex has been found in a southwest suburb in Beijing, the Beijing institute of cultural heritage said today.
The 70 hectare archeological site consists of 129 tombs built over 1,100 ...
March 1, 2015, Sunday
BEIJING will start levying construction dust pollution fees from March 1, the municipal environmental protection bureau announced today.
"Dust accounts for approximately 14 percent of PM 2.5 (fine particle) ...
February 27, 2015, Friday
THE number of accidents caused by fireworks on the eve of the Lunar New Year fell in Beijing this year, local authorities said today. In the hour from midnight yesterday to 1am today, there were 25 accidents ...
February 19, 2015, Thursday
Visitors walk past a passage of red lanterns during the annual temple fair at Badachu Park in Beijing, capital of China, today. The temple fair kicked off today, the first day of the Chinese Lunar New Year....
February 19, 2015, Thursday
Visitors get free food during a traditional blessing ceremony in the Badachu Park in Beijing today. The ceremony was the prelude to the new year temple fair which will be officially open to public on Feb. 19. ...
February 18, 2015, Wednesday
Visitors watch a lion dance during the opening of the annual temple fair at Ditan Park, also known as the Temple of Earth today. The eight-day temple fair kicked off here on Wednesday, on the eve of the Lunar New Year....
February 18, 2015, Wednesday