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  • Airline's wings clipped over canceled flight

    2010-06-03 07:50

    Hainan Airlines (HNA) was ordered by Chaoyang district court to pay a passenger 840 yuan in compensation for failing to inform him of the reason for a canceled flight.

  • 3-D cinema World Cup plan might be relegated

    2010-06-03 07:50

    A plan to let football fans watch the World Cup in 3-D, at cinemas from June 11, may be given the red card because of possible technical problems, high costs and a lack of security.

  • Coming down after jumping for dreams

    2010-06-02 07:55

    Aged 19 and a player on one of the top volleyball teams in China, William Liu began to notice what was happening around him. Senior teammates were getting injured, their bodies were wearing out and they were unable to return to the game and were put out to pasture like racehorses that had run a few too many times around the track.

  • A NASCAR experience that upset many Southern folk

    2010-06-02 07:55

    Rarely do we know about the lives of the pilots who fly us around the world. Our brief interactions with them consist of listening to in-flight announcements they make thousands of feet above the earth, or saying goodbye to them as we disembark from airplanes.

  • Beijing SUVs hope to climb back to former market peak

    2010-06-02 07:50

    Beijing-branded SUVs, once an iconic vehicle in China for their military styling, will make a comeback this year, Beijing Automobile Works (BAW) said.

  • Govt not ready to pull plug on trade-in subsidy

    2010-06-02 07:50

    Beijing municipal government has extended its subsidy program for household electrical appliances to continue boosting consumption.

  • Fashion maven knits global ambitions

    2010-06-01 07:49

    Chinese menswear brand aims to push Armani and LV off the rack

  • Wall of garbage just not acceptable

    2010-05-31 08:01

    A British environmentalist reveals his fight against wilderness litter

  • The return of a paradise lost in translation

    2010-05-31 08:01

    Twelve years ago, when scholar Zhu Jiarong was asked to translate A Lost Paradise, by Japanese writer Junichi Watanabe, into Chinese, she refused unless the publisher would agree to her terms: delete its explicit sexual content.

  • Assets exchange boosts finance reputation

    2010-05-31 07:52

    The first national financial assets trading platform - Beijing Financial Assets Exchange (BFAE) - is scheduled to start operating on Monday, showing the city's ambition to build a world-class financial center.

  • Crackdown shuts door on low-cost apartment cheats

    2010-05-31 07:52

    As many as 1,371 families have been caught concealing their savings and properties during the process of applying for low-cost apartments over the past year, according to the Beijing municipal commission of housing and urban-rural development.

  • Talking the talk gets Ku's blood flowing

    2010-05-28 07:51

    To most people, the idea of speaking in front of large audiences strikes fear into the heart and brings a tremble to the knees. Some people even fear public speaking more than death. But for Daphne Pei Ku, talking to a room full of people is her life.

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