More than 8,000 Beijing households whose electric heating accounts had been in arrears for four months paid their bills within a week of the electric company's threat to cut off their power on Monday, Mirror Evening News reported.
Beijing restaurant owners should look for opportunities to sell their cuisine to other parts of China and abroad instead of just thinking their food was superior.
Beijingers spent an average of 66 yuan per meal per person at restaurants in the first three months of the year, an increase of 20 percent over the same period last year, a report by a popular restaurant review website has shown.
Under the tutelage of a noted Hong Kong film director, a Kunqu opera of an ancient Chinese lesbian story will be staged next month in the capital.
It's the type of book that would make sailors blush, but don't go buying it for grandma. Welcome to the book of Chinese slang.
HP expects to solve most customers' laptop problems in two to three weeks, before launching a comprehensive campaign to stimulate sales and rebuild the brand.
An outspoken blogger has been ordered to pay 100,000 yuan to an actress after he claimed online she had an affair with one of China's electronics retail tycoons.
More than 60 percent of people selling their homes say they plan to use the proceeds to buy another property, according to a report by Centaline property agency.
Police in Chongwen district have rounded up a gang of farmers that they say tricked a foreign company out of more than 140,000 yuan, Beijing News reported on Wednesday.
The works of foreign and domestic photographers will be on exhibit at more than 20 galleries in the city
A circus from Wuqiao, the hometown of acrobatics in China, was lured to the capital with dreams of big box-office returns. Instead, it has found that cracking the entertainment market here is tougher than a walk across a high wire.
Overweight trucks passing through the capital will soon face a tougher fine system that charges an extra 100 yuan for follow-up offences, the traffic management bureau announced Tuesday.
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