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  • Time-honored brands urged to fight

    2010-09-16 08:02

    Companies that sell products with famous names and long histories - the so-called time-honored brands - are being warned to hurry up and register those brand names and trademarks in foreign markets, before rivals effectively steal them.

  • Human organ traders jailed

    2010-09-16 08:02

    Pair started by selling own body parts to pay parents' medical bills

  • Watches make good times for pawnshops

    2010-09-15 07:55

    Luxury watches have become the main goods exchanged for cash in Beijing pawnshops in recent years - and business is booming.

  • Parents protest over fate of school

    2010-09-15 07:55

    More than 100 angry parents encircled a school for migrant children on Monday to demand a refund in tuition fees or a transfer to another school for their children after a village committee said the institution must be closed before Sept 19.

  • Halfway house offers future to those with a past

    2010-09-15 07:55

    Many inmates find that the hardest day of their term is the one after their release - the moment they integrate back into society.

  • Census-takers feel pressure

    2010-09-14 08:00

    Two days before the scheduled end of the door-to-door surveying of Beijing households ahead of the latest national population census, many enumerators who have been pounding the pavements are expressing concern that the exercise will not be finished on time.

  • Amateur radio hams get the message

    2010-09-14 08:00

    Many ham radio users in Beijing received short messages from the Beijing Radio Administration Bureau on Saturday, reminding owners of private radio equipment to register with the bureau.

  • Cost of luxury still too high

    2010-09-14 08:00

    Luxury brands are expanding faster in Beijing than ever before, due to the growing demand for luxury goods from world famous brands from wealthy local residents, an industry insider said at a forum at the First Beijing Wangfujing International Brand Festival on Monday.

  • Festival aims to pack in tourists

    2010-09-14 08:00

    About 2,500 Chinese and foreign performers will gather on Qianmen Street for the start of the 12th Beijing International Tourism Festival on Sept 19.

  • Long arm of the law reaches out

    2010-09-13 08:38

    Police officers, foreign students celebrate culture during open day

  • Tiffany diamond stolen from mall

    2010-09-02 08:00

    Police with the Dongcheng branch of Beijing Municipal Public Security Bureau confirmed on Wednesday that they received a report of a diamond ring stolen last Friday from the Tiffany store at Beijing's Oriental Plaza.

  • Luxury properties not selling so well

    2010-09-02 08:00

    Most of the capital's luxury real estate projects are encountering poor sales even in the back-to-boom market, industry insiders revealed.

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