Tag Archives: The Beijing News

Explosions in military facility injures 20

Posted on 2010-08-18 by Alice Xin Liu

The Beijing News reports an explosion in Fengtai district (丰台) on the outskirts of Beijing

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Get ready for your morning exercise

Posted on 2010-08-04 by Joel Martinsen

Radio exercises resume next week in the capital.

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Beijing seeks to reduce its low-end workforce

Posted on 2010-08-03 by Joel Martinsen

Beijing to limit low-end industries and other sectors employing large numbers of migrant workers. High-end talent to move freely between Beijing and Tianjin.

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Performing at funerals: professional mourners in Chongqing and Chengdu

Posted on 2010-07-23 by Joel Martinsen

A look at the funeral performance industry in Chongqing and Chengdu, from The Beijing News.

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Beijing to merge downtown districts

Posted on 2010-07-02 by Joel Martinsen

Chongwen and Xuanwu Districts to disappear, reports The Beijing News. Also, a history of Beijing’s administrative divisions.

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Court receives warning letter from local authorities in frog compensation case

Posted on 2010-06-30 by Joel Martinsen

The Beijing News reports on a land requisition lawsuit brought by a local frog farmer in which the court received a warning letter from a local party committee before handing down a verdict in the town’s favor.

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New evidence rules in death penalty cases

Posted on 2010-05-31 by Alice Xin Liu

The Beijing News today reports that China’s women soccer and table tennis teams have lost championship titles, it also slapped the bold headline “6 types of evidence that cannot be used for deciding the death penalty” on the front page. Sunday saw two regulations issued in relation to the death penalty, both disallowing illegal means to garner confessions

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A doctor who prescribes beans and eggplant as cure-alls

Posted on 2010-05-28 by Joel Martinsen

Zhang Wuben charges 2,000 RMB for a consult and prescribes mung beans, eggplant, and daikon. Now he’s being exposed as a fraud in the Chinese press.

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Crimes nipped in the bud after security surge

Posted on 2010-05-12 by Eric Mu

According to the Beijing police, seven crime attempts targeting students have been prevented or interfered with successfully; ten suspects have been arrested.

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Peking University experimenting on live cats for medical teaching?

Posted on 2010-05-10 by Eric Mu

According a tip-off from an anonymous source, The Beijing News conducted an incognito investigation into an allegation accusing medical school of Peking University of animal rights abuse.

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