Tag Archives: The Beijing News

Mother asks for leniency for man who murdered her son

Posted on 2008-07-15 by Eric Mu

The Beijing News (新京报): Tolerant spirit overrules death sentence in a murder trial.

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Whole country rushes for the Olympic bank note

Posted on 2008-07-10 by Eric Mu

Beijing Morning Post (北京晨报): The big image of today’s Beijing Morning Post shows an old couple proudly displaying their Olympic bank notes. The old man Mr. Xing said all members of his family – five in all – went to exchange for the notes and every one got one.

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Twin teen sex scandal, or hype?

Posted on 2008-07-09 by Eric Mu

The Beijing News(新京报) reports that two teenage twin girls’ were cheated and threatened for prostition.

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80,000 Peking ducks killed in tornado

Posted on 2008-07-07 by Eric Mu

The Beijing News (新京报): A tornado-like wind struck Beijing’s suburban Shunyi County in July 4. A poultry farm suffered heavy losses with about eighty thousand of its ducks killed when their pens collapsed.

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Land compensation dispute ends in murder?

Posted on 2008-07-04 by Eric Mu

Today’s Beijing News reported a violent death of a farmer in Ligezhuang, a village of Beijing’s suburban Miyun county. The big image on the front page of today’s Beijing News shows the son of the dead crying on his knees.

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Beijing’s Olympic traffic control policy

Posted on 2008-06-20 by Eric Mu

The Beijing News (新京报): Beijing is going to implement its long-pondered traffic control rules in order to clean up the air and reduce traffic congestion during the upcoming Olympic Games.

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Unsatisfactory automatic ticketing

Posted on 2008-06-11 by banyue

The Beijing News (新京报) announces the opening session of the 16th National Congress of The Communist Youth League of China (团十六大召开)

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Your guide to the gaokao

Posted on 2008-06-05 by Joel Martinsen

Pengcheng Daily features a comprehensive guide to taking the college entrance exams. It also steals shamelessly from The Beijing News.

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The official Olympic cheer

Posted on 2008-06-05 by Joel Martinsen

Let’s go Olympics! Let’s go Beijing!

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Govt. loosens post-earthquake birth control

Posted on 2008-05-26 by Eric Mu

The Beijing News (新京报) reports on a modification in the country’s birth control policy with a personal account of a local villager who lost his two daughters to the earthquake.

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