Tag Archives: The Beijing News

School violence: does it belong in the news?

Some newspapers report on the stabbings at a kindergarten in Taixing, Jiangsu Province, but most report obliquely on new measures intended to improve school campus safety.

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Higher parking rates and capsule apartments

From 7am on April 1, parking fees for the western section of Zhongguancun (中关村西区), Xidan (西单), Financial Street (金融街) and other core non-residential districts (making 13 in all), will rise. This encompasses 70,000 parking spaces; half of these are underground, and around 3,000 ones are on the side of the road.

On bottom right, an interesting Q&A with an old man who has designed several “capsule apartments” by renovating rented property

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Beijing Film Academy to train crosstalk performers

SARFT has instructed the university to recruit xiangsheng (相声) students to meet the requirements of contemporary society.

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Rumors and follow-up for Tianjin bus incident

Since Monday rumors have been flying about the cause of the incident, including the suspect’s brother iterating that Zhang Yimin, the suspect, reported that his wife and daughter had been kidnapped to the bathing center opposite his residential complex. Today, The Beijing News follows up with interviews with neighbors and a call-in reader who wanted to verify some details in their earlier report.

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Drive for development fuels illegal land seizures in Pizhou

An investigation into the land controversy in Pizhou, whose villagers recently staged a large protest against local government leaders.

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Tianjin bus attack kills 9, injures 11

The local government has affirmed that yesterday morning in Tianjin’s CBD are there occurred a malicious bus attack incident, the suspect Zhang Yimin (张义民) drove a bus down on many roads hitting and rolling people over. At present there are 9 dead, and 11 injured. The injured includes 4 police.

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No newspapers sold in subway stations but one

Today’s The Beijing News reported on the decision that every newspaper had to be taken out of Beijing subway stations apart from Star Daily (北京娱乐信报).

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Women should postpone pregnancy to awoid swine flu

The Beijing News: Women should avoid getting pregnant until after the swine flu pandemic is over.

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Retirement benefit accounts will be transferable between provinces

Starting January 1st, 2010, the retirement pension accounts would be inter-transferable between different provinces and prefecture-level cities. The minimum retirement pension of the “enterprise employees” will be raised by approximately 10 percent,

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MIIT considers a white-list of approved websites

MIIT may require government registration if a website desires to be accessible on the mainland.

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