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Following months of promises to clean up the notoriously smoggy city, Beijing has handed out its biggest fine for air pollution yet: 300,000 yuan ($48,100) to a US joint venture boiler...
by Joe McGee, 15 May 2014
Scientists in Beijing plan to build a 500 million yuan ($81 million) research facility to create artificial smog for anti-pollution research.
by Joe McGee, 03 March 2014
Facebook has announced plans to open a sales office in Beijing within the next year, prompting speculation over the company's future in a country where it has been blocked since 2009....
by Joe McGee, 13 May 2014
A 25 year old Beijing man has been sentenced to 5 years in prison for pretending to be a policeman.
by Joe McGee, 26 February 2014
A man has been detained for five days for telling officers at Beijing Capital International Airport that he had a bomb in his ass, after reportedly growing impatient with the wait to...
by Joe McGee, 20 March 2014
Desalinated seawater will be around 30% of Beijing's total water supply from 2019, in a move that will hopefully relieve water shortage in the dry region.
by Joe McGee, 15 April 2014
The governor of Tokyo told reporters in Beijing on Thursday that he hoped his trip to the capital would mend ties between China and Japan, which have been strained recently by several...
by Joe McGee, 25 April 2014
At least 11 people were injured after a gas tank exploded at a restaurant in Beijing’s Tongzhou district on Friday morning, Xinhua reports.
by Joe McGee, 31 March 2014
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