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Beijing Considers Banning All Fireworks Within 5th Ring Road
Remaining in Beijing during the Spring Festival holidays may be something to consider next year now that local authorities are proposing a ban on all fireworks within the city's Fifth Ring Road.The...
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This Week In Health and Fitness: Up your Snack Game With Newly Available...
It's a common problem: you've just hopped off your bike after a long ride, just summited a mountain after a hard morning's hiking or just finished a sweaty workout at the gym and you want to reward...
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Win Tickets to Get Fit on the Great Wall This Autumn With Beijing Hiker's...
Hiking on the Great Wall may just be one of the most life-affirming activities you can do in Beijing. Up on the Wall, the sheer scale and majesty of the twists and turns it takes through Beijing's...
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Throwback Thursday: The Great Beijing Swimwear Faux Pas of 2009
Throwback Thursday takes a look back into Beijing's past, using our nine-year-strong blog archives as the source for a glance at the weird and wonderful of yesteryear.I doubt there will ever be a time...
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Travel + Leisure Magazine Names Waldorf Astoria Beijing's Top Hotel
Bad news for Beijing: yet another international list of travel destinations has been announced, and Beijing is nowhere near it. Not only was Beijing not included among Travel + Leisure magazine's top...
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Shopaholics Unite!: 5 Websites You Can Use to Shop That Aren't Taobao
Most of us are constantly battling the desire to shop online more. Check your office's front desk, and tell us: is there a single day when no parcel is delivered? It isn't just on 11.11 or Black...
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Beijing Beats: Sanlitun Vice, Shogun, TOKiMONSTA and Kyoka and Ueno Masaaki
Beijing Beats brings you the best in Beijing nightlife each weekend. Its aim: to help you soothe the woes of a long and stressful week with some out-of-body gyrating and some experiences you'd rather...
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People's Liberation Army Video Game Says The PLA is No Video Game
Chances are you may have missed Sunday's celebration for the 90th anniversary of the People's Liberation Army of China, held in the far-off deserts of Inner Mongolia without any disruption to local...
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Red Alert Raised as Torrential Rains Flood Southwest Beijing
The southwestern Beijing suburb of Fangshan was hammered by last night's heavy rainfall, flooding city streets and prompting authorities to deploy crisis contingency plans.A red alert for rainfall was...
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Beijing Has Become China's Leading Cashless Society
The breakneck pace of the adoption of online payment systems has led to the capital of China and its 21 million residents becoming its leading cashless society.Beijing has been named the country's...
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Distant Urban Moods: Anxt Shares New Beijing-Shot Video
We've been listening to the emotional, sometimes dreamy and strangely alienating electronic tracks from Anxt for a while now. The Beijing-based producer's pieces not only leave you moving your head in...
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Noise Pollution: Wu & The Side Effects, Boss Cuts, Vinicius Cantuaria
With August here and summer on its last legs, the music scene here in Beijing looks to take its slow and easy. Good on them – everyone needs a break once in a while. So while you may not be spoiled by...
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5 Things To Taste, Smell, Touch, Hear And See This Weekend
Beijing can be overstimulating to say the least. Let’s be real, sometimes even our sixth sense gets a decent workout, the one where you know that stick of chuan'r will get you sick for the next two...
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What’s Up in Beer: Guest Beers, Monkey’s Fist IIPA, Jing-A Free Beers and...
Ladies and gentlemen, the weekend is going to be hot. Like 36 Celsius degrees hot. But we don't let that stop us – nay, the extreme temperatures mean this weekend, cold brews are basically a medical...
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Troy: The Epic Horse Show Trots into the Bird's Nest This Friday
A show depicting ancient Greece's most enduring myth through the use of horses and state-of-the-art special effects begins a half-year residency at the Bird's Nest beginning today, Friday, August...
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Beijing Commuters Rescue Trapped Man by Pushing Subway Train Off Him
In a shining display of solidarity, over a hundred Beijingers were able to rescue a man caught in the gap between a subway and the platform at Dongzhimen Station by physically pushing a subway off...
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Kokomo's Rooftop At Risk of Closing After This Weekend; Owners Open New, More...
Party people, try not to despair. There's bad- but also good- news coming by way of Kokomo.Let's get the bad out of the way: Kokomo's rooftop – which has long been a hotspot for debaucherous Beijingers...
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Ko Tao: Catch Your Breath on Turtle Island
Thailand’s Ko Tao, also known as Turtle Island, has the best of both tropical worlds: incredible beaches made to lounge on and deep blue waters perfect for snorkeling and diving. The island gets its...
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The Job Hunt: AI Voice Acting, Camera Operator, Pro Football Tryouts, and a...
Summer is here! Who wants to spend Beijing's sunniest days locked up in a boring, dead-end job, with horrible colleagues you'd rather never see again? As our beloved reader, you should know that you...
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Mahjong Proposed to be Part of 2022 Beijing Winter Olympic Games
Chinese organizers are confident that the country's most popular traditional table game meets the gold standard as a submission has been made to include mahjong as a demonstration event at the 2022...
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