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Beloved Mexican-Korean Fusion Restaurant Palms LA to Close Gulou Branch, Jan 27
Sad news of yet another hutong closure came this weekend when everyone's favorite Korean-Mexican fusion restaurant (okay, perhaps the only Korean-Mexican fusion restaurant) Palms LA Kitchen and Bar...
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Travel: Avoid the Crowds at Hunan's Zhangjiajie, China's Avatar Mountains
The UNESCO world heritage listed national park, officially known as Wulingyuan Scenic Area, is a vast, prehistoric warren of sandstone peaks and troughs, with thin monoliths piercing the sky like...
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Beijing Health Authority Quotes Same Smoking Statistic Two Years in a Row, No...
Everyone loves good news; it's so in demand that people would rather receive no news than anything bad.So when the Beijing municipal health and family planning commission convened a press conference on...
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China Builds "World's Biggest Air Purifier" (and Didn't Bother to Tell Anyone)
When today's news reported that China is home to the "world's tallest air purifier," we immediately thought of the 798 art installation exhibit that, even though it has been panned as ineffectual,...
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China’s Sputnik Moment: Q&A With SupChina's Jeremy Goldkorn on the Global...
This post comes courtesy of our content partners at TechNode.Ahead of SupChina’s ‘Next China’ conference in New York, we spoke to SupChina editor and old China hand Jeremy Goldkorn about all things...
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Beijing Authorities Say Flu Epidemic to Subside Within Two Weeks
After weeks of increasing rates of infection that have affected tens of thousands of city residents, Beijing authorities are assuring the public that the flu outbreak will begin to subside over the...
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Three New Subway Lines Open on Beijing’s West Side
Beijing’s ever-expanding subway system has welcomed three more lines on the city’s west side.Line S1, the Yanfang Line (燕房线), and the Xijiao Line (西郊线) started operation last December 30, bringing the...
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New Podcast BaeJing Hopes to Use Beijing as a Window to Learn More About the...
Although we ourselves work in the written media, we're big fans of podcasts. So when we heard there was a new Beijing-focused podcast on the horizon, of course, we were excited. Created by long-time...
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Beijing Beats: Miami Vice, Cyantific and The Prototypes, Vicetone, Skarra Mucci
Beijing Beats brings you the best in Beijing nightlife each weekend so that you can soothe the woes of a long and stressful week with some out-of-body gyrating and some experiences you'd rather forget...
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Bringing the Beef: Does This Hutong Bar Have Beijing’s Best Burger?
Conventional wisdom and crowd-sourced opinion would have you believe that Beijing’s best burger can be found at Q Mex, but what if there was a burger joint in town so sure of their success that they...
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China Railway Site Sees 5.93 Billion Clicks Per Hour as Busiest Travel Season...
This post comes courtesy of our content partners at TechNode.China’s chunyun (春运) – the busiest travel period in China before and after Spring Festival – sees hundreds of millions of people return home...
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Lame Duck: Da Dong Bombs in Big Apple
Da Dong is the big name in duck in Beijing, but its splashy arrival in NYC has landed with a limp quack. New York Magazine food critic Adam Platt was less than impressed with the Beijing-based...
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Beijing Continues to Lag Behind Shanghai for Business and Expats
The long-running rivalry between Beijing and Shanghai continues to slide into irrelevance as the latter builds on its success as China's top city for doing business and attracting expats.Out of the...
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Dozens of Pet Dogs Killed in Latest Beijing Neighborhood Poisoning
Beijing pet owners are reminded to remain vigilant after dozens of pet dogs have died from ingesting poison that has been allegedly placed around a Chaoyang neighborhood.Since Dec 29, some 30 pet dogs...
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Liu Xingke Discusses Putting 5,000 Years of Chinese History Into One Song...
Liu Xingke is an old-school rocker with a poet’s soul. The veteran singer-songwriter got his start in the early 2000s, when now shuttered venues like Chaoyang Park’s Big Easy Bar were the focal points...
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What’s Up in Beer: Beer Takeover at Queenie's, Year of the Rooster Farewell...
Hey beer lovers, the lucky among you (including some of Beijing's top brewers) may have recently swapped the cold grasp of Beijing for the sunny beaches of Southeast Asia, making January a low season...
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Throwback Thursday: When Gucci and Every Other Luxury Brand Made a Beijing...
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.There may well have been nine...
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"Permanent Makeup is Not Tattooing": A Visit to Xinyuanli's Beverly Hills...
The idea of permanent makeup for your brows is understandably intimidating and often receives its fair share of flak when it's distastefully or poorly realized. Nadia Fomenko, the owner and artist of...
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Ban Overturned, Mobile Phone Use Finally Permitted on Chinese Airlines
After years of waiting and lagging behind much of the world, China has finally delivered on a promise to end its ban on mobile phone use during commercial air travel.Passengers have now been allowed to...
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American Mall Mainstay The Cheesecake Factory to Open First Beijing Branch,...
First opened in Beverly Hills, California in 1978, The Cheesecake Factory has gone on to become an American mall mainstay restaurant for families, high school lovebirds, and anyone looking to pig-out...
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