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Beicology: As Beijingers Hack and Wheeze, Authorities Sputter and Stall with...
Beijingers feeling stifled and and distraught by this week's oppressive red alert level smog might be all the more upset by the news that local coal mines are set to be shuttered by 2021. Those...
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Domain Revamps Menu With More Comfort Food, Including a Lasagna to Die For
East's latest addition, chef Tim Hunt who came back to Beijing and took over from Rob Cunningham this summer, has been busy throughout the hotel's numerous F&B outlets. His latest changes can be...
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A Closer Look at the Bar and Club Awards: Best Place to Find a Date
With the "A Closer Look" series, we raise our glasses in recognition of the Beijinger 2016 Bar & Club Award winners, before giving a toast (in text form, of course) about why they were selected by...
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2016 Year in Review: The Year in Tech News and Tips
2016. What a time to be alive, eh? You can achieve pretty much anything (except proactivity) with a few jabs at your phone screen. This may be true the world over, but especially in Beijing, which is...
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Houhai Next to Get the Nanluogu Xiang Treatment?
As the bandages come off Nanluogu Xiang's recent face lift, authorities may have already set their sights yet another tourist hot spot due for an upgrade: the shores of Shichahai/Houhai.Beijing Times...
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The Week in Health and Fitness: A Few Resolutions for 2017
This Week in Health and Fitness brings you the best fitness and health goings on around town so you can live your #bestlife.With just over a week left of 2016, and as I finish yet another indulgent...
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Winter Warmer Recipe: How to Make Your Own Chai Tea
There are a lot of things I miss here in Beijing, decent skincare, “normal” toilets, and my friends and family of course. But MOST of all I miss my home cuisine, and the ingredients that are easy to...
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Wokipedia: S is for ... Shaqima, Sea Cucumber, Shuizhu, and Suanlatang
Wokipedia is a regular magazine column in which we introduce aspects of Chinese gastronomy, one letter at a time. This issue, 'S' gets the treatment.… shaqima 沙琪玛Think of shaqima (often rendered in...
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Beijing Owes a Special Debt to the Late, Great George Michael
The sudden passing of George Michael in the UK this morning has resonated deeply with fans in China, as the iconic pop star was quite literally the first foreign pop act to perform in China – at...
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Missed Christmas Dinner? These Restaurants Are Still Serving Festive Meals
If for some reason you didn't manage to get your turkey fix over the weekend, never fear: a host of restaurants are still serving up festive menus (some with turkey, some without) in the week leading...
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Events Watch: Beijing's Best Weekday Events That Won't Leave You Hungover,...
Our Events Watch series aims to highlight events that aren't focused on alcohol and drinking, but instead take a more educational or productive approach. Events include comedy, talks, networking...
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2016 Year in Review: Official Cuisine at Beijing's Provincial Government...
Last year I started on a mission to try all of Beijing's provincial government restaurants, not just the much-loved Sichuan provincial government restaurant out near Jianguomen. Going through the...
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N.B. Box Brings Healthy Eats to Unlikely Wangjing Locale
Good Western eats are hard to come by in Wangjing. Sure, a few decent restaurants have popped up around the rapidly developing area's resident Soho complex, such as the British themed L.Bridge cafe,...
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What to Do in Beijing Next Weekend That Isn't a New Year's Eve Party
Are you one of those people that just can't stand the pressure surrounding New Year's Eve and the neverending options vying for your attention? Fret not, if you don't want to celebrate the coming of...
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Mandarin Monday: The Key to Improving Your Putonghua May Already Be In Your...
While we waste time thumbing through selfies and memes on our moments, or visiting clickbait sites or staring at neverending cat gifs, we could instead be improving our Mandarin in fun, simple...
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David Guetta Giveaway: Five Pairs of Tickets Up For Grabs to See French DJ's...
It’s New Year’s day, you’ve lost your phone, there’s something strange in your bed, your tongue has been replaced with a 5,000-year-old mummified sea cucumber, and you swear to god you’re never going...
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2016 Year in Review: The Best of Online Shopping
Hello, my name is Robynne and I'm a shopaholic. More specifically, an online shopaholic. Since arriving in Beijing nearly six years ago, I have come to depend almost exclusively on Taobao, Tmall, JD...
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Beicology: Capital Makes Smoggy Old Cars Come to a Screeching Halt
As part of its continuing efforts to clear Beijing's notoriously smoggy skies, the capital's environmental protection bureau has deemed old, exhaust sputtering cars to not be road worthy during the...
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Beijing's Chaoyang Park and Wangjing East Subway Stations to Open Before...
Although the end of 2016 is less that a week away, local transportation officials have announced some major subway developments set to take place before the New Year is rung in.First up: the openings...
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Fare Thee Well: 12 Beijing Bars and Restaurants We'll Miss That Left Us in 2016
What do Two Guys and a Pie, Modo Urban Deli, Tafelspitz, Rumi, Sweet Tooth, The Smokeyard, and Union Bar and Grille have in common? Yup, you guessed it, they all called it quits in 2016. Below we bid...
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