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Glamorous in Green: Catherine de France Offers Ecologically Friendly Hair Care
Catherine de FranceYou would be forgiven for thinking – nay, hoping – that Beijing’s polluted air only has an effect on your lungs. Unfortunately, prolonged exposure to airborne pollutants can leave...
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15 Beijing Highschoolers Busted After Slew of Sanlitun Knifepoint Robberies
Fifteen Beijing teenagers are under detention for robbing Sanlitun strollers at knifepoint and then blowing their earnings at nearby bars and restaurants, Chinese media reports.The kids, ranging in age...
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Taiwanese Biandang Goes Back to School at Topwin Center, Little Ming Taiwan...
Taiwan is famous for its pretty landscapes as well as its delicious local street foods, even the mealboxes (biandang) on its trains. Opening last summer, Little Ming Taiwan Railway Mealbox is located...
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What's Happening: The Most Important Dates of Jan/Feb 2017
Below you'll find some of the most important dates and exciting events in the coming two months. Remember that you can find a comprehensive list of all the city's best happenings in our Events section...
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EAT: Caravan Social Sundays, Burns Night 2017, Gail's Pop Down Party
Caravan is replacing their unplugged weekday social hour and with a whole day of discounts, dubbed Social Sundays. Due to people finding it hard to make it to Caravn straight after work, often having...
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See Ya Cuju: Say Hello to Gulu Bazz, Badr Benjelloun's New Vermouth Bar
Many a Beijing rummy drowned their sorrows at Cuju this past fall after owner Badr Benjelloun announced his plans to shut down and entirely revamp the Beixinqiao bar, which was equally popular among...
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It's a Bar! It's a Cinema! It's a Restaurant! Cinker Pictures Brings Swank to...
Cinker Pictures is putting a new spin on the near century-old practice of dinner and a movie.The newly announced North Taikoo Li venue houses a cinema, restaurant and bar, meaning you can catch a...
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Beijing's Bars and Restaurants Welcome Back Patrons After an...
Beijing’s restaurateurs are breathing sighs of relief in every sense of the word: Last week's record-breaking smog levels not only affected the quality of the air that those laoban were inhaling, but...
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Crackalakin: Fireworks Distribution for CNY Starts Jan 12, Sales Jan 22
This year there will be a further reduction in firework sales in Beijing ahead of the upcoming Spring Festival. As much as this may seem a disappointment, you'll be grateful when, on the eve of the new...
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Less Time in Pet Purgatory: China Mulls Scrapping Quarantine Period
Outgoing tourists and families who take along their cuddly pets during the holidays can hang on to a bit of hope: a change in regulations can cut the mandatory isolation period for “low-risk” animals...
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Is This Month the Best Ever for Hollywood Movies in China?
January is sizing up to be quite a unique month for Hollywood films in China with five of six new releases being critical, if not box office successes overseas.Normally the Chinese market serves as a...
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Should You Exercise When the AQI is High? Three Fitness Experts Weigh In
BlueairIt’s just a couple of weeks into 2017, and many of us are still in the midst of trying to fulfill recently made New Year’s resolutions to get out and exercise more. Yet on days when the AQI is...
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Cutesy Selfies Can Lead to Identity Theft, Police Warn
Whether accompanied by a pout or a smile, photographs of Chinese people will just about always include the sight of the "V" hand gesture. And yet, this commonplace Chinese habit is said to contain a...
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Victim Live Streams Her Story of Plane Molestation, Beijing Tech Boss...
The woman involved in the sexual molestation case that landed a Beijing high-tech executive in jail for five days says she's just a student seeking justice and not an online celebrity using the...
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Rising Malian Guitarist Vieux Farka Touré to Play Yugong Yishan, Jan 15
He’s been called the Hendrix of the Sahara, and for good reason.Over the course of seven albums, Malian guitarist and songwriter Vieux Farka Touré has dazzled world music fans with his “ethereal,...
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Houhai Undergoing Reconstruction; Several Old Beijing Restaurants Forced to...
Nanluogu Xiang. Guijie. Baochao Hutong. And now, next in the line of popular areas facing crackdown by the government all in the spirit of "cleaning up" is the popular entertainment and tourist...
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Chinese Authorities Request Cap on App's AQI Readings, and That...
The operators of a popular pollution monitoring app installed on tens of thousands of phones in Beijing have been told to cap its highest AQI reading at 500, Sixth Tonereported today.The article said...
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China Clears Golden Globe Winner ‘La La Land’ for Release
This post comes courtesy of our content partners at China Film Insider.Fresh off its Golden Globes success, Damien Chazelle’s modern musical La La Land got some more good news with the announcement the...
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Fast Food Watch: Chicken and Shrimp Burgers From McDonald's, Just in Time for...
I can see the television commercials now: the young man walking through the snow with a heavy bag over his shoulder. In the distance, he sees the lights of the house where he grew up, in the village...
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Beijing Opera Remixed: Opera and EDM Stars Come Together for a Fresh Take on...
My first time experiencing Beijing opera was when I first spent an extended amount of time here living with a host family. Trying to understand what my host family was saying (with a few years of high...
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