Beijing has dramatically loosened its tourist visa policies, partly to boost the economy and partly to show it’s fun and ...

Beijing workers remodelling the city after knocking down small shops, restaurants, bars You can't get too attached to things in Beijing. Your favourite restaurant, cafe, bar, park bench, row of ...

BEIJING (Reuters) - The Chinese government has formally banned reporting without permission on a popular Beijing shopping street where police assaulted some foreign journalists who gathered there ...

Beijing has been working on Wall Street for a long time. When Prime Minister Zhu Rongji visited the United States in 1999, he holed up in New York’s Astoria Hotel and spent days in back-to-back ...

China appears to be tightening restrictions on international media again, barring foreign journalists from working near a popular Shanghai park and along a major Beijing shopping street after ...

Chinese President Xi Jinping has opposed the lifting of curbs on street vendors in Beijing, signaling splits within government over a policy shift aimed at tackling rising unemployment.

China cracks down on dissent, detains "Beijing Five" 02:15 An anti-discrimination group working with the activists, the Beijing Yirenping Center, said in a statement that continuing to treat the ...

On Valentine's Day (February 14), 2009 two lesbians and two gay men held wedding photo sessions on Qianmen Avenue, one of Beijing's most famous shopping streets, in an effort to win support for ...

Beijing's unique street life under constant siege. Published. 6 May 2017. Share. close panel. ... It was knocked down to make way for a huge modern shopping development in Beijing's Sanlitun area ...

When China was in the midst of a pandemic-induced economic slump in 2020, then Premier Li Keqiang touted the idea of creating jobs by encouraging street vendors to set up shop across the country.