China has issued a red alert for heat – the highest in its colour-coded alert system – for northern parts of the country after Beijing recorded its hottest-ever June day. Some 185 red alerts ...

Beijing issued a red alert for high temperatures on Friday, the highest in China's alert system, as a scorching heatwave hit the city. Beijing's weather station issued the red alert at 7 a.m ...

For the first time since it instituted a warning system in 2013, Beijing has issued a "red alert" over dangerous levels of air pollution. The state news agency Xinhua reported that the city's air ...

Beijing issued its second-ever red alert for smog and put its emergency response plan into action once again as severe pollution hit China’s capital yesterday. The notice from the capital’s ...

BEIJING (AP) — Beijing was enveloped in eye-watering, throat-irritating smog on Saturday as the second red alert of the month went into effect in the Chinese capital, forcing many cars off the ...

China's capital Beijing issued its second smog red alert of the month on Friday, triggering vehicle restrictions and forcing schools to close. A wave of smog is due to settle over the city of 22.5 ...

In the past, reports Bloomberg Business’s Christina Larson, Beijing has not declared red alerts due to political pressures to keep schools open and China’s public image squeaky clean.

like famed writer and playwright Lao She put it:"Autumn in Beiping (the previous name of Beijing) is heaven". As the temperature continues to drop, tree leaf colors turn golden and red ...