For the world’s Olympians, Beijing’s air is a performance issue. For the city’s estimated 12 million residents, pollution is an inescapable health and quality-of-life issue.

Down a short alley in the sprawling, tourist-mobbed 798 art district in Beijing is a tiny shop that serves as one of the centers of China’s small but thriving experimental music scene.

China trying to allay international concerns before Summer Olympic …

Beijing-based Foreign Correspondents Club of China says it had recorded more than 180 incidents of interference, including beatings and intimidation, in 2007

… this past month…partly it’s because accessing the blog during my December trip to Beijing was more than challenging (slow Internet connections, etc.), and partly because I’ve been invited to blog on the Beijing Olympics for Sports Illustrated’s FanNation site. The Beijing Olympics Blog was launched in [...]

… against Google's China subsidiary was dismissed on December 26 by Haidian People's Court in Beijing, reports Chinacourt.org. Beijing Gu Ge Technology sued Google China for trademark violation, claiming Google's Chinese name, "Gu Ge", is the same as the name of Beijing...

… Central TV (CCTV) plans to start trial broadcasting of terrestrial digital TV (DTV) service in Beijing before the end of 2007, reports eNet quoting a source at CCTV. According to the report, CCTV will offer one high definition channel and four other channels during the trial.

BEIJING: China and Japan pledged on Friday to build on their rapidly warming ties, as Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda met the Chinese leadership, but a dispute over maritime gas fields remained unresolved.

Beijing’s first waste processing facility that is specially designed for recycling “green waste” has been unveiled in the city’s Fengtai District.

… to Chinese assets, without elaborating. Kazatomprom said on Oct. 12 it signed agreements in Beijing with the China Guangdong Nuclear Power Group and the China National Nuclear Corporation, China’s largest producers of...

… Jean-Claude Juncker, and the European Central Bank president, Jean-Claude Trichet, arrives in Beijing to make the case for exchange-rate revaluation.

… would be heading to China in 2008. But four months later, she has not qualified to compete in Beijing.

China to provide information about thousands of foreign reporters who will cover Beijing Olympics

AFP - Chinese urban fixed asset investment gained pace in the first 10 months of 2007, official data showed Friday, capping a week of strong data that has raised expectations of an interest rate hike. …

BRC Beijing: Bars, Restaurants, and Clubs

Meanwhile, Beijing's World Trade Organization representative says China abides by WTO rules that Western nations have violated

Total revenue for Beijing-based online game company Perfect World (Nasdaq: PWRD) increased more than 14-fold from its 2006 third quarter earnings and 65 percent quarter-on-quarter to reach US$28.5 million in the third quarter of 2007, according to the company's earnings report released on November 8....

… to bring its global market share up to 30 percent in 2008, reports Sina quoting Mozilla China (Beijing Mouzhi Network Technologies Ltd.) chairman and CEO Gong Li. Gong said...

Pentagon officials said Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates planned to press for a more open dialogue on China’s military while discussing ways to build trust and …

… incomes of about US$2,600 and US$1,200 per month, respectively. Shanghai, Shenzhen, Wenzhou and Beijing were in the second tier, with average incomes between US$700 and US$750. Lhasa, the capital city of Tibet, is at the bottom of the list, with white-collar workers earning around US$127 a month.

AFP - US Defence Secretary Robert Gates on Tuesday assured China's President Hu Jintao that the US government is "categorically" opposed to any moves by Taiwan towards independence.

… for help in curbing Iran's nuclear program,
arguing that a stable Gulf was in the interests of Beijing's
energy security.

… bated breath was misplaced - the mission so far has proceeded with clockwork precision. The Beijing Aerospace Control Center issued the brakes command at 11:15am when Chang'e 1 was about 300 kilometers from the moon. The craft decelerated and entered orbit just 22 minutes later.

… sovereignty and territorial integrity at all costs, Defense Minister Cao Gangchuan said in Beijing yesterday.

YOU'VE climbed the Great Wall of China, now Beijing wants you to "fly" the Great Wheel of China.

… Zhaoyu, spokesman for the National Space Administration, said at a news conference yesterday in Beijing.

… to work together to steer Iran away from its nuclear ambitions in talks that Chinese President Hu Jintao described Tuesday as "very candid and friendly."

US Defence Secretary Robert Gates met Tuesday with China's President Hu Jintao amid US hopes of making a case for stronger economic sanctions against Iran.

Regulators have rejected the bid to buy 10% of Fuyao Glass Group after a long approval process that has seen the glass maker's stock rise three times the negotiated …

… Party Congress closed on October 21 after selecting the new central committee of the party. Hu Jintao, Wu Bangguo, Wen Jiabao, Jia Qinglin, Li Changchun, Xi Jinping, Li Keqiang, He Guoqiang and Zhou Yongkang were selected to be the members of the standing committee of politburo in the first plenary meeting of the central committee held on October 22.