Beijing

British Journalist Detained By Beijing Police After Covering Free Tibet Protest
Independent Television News journalist held after attempting to cover protest close to main Olympic zone

Mystery of the Bowdlerised Blog As Beijing Frees Four After Tibet Protest
Family of Briton held for unfurling Tibetan flags puzzled by new additions to travel account written in 2005

Beijing Residents Stage Protest Over Olympic Eviction
Demonstrators led away by women claiming to represent neighborhood committee

Olympics: On Your Marks! Get Set! Go ...
My first impressions of Beijing are of a city as ready as it ever will be to host the Olympic Games, reports Paul Kelso

Beijing Plans Testing on Military Scale But Cheats Will Still Prosper
Paul Kelso looks at the role of organized crime in trafficking sports drugs in the final part of our series

Beijing Goes for Green With Olympic Clean-up
Olympic organizers cut output at vast steel plant and restrict motorists to driving on alternate days

First City of the Future
Isabel Hilton reports on the explosion of capitalism that is transforming China's ancient capital

Beijing Open to Foreign Aid and Scrutiny in Wake of Tragedy
Officials say earthquake could accelerate liberalization by China's government, as censorship of internet is lifted

Quiet Sexual Revolution Forces Beijing to Admit Dangers of Aids
Meetings and more funds - but patients seeking talks with premier are detained

Beijing Bans Construction Projects to Improve Air Quality During the Olympics
Beijing's Municipal Environmental Protection Bureau spends £8.6bn to tackle smog

False Start for Beijing's Olympic Anti-smoking Law
Chinese smokers can continue to enjoy lighting up in bars and restaurants, after officials in the capital backtracked on a ban ahead of this summer's Olympics

Boycotting The Beijing Olympics - A Good Idea
I just read a very interesting article by Chinese actress and director, Joan Chen in The Washington Post, where she says that the current clamor for boycotting the Beijing Olympics by some people and politicians in the West is likely to prove counter productive.

London May Forgo 2012 Procession After Global Protests Against Beijing Games
Olympic Games: The IOC is considering an end to plans for a torch relay before the London 2012 Games after recent protests

London May Forgo 2012 Procession After Global Protests Against Beijing Games
International Olympic Committee revising plans for international torch relay in advance of 2012 games amid concern over damage to Olympic brand

IOC Chief Speaks Out Over Tibet As Protests Continue
Head of the IOC says he is 'very concerned' about unrest in Tibet, but plays down talk of boycott of Beijing games

Human Rights Groups Pledge to Cast a Shadow As the Torch Arrives in London
Final preparations for the London leg of the Beijing torch relay overshadowed by threat of protests

Beijing Court Jails Dissident on Subversion Charges
One of China's best-known dissidents is jailed for three and a half years on subversion charges

Brown Should Not Rule Out a Beijing Boycott
Leader: If China wants to be fully accepted as a major actor in the international community, then it has to behave as a responsible stakeholder in its actions

I'm Proud to Carry the Olympic Torch Despite Tibet
Duncan Mackay: Boycotting the Olympics would penalize athletes, not the politicians who have kow-towed to Beijing

Merkel Says She Will Not Attend Opening of Beijing Olympics
Pressure builds for concerted western protests to China over the crackdown in Tibet

State Tv Switches to Non-stop Footage of Chinese Under Attack
Beijing launches sustained publicity offensive on Tibetan protests, also blocking foreign broadcasters and websites

Beijing's Hammer Blows
Leader: Beijing's authoritarian instinct is to throw out foreign journalists, and bring the hammer down on Tibet. It should do neither

Beijing Locks Down Lhasa As Crisis Grows
At least 10, possibly dozens, killed as violence spreads and international protests mount

Beijing Sends in Tanks As Crisis Grows
Protesters claim more than 100 killed as violence spreads amidst mounting international protests

New Wave
Beijing was a rock-free zone until the mid-1980s. But now, finds Alexis Petridis, local bands are winning a cult following - with the help of Pac-Man masks, corporate cash and a hatred of 'Canto-pop'

Beijing Media Ban on Actor
Tang Wei, female lead in Lust, Caution, pronounced too hot for the mainland media

Land of 20 Million Pianists
With the Olympics looming and its economy booming, this is China's year. Kicking off a week-long exploration of its arts, Stephen Moss travels to Beijing to immerse himself in classical music

'I Am a Messenger'
Interview: When Steven Spielberg withdrew from advising the Beijing Olympics Mia Farrow took the credit. Now she's setting her sights on Gordon Brown

Provinces Pay Price for Green Olympics
Millions of gallons of water are being diverted to Beijing from areas hit by drought

Days of the One-child Rule Could Be Numbered As Beijing Considers Change
Experts call for uniform two children a couple policy as old law piles up problems

Protests Over Beijing Games 'will Grow'
This is just the beginning, activist warns, as China tries to limit damage

Chinese Authorities Put Squeeze on Spongebob Squarepants
Beijing authorities extend broadcast restrictions on foreign-made cartoons

Chinese Authorities Stamp Down on Spongebob Squarepants
Beijing authorities extend broadcast restrictions on foreign-made cartoons

Protests Over Beijing Games 'will Grow'
This is just the beginning, activist warns, as China tries to limit damage

Full-scale Replica of Imperial Palace Planned for 'chinese Hollywood'
Communists back scheme to recreate Old Summer Palace in Beijing but historians unhappy

Officials to Review Gag on Olympic Athletes
The British Olympic Association to review athletes' contract for Beijing Games following concerns over free speech

Behind the Great Firewall
210 million Chinese have web access and any day now China will have more users than the US. But instead of spreading freedom, the net has been tamed by Beijing's iron grip

Europe Should Put a Brake on Beijing's Excesses
Leader: Beijing feels secure in the belief that domestic repression bears no relationship to successful global economic integration

Chinese Newspaper Fires Early Warning at Olympic Protesters
Any attempt to use the Beijing Olympics to discredit China or force it to change policy is doomed to failure, the leading Communist party newspaper insisted in a commentary piece yesterday

Beijing Announces Pre-olympic Social Clean Up
Beijing's Olympic chief orders social cleansing operation to clear city of beggars, hawkers and prostitutes

Beijing to Evict 'undesirables' Before Games
Beijing's Olympic chief has ordered a 'social cleansing' operation to clear the city of beggars, hawkers and prostitutes

Chinese Celebrities Face One-child Crackdown
Their wealth and fame buy apparently endless privilege - but celebrities' perks do not extend to having larger families, Beijing authorities have warned.

Beijing Hotels: The unsurpassed
Beijing is the state capital of China and prides itself on many important historical sites and government organization. A very friendly tourist destination, Beijing is full of attractions and surprises. From verdant parks, cozy restaurants to thumping discotheques you will find it all here.

When Beijing Goes Buying
Leader: Western institutions are not getting their cash from ministers in London or Washington, but from functionaries in Beijing

Panjiayuan, Beijing's Largest Antiques Market
Inside planet Panjiayuan, Beijing’s massive antiques fair.

Gun-toting Ballerinas Launch Beijing Arts Complex
Ballerinas with machine guns will grace the stage for the first performance at China National Grand Theater, when the spectacular arts complex opens its doors on Tuesday.

Beijing Grounds Drivers in Bid to Clear the Air
Beijing's notoriously clogged-up roads will get a stiff dose of decongestant today when a third of the city's vehicles will be ordered off the streets during a test run for next year's Olympic Games.

Journalists Fired Over Tiananmen Square Tribute
Deputy editor sacked as censors miss tiny ad - Clerk failed to recognize date of Beijing massacre

Beijing Blames Pollutants for Rise in Killer Cancers
Foul air, filthy water and contaminated soil have led to a surge of tumors in China, where cancer is the main cause of death, the state media reported yesterday.

Why Tiananmen Square Could Go From Red to Green
Renowned architect proposes turning Beijing centrepiece into a forest.

Property Boom Threatens Old Beijing
Traditional home sells for £7.1m in part of the city once shunned by rich.

'Fried Crap' Flushed Away in Beijing Clean-up
After an anti-spitting campaign and a toilet modernisation drive, the Olympic clean-up of Beijing is spreading to the city's badly translated English signs and menus, which is likely to mean fewer perplexed visitors but less fun for expatriates.

Beijing Joins Poison Inquiry As Us Hit By Cat and Dog Deaths
It has dominated the US media for weeks, is to be investigated by Congress, and yesterday it became an international incident: it is the American pet poisoning row.

Travel in China - Free Travel Guide of Beijing by Flashbooking aparments online reservation
For the Beijing (China) travel guide Flashbooking staff efforts concentrate on making it simple to read and with a nice format.

Emin's Bed Stays Made, But Beijing Finally Embraces Modern British Art
Beijing show coincides with exhibition of Chinese contemporary artists in UK.

Asian Arms Race Fear As Beijing Raises Spending
China 18% rise in military outlay is largest since 1995 - World's largest army to undergo modernisation

Beijing Tesco Draws Animal Activists' Ire
Tesco today opened its first own-brand store in China and drew renewed criticism from animal welfare groups over its decision to sell live turtles and frogs.

How to enjoy a Beijing-Xian-Guilin-Shanghai 9 day tour.
Are you looking forward to that holiday you will be spending in China? Spending 9 days as a tourist in China can be one of the most exciting adventure and experience you can ever have.

Beijing Plans to Overtake London With World's Longest Subway
The Beijing metro could overtake the London underground as the world's longest subway network by 2020, under a proposal submitted by urban planners.

China on the Go! Let’s take a tour to Beijing
As China brags of many cities and towns filled with history of ancient civilizations, you probably would be wondering where to go in China. Well, it should not be a very hard decision to make

Beijing Pledges Aid Billions to Woo Africa
China launched its grand-scale efforts to gain access to Africa's oil and markets yesterday, pledging billions of pounds in aid and loans as dozens of African leaders attended a summit in Beijing.

The Savannah Comes to Beijing As China Hosts Its New Empire
City covered in giant posters as billions of dollars are spent on projects to win friends at summit - with no questions asked.

Beijing's Race for Africa
World Briefing: China will steal a march in the new race for Africa when it hosts an ambitious trade, investment and aid summit in Beijing this week for leaders of 48 African countries. By Simon Tisdall

Chinese Chukkas: One Man's Mission to Attract New Elite to the Sport of Kings
Polo, the sporting symbol of privilege, arrives as Beijing tycoon taps into rising wealth and leisure time.

'Some Villagers Are Angry, But Most Are Just Afraid'
Despite Beijing's promises of electoral accountability, rural voters are facing violent intimidation, writes Jonathan Watts

Dust Storms and Pollution Force Beijing to Go Greener
The Chinese prime minister has ordered the country's vast bureaucracy to improve environmental protection, in a shift away from the government's 25-year policy of economic growth at all costs.

Beijing to Ban Drivers for Blue Sky Olympics
Olympic Games: Building sites and factories to close for two months · Attempt to clear pollution haze that covers city

War of the Words
The conflict between the world's biggest censor and an array of journalists, bloggers and dissidents has just taken a remarkable turn, explains Jonathan Watts in Beijing.

Beijing Journalists Stage Walkout
About 100 reporters at a Chinese newspaper have walked out in protest after the sudden sacking of their editor. By Chris Tryhorn.

Beijing Takes a Back Seat
China's transformation from victim to predator could explain its low-key approach to the WTO talks, says Jonathan Watts.

US Uneasy As Beijing Develops a Strategic String of Pearls
A high-stakes geopolitical game is sweeping Asia. Triggered by a roaring economy, propelled by swelling confidence and funded by chequebook diplomacy, Beijing is projecting its new might across the continent - and setting off alarm bells from Washington to Tokyo.

European Luxury Brands Challenge Chinese Pirates
Burberry, Chanel, Gucci, Prada and Louis Vuitton have fired a legal broadside against Beijing's Silk Market, the reputed flagship of trademark piracy in China, according to local media.

Beijing: The Capital Of The People's Republic Of China
Beijing is one of the biggest cities in China, and has a total population of more than 13.83 million. Beijing is the capital of the People’s Republic of China.

Chinese Relent and Revalue the Yuan
Beijing bows to pressure from Washington and drops peg to the dollar but Asian exporters may reap greater benefit than the US.

Beijing Searches for Love Among the Park Benches - With a Little Help From Mum
More independence in young brings out matchmaking mothers.

Chinese Commuters Told: Get Off Your Bikes
Capital letters: Bicycles in Beijing are under threat as their habitat - the city's network of bicycle lanes - shrinks, and predators - in the form of cars - increase at the rate of 20,000 a month.

Tiananmen Inmates Linked to Eu Arms Embargo
China should release those of its citizens imprisoned since the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown if it wants the European Union to end its arms ban, a senior EU delegation told their hosts in Beijing yesterday.

Old Enemies, New Allies
The descendants of Communist party's former nemesis are making their first ever high-level visit to Beijing. What's going on, asks Jonathan Watts.

Jonathan Watts@beijing
Email: If you were to map an emotional topography of China, the valleys of grief and resentment would run deepest in the rubbish-strewn alleys of Fengtai, near South Beijing railway station.

Beijing Where Cabbies Are Cheery But Skint
Jonathan Watts: On weeks like this, when the wind is not only bitingly cold but filled with grit from the Gobi desert, there is no more welcome sight in Beijing than one of the city's puffing, wheezing, smoky red taxis.

Capital Letters: Jonathan Watts in Beijing
The demise of Beijing's two most notorious tourist traps is likely to induce at least a twinge of nostalgia in any foreigner who has visited the city in the past 10 years, writes Jonathan Watts in Beijing.

Beijing Allows Low-key Farewell to Zhao
End to standoff over service for Tiananmen sympathiser. Days of wrangling over the politically sensitive memorial service for the former Chinese premier Zhao Ziyang, who died 11 days ago, ended yesterday when the government approved a low-key ceremony.

Huge Mall Banks on Beijing's New Rich
In a world that boasts many temples of consumerism, this may be the biggest of them all.

Sub Flees After Navy Chase
The fragile relations between Tokyo and Beijing were further weakened yesterday when a suspected Chinese nuclear submarine was chased out of Japanese territorial waters.

Toxic Smog Shrouds Beijing
Pollution forces cancellation of air show for Chirac.

Beijing Bunny Bar Fails to Impress
A former Maoist radical has launched Beijing's first bunny bar, but China's playboy revolution is already foundering. In the 70s CK Yu, the son of a Taiwanese general, was running a bookshop in California selling the works of Mao Zedong. But in a sign of how quickly values are...

Capital Letters
Bicycling barber prepares to move with Olympian times. Jonathan Watts in Beijing reports.

Human rights shadow over Beijing games
At the closing ceremony of the Athens Olympic games last night Jacques Rogge, president of the International Olympic Committee, issued the traditional invitation to "the youth of the world" to reassemble in four years' time.

'Butcher of Beijing' Tries to Clear His Name
Deng backed Tiananmen crackdown, writes Li Peng. Li Peng, the former Chinese prime minister dubbed the "Butcher of Beijing" for his role in the Tiananmen Square crackdown, is trying to clear his name with a new essay that shifts some of the blame on to his political master.

Capital Letters: Beijing
The exotic food vendors of Beijing's Xiaochi Jie (Snack Street) are made for games of culinary dare.

Press Review: The View From Beijing
Viruses spread through the Chinese press. Sick. Sick. Sick. Take a glance at almost any Chinese newspaper since the start of the year and you would think the world's most populous nation is also the most vulnerable to nasty diseases - or is at least suffering from terrible hypochondria.

Press Review: The View From Beijing
These are disorientating, exhilarating, worrying times for Chinese newspapers and magazines, buffeted by the sharply changing winds of the government's media policy as they try to keep pace with one of the world's fastest changing nations.

Beijing Lightens Up On Pet Pooches
The Beijing Municipal People’s Congress (BMPC) approved a new law September 5 which lowers the registration fee for dogs. The BMPC is the capital city’s top legislative body.

Sow Flowers, Stop Spitting - and Score High on Beijing's Morality Index
The dark forces of karaoke and spitting are set to do battle with the spiritually enriching power of books and flowers under a novel scheme to stiffen the moral fibre of Beijing's citizens. Authorities in the Chinese capital unveiled plans yesterday for a "morality-evaluation index" that...

Beijing Theatres and Bars Closed in Crackdown
Beijing yesterday imposed sweeping measures to close down theatres, discos, internet bars and other places of entertainment as the city's total of Sars cases climbed higher.

Beijing's 'hell of Forced Isolation'
WHO says compulsory quarantine is 'victimising' thousands.

Beijing Tries to Cut Off the Faithful's State Handouts
China is trying once more to smash the remains of the "iron rice-bowl" system, which once guaranteed all citizens jobs for life, by chipping away the perks still given to millions of communist cadres and civil servants. Legislation is being planned to reform the system drastically,...

Boys Jailed for Deadly Fire at Illegal Internet Cafe
A Beijing court has sentenced two boys to life in prison for starting a fire in an underground internet cafe in the Chinese capital that killed 25 people.

Beijing Cybercafe Fire Kills 24 Students
A fire killed 24 young Chinese in Beijing yesterday in an illegal internet cafe which had a locked door and windows blocked by iron bars. The Blue Hyperspeed cafe in the Haidian university district burst into flames in the early morning. "They were all young students," a local...

Beijing Arrests 20 in Tiananmen Inquiry
China has detained more than 20 people suspected of smuggling abroad secret documents about the 1989 Beijing massacre, according to reports in the Hong Kong press on the eve of the 13th anniversary of the killings. Zhang Liang, who compiled a collection of Tiananmen papers published...

Beijing Rounds Up Muslims
The Chinese authorities have detained thousands of Muslims in Xinjiang region in the north-west since September 11, claiming that local separatists are linked to Osama bin Laden and al-Qaida, Amnesty International said yesterday. Some are reported to have been executed immediately after...

John Gittings in Beijing
It is always worth looking in at the Beijing art gallery, near the Forbidden City, for a glimpse of China's changing values.

Jesus gets Beijing's blessing
Chinese Christians celebrated Christmas this year in a mood of renewed hope, as Beijing hints at greater religious tolerance. With more than 10m Catholics and Protestants in recognised churches - and millions more who worship unofficially - there is a more open mind to what religion can offer...