Beijing aims to stamp out "Chinglish" signs
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Beijing authorities hope to eradicate "Chinglish" from bilingual signs in the Chinese capital in time for the 2008 Olympic Games, state media reported on Friday.
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While celebrating unprecedented success at the Athens Olympics, China has its sights firmly set on the Beijing Games in four years when they hope to present the country&#39;s new face to the world.
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Tests are carried out to see how the net's addressing system  copes with international character sets such as Chinese and Arabic.
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Tiananmen Square was decorated with Chinese and Russian flags Thursday morning as president Vladimir Putin arrived in Beijing for a three-day visit.
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China promised on Tuesday to get tougher on copyright and patent violations, a long-awaited move that may ease U.S. concerns over rampant piracy believed to cost foreign businesses billions of dollars every year.
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The London Stock Exchange opens an office in Beijing, as it aims to attract listings by Chinese companies.
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China is to crack down on "blindly" using foreign architects to design major public buildings as part of a drive to stifle costly architectural extravanganzas, state media reported on Saturday.
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Beijing will deploy about 80 sniffer dogs to patrol the subway system to sniff out flammable products such as fireworks before the Chinese New Year next month, state media reported on Wednesday.
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China plans to enact an anti-secession law, the government said Friday, in a move apparently aimed at promoting Beijing's campaign to pressure Taiwan into uniting with the mainland.
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China has gently urged Burma's military rulers to ease the strife that has seen tens of thousands take to the streets in protest, diplomats said Tuesday, even as Beijing said publicly it would stick to a hands-off approach toward its neighbor.
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With 6,000 characters to memorize, Westerners shudder at the idea reading even the most basic street signs and instructions in Chinese.
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By Amy Stone  Tree-lined Dongsi Batiao hardly looks like the site of a smoldering urban struggle. But during the last two months, the "Eighth Hutong in the Dongsi area" inside central Beijing's old inner city has not been so quiet.
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China's security chief tells officials to pay more attention to people's grievances, in the wake of increasing protests.
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Some Flushing residents are studying Mandarin to be able to communicate with their new neighbors.
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Letters And rare praise for Chinese Govt's @itude
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The 11th of every month in Beijing is to be "voluntarily wait in line" day as the city attempts to eradicate queue-jumping before next year's Olympics, a city official said on Wednesday.
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Beijing will install about 1,000 condom  vending machines in hotels, bars, universities and on  construction sites in the Chinese capital this month to fight  the spread of AIDS, the official Xinhua news agency said on  Sunday.