Beijing boasts less spitting and better queuing
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Less spitting, better queuing and cleaner streets show Beijing has become more "civilized", but the city still has to fine-tune its etiquette to attain Olympic standards, Xinhua news agency said on Friday, citing a new study.
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A four-day partial car ban reduced air pollution in Beijing by up to 20%, Chinese officials say.
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China may have just ushered in the Year of the Rat, but the pesky rodents aren't welcome in its capital. Rats are the latest target of Beijing's efforts to present a sparkling city for the Olympics in August, with the government announcing a campaign to rid all venues of rodents.
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A big jump in the official statistics shows that the Chinese government is finally starting to take the epidemic seriously
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Chinese officials lauded the comfortable majority of the Beijing camp in Hong Kong&#39;s election as a vote for prosperity, but the city&#39;s leading liberal said yesterday China should not doubt the popular desire for democracy.
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Beijing's booming hot spring resorts have been ordered to raise hygiene standards after health inspectors found two-thirds of them failed bacteria tests in the first inspection of its kind, state media said on Wednesday.
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Beijing -- Talk in China has shifted from holding a &#39;green&#39; or &#39;people&#39;s&#39; Olympics to a &#39;frugal Games&#39; as Beijing tightens its purse strings while undertaking massive preparations to play host to the 2008 event.
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China mulls new measures in environmental protection    BEIJING, Feb.
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Beijing traffic officials are drawing up changes to parking fees in the hope of reducing traffic jams.
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The Chinese Red Cross says its survey of 16 Chinese cities with populations over one (m) million found that 75 percent of Beijing residents were in poor health, along with 73 percent of those in Shanghai.
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By Evan Osnos, Chicago Tribune  Jun. 3--BEIJING -- In the office after hours, the Chinese economic miracle didn't feel much like magic.   Spent cups of instant noodles lay in the trash can. Cubicles were empty for the night.
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Blue skies on the last day of the year mean that Beijing has more than met an air pollution target, officials say.
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Preparations for the Beijing 2008 Olympics are well on schedule but pollution is still a concern, the International Olympic Committee said on Wednesday.
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Executions are dropping as China's notorious capital punishment system gets an overhaul in the runup to the Beijing Games
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In Chinese cities, there were 3.18 communal toilets for every 10,000 citizens in 2003, said Zhang Yue, deputy director of urban construction department of Ministry of Construction said Wednesday in Beijing.
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Beijing has successfully managed to  stop light rainfall in experiments aimed at guaranteeing a dry  opening ceremony at August's Olympic Games, officials said on  Wednesday.
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Text of report in English by official Chinese news agency Xinhua (New China News Agency)  Beijing, 14 December: The Chinese national capital will endeavour to make all rivers and lakes within the sixth ring road of the city free of pollution by the year 2010.