This March 21 story was updated on March 22 to add comment from demographer in paragraphs 4-6, details in paragraph 11 BEIJING, March 21 (Reuters) - The death rate in China's capital Beijing surpassed ...

Beijing? Beijing’s mayor was fired, state-run newspapers reported today, a day after he and China’s health minister were sacked from key Communist Party posts amid criticism over the government’s ...

BEIJING, March 30 (UPI) -- Demonstrations in the Chinese capital Sunday showed how far the government trusts its citizens exercising the right to protest as three attempts by Beijing residents to ...

BEIJING -- Beijing Jeep Corp. had its first profitable year in five years in 2003, and expects profit to grow tenfold this year, Beijing Jeep chairman An Qingheng told the China Daily on Saturday. The ...

BEIJING, April 16 -- The World Health Organization said today that China is underreporting cases of the SARS virus and maintains secret military health files that make it impossible to control and ...

It is really strange that the scope of arts of the Beijing Biennale is limited only to painting and sculpture," said Zhan Wang, 41, a Chinese artist. A boy stands before two oil paintings at the newly ...

The new acting mayor of Beijing called the SARS epidemic severe and uncontrolled Wednesday, as he sought to convince a panicky public that the battle against the disease had been effectively joined at ...

BEIJING - China's Olympic organizers are ordering "polluting enterprises" in central Beijing to either renovate or move out of the area in preparation for the 2008 Summer Games, a senior organizing ...

Beijing has started rebuilding Xiaotangshan Hospital, which was used solely for SARS patients in 2003, in a bid to contain the outbreak of the novel coronavirus, a senior official said on Thursday.

Beijing 2003 is a video about the city that the artist lives in, and its people. Participants include assistants Liang Ye and Yang Zhichao, and driver Wu. The piece took 16 days to complete, starting ...