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Property developer acquires land in Beijing at 5.05 bln yuan

Business | Real estate
2009-11-21

DALONG Estate, a Shanghai-listed property developer owned by Beijing's Shunyi district government, had acquired a parcel of residential land in Shunyi for 5.05 billion yuan (US$739 million), the Beijing Times reported...

Court collects China's biggest fine – 125m yuan

National
2009-11-20

A BEIJING court has managed to collect a fine of 125 million yuan (US$18.31 million) - the biggest ever levied by China's securities authority on an individual - from a former securities firm's head. The money,...

Six die in restaurant fire

National
2009-11-19

SIX people were killed and three injured early today after a restaurant went on fire in eastern Shandong Province's Qingyun county, local authorities said. Fire fighters rescued seven people, three of whom suffered...

Dairies battle it out as CCTV ad space auction sets a record

National
2009-11-19

CHINA Central Television auctioned off its 2010 advertising spots for a record 10.96 billion yuan (US$1.61 billion) last night, an 18 percent increase from 2009. The average price of CCTV ad space rose more than...

Hot Property News

Business | Real estate
2009-11-17

LAND values in Shanghai, Beijing and Hangzhou would have the largest potential for growth in the next five years, the nation's top think-tank said in a report yesterday after researching 35 large and medium-sized...

13 victims in China fireworks blast identified as left-behind kids

National
2009-11-15

THIRTEEN victims, including two dead and 11 injured, in a blast in an illegal fireworks workshop in south China, have been identified as left-behind children, local work safety authorities said yesterday. "Left-behind...

A case of the kite fantastic via plastic

National
2009-11-12

PLASTIC bags, the scourge of the environment, are flying high in Beijing, thanks to a retired engineer who is turning the waste into colorful kites. Believed to have been invented in China more than 2,000 years...

Snow snarls air and road traffic in nation's north

National
2009-11-11

HEAVY snow blanketed Beijing and other parts of northern China yesterday, causing air travel delays and highway closures. The snow fell amid lightning and thunder in the capital from late Monday to early yesterday,...

Flights to Beijing cut by heavy weather

Metro | Traffic
2009-11-11

SIX flights between Shanghai and Beijing were canceled yesterday and nearly all the rest were delayed because of a snowstorm around the nation's capital. Across Shanghai, heavy wind and rain jammed traffic and...

Heavy snow, thunder storm hit Beijing

National
2009-11-10

MODERATE snow with thunder storm hit most parts of Beijing since last night. A plummet of 9 degrees Celsius of outdoor temperature to 2.5 degrees Celsius below zero at 6:00 a.m. from the same time on Monday, according...