2012-04-01Ignace Lecleir has worked in some of the world's finest dining rooms and knows a special venue when he sees one. So when the Belgian restaurateur was offered the chance to open a gourmet restaurant in a 600-year-old Beijing temple compound - a place once used as a place of study by tutors to the Chinese emperor - he jumped at the chance.
2012-03-25Editor's note: Harold McGee, the pioneering explorer of the science of food, whose seminal On Food and Cooking back in 1984 changed the way chefs and restaurants approach cooking, had a breakneck tour of restaurants in Beijing earlier this month. The New York Times writer, whose column The Curious Cook examines and debunks myths of the kitchen, took some time after his lecture at the Capital M Literary Festival to talk to China Daily reporter B.W. Liou about his experiences in China's capital.
2012-03-20The capital will boost employment in the renewable energy sector with policy and financial support to tackle job pressures and improve the city's environment, according to the labor authority.
2012-03-17When Gao Jun moved to Beijing to attend university in 2006, one of the first things he bought was a secondhand bike.
2012-03-15On March 7, 2012, Dai Yulin, secretary of the Dandong municipal Party committee and Shi Guang, mayor of Dandong met with business representatives attending the Dandong (Beijing) entrepreneur investment fair.
2012-03-15After visiting me recently in Beijing, my high school friend sent me an e-mail from his hotel room in Shanghai.
2012-02-15Local government in Beijing's Changping district has signed contracts with European organizations and companies to set up a strawberry research institute.
2012-02-15Accenture, a US-based management consulting, technology services and outsourcing company, opened a new R&D lab in Beijing today.
2012-02-12When former German national gymnast Ines Brunn considered leaving her job to run a bicycle shop, a friend could not believe it. "Who wants to see an old woman do tricks on a bicycle?" her friend asked. But not only did Brunn leave her high-paying job in a major telecommunications company to do just that, she also chose to locate her bike shop in Beijing.
2012-02-10German gives up high-paying job to ride on passion.
2012-02-03French photographer uses Traditional doors to capture the spirit of the capital.
2012-01-26Volodymyr Baran wasn't supposed to be a violinist. "I didn't really come from a family of musicians," says the 34-year-old Ukrainian now based in Beijing.
2012-01-21BEIJING / SHANGHAI - China is luring more foreign job seekers as its economy shines amid the global slowdown.
2012-01-21BEIJING - For the past three winters, the training camp in Beijing run by Italian ski instructor Martina Merlet has been overbooked. The relatively cheap cost - a three-day class is 5,200 yuan ($824) per person and includes transportation, accommodation and resort tickets - keeps customers coming back each year.
2012-01-20One of my best Beijing Spring Festival memories dates back to the 2009 New Year, when I lived in an apartment complex on the corner of Ghost Street and Dongzhimen Beixiaojie.
