More than 50 people were fined over the past week for spitting in the streets of Beijing and refusing to correct the bad habit, Xinhua news agency reported on Monday.

Beijing has outlawed spitting, queue-jumping, littering and other conduct likely to tarnish the city's image when it hosts next year's Olympics.

According to Xinhua, 56 people were fined for spitting during the week-long May Day holiday by five inspection teams patrolling the city.

The city government said earlier this year that spitters and litterers would face fines of up to 50 yuan (6.5 dollars).

William R. Brody
By William R. Brody

Harvard, Beijing Call It Quits

Cambridge, Mass. (May 7, 2017)—
Harvard — America's oldest and the world's richest university — announced today it would close its Beijing campus, less than 10 years after opening the $1.2 billion state-of-the-art facility. A spokesperson for the university attributed the decision to disappointing enrollment, an inability to maintain academic standards and mounting financial problems.

Labor authorities in Guangdong and elsewhere have begun investigating the claims, while the All-China Federation of Trade Unions has urged the fast-food companies to redress any violations of regulations

Question: How much does a part-time worker at McDonald's earn in one hour?

Answer: Four yuan (52 cents), or slightly less than the price of two ice-cream cones.

Joanna Reade was tempted to name her daughter Sinead but she wanted something more unusual for her baby girl, so she added her own twist and Shanaze was inked in on the birth certificate. Fitting, then, that the now 18-year-old is making a name for herself as a unique talent, winning gold medals in BMX and track cycling.

Chinese central bank chief Zhou Xiaochuan acknowledged today that a bubble in the country's stock market was a concern and said the central bank was monitoring asset prices along with inflation.

China's main stock index, the Shanghai Composite Index, has surged about 235 per cent since the start of 2006 and more then 40 per cent so far this year, but has also shown some volatility, including a 9 per cent fall in February that led to market declines worldwide.

The values of many stocks relative to company earnings are high compared with international benchmarks and historical levels.

China travel n business guide: Beijing, Shanghai, Hong Kong, culture, investment, finance,
by culture, globalization, travel and finance Sunday, May. 06, 2007 at 9:57 PM

China today has over 600,000 overseas business shops set up, covering all industrial, financial, and business sectors. Explore key investment, economic, business and political issues.

Chinese multinationals, finance, outsourcing, travel, politics, and trade vs challenges and conflicts under globalization

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Bryan Marshall
Register News Writer

BEREA — The Berea College Concert Choir soon will be making a trip from Berea to Beijing for a concert tour in China.

Sixty choir members, six Berea faculty and staff members and 27 alumni and friends are signed up for the 14-day tour — scheduled May 29-June 11.

Last Updated(Beijing Time):2007-05-06 13:56

The fifth Beijing International Drama Festival, in celebration of the 100th anniversary of Chinese drama, brought down its curtain on Friday.
As part of the closing ceremony, a performance was put up for a recurrence to the first modern Chinese drama on Friday night at the Great Hall of the People.

The drama was originally produced by Chinese students in Japan in 1907. It's an adaptation of the American slave story "Uncle Tom's Cabin".

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