Here's What You Missed During Beijing's Spring Festival Holiday

Welcome back. It's Sunday, we're working. It also happens to be Valentine's Day and we're still working. Here are some things you may have missed over the last week.

The Ultimate 2016 Valentine's Day Events Guide: If you're just realizing it's Valentine's Day and that you have to do something about it, start here.

Pollution: A Doctor's Perspective: Despite the fireworks, air quality in Beijing was generally good during the holiday. But pollution remains part of Beijing life, and Dr. Michael Couturie takes a look at what it means for all of us who live here.

Seven Years After: New Photos of the Spring Festival CCTV Fire: February 9 marked the seventh anniversary of the fire that killed one firefighter and destroyed the Mandarin Oriental hotel, set to open this year. We looked back, with new photos of the fire's beginning.

Rumi Closes Indefinitely After 10 Years in Business: Rumi, one of Beijing’s top Middle Eastern restaurants and not to be confused with the long-dead Sufi mystic/poet, has shuttered its doors indefinitely.

WSJ's Beijing Bureau Reveal Their Favorite Foods: We read The Wall Street Journal's China Real Time Report every weekday morning, so we were interested when they published a list of their favorite meals from around China for 2015.

Beijing Guo'an Signs Turkish Forward Burak Yilmaz for EUR 8 Million: China became a force in the January professional soccer transfer window, with Beijing Guo'an and other Chinese Super League teams splashing the cash on name players from Europe.

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