Blog Tag - police
Responding effectively to crises is an intimidating process in any country, let alone for a Beijing newcomer who doesn’t speak Mandarin. Recent...
Ignorance is not bliss when it comes to learning the laws and rights in a new country. Here, we lay out some of the crucial rules that one should...
Mandarin Monday is a weekly column where we help you improve your Chinese by detailing learning tips, fun and practical phrases, and trends.
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There's one more reason to sleep tight in Beijing after the recent release of the 2019 Beijing police report, which outlines how 100 percent of all...
Central Beijing has never been a particularly dog-friendly city – what with the lack of green spaces, heavy traffic, and the occasional unprovoked...
Whether by accident or by design, nine thousand years ago, humankind began breeding a best friend. The wolves of the wild were domesticated into a...
You can never predict when something will get stolen. As I recently had the misfortune of discovering when I absently mindedly left my laptop in the...
A raid at the popular bar Heaven Supermarket in Sanlitun last night (May 10), and information passed on from well-placed sources, indicates that this...
Police raided a handful of popular Beijing bars and restaurants over the holiday weekend, conducting on-the-spot urine sample tests on customers and...
[UPDATED Mar 17, 1.45pm] The victim involved in the attack has contacted the Beijinger directly and would like it to be known that her assailants...
In the latest of Beijing scams, two of my friends have recently received a very similar automated voice message phone call, notifying them that they...
[Updated 7/23, 3.20pm] Read a translation of Sweetie Salad's public apology below.
No, they were not protesting something important, like the Fall of...
Last Monday, my Giant bicycle was stolen while I was in Muay Thai class. I left it in the bike parking lot on the west side of Sanlitun SOHO. Though...
A masked robber stole 11 watches from a Cartier store in Wangfujing Monday, ran away from store clerks, and making a getaway by taxi and on foot...
In what was easily the wildest Halloween Beijing has ever seen, one casualty was perhaps its best known annual event, the YEN Halloween Party,...