“For three years in China we had the same ayi, a woman who came twice a week to clean our apartment, with a vengeance, for four hours a pop. You might think eight hours of cleaning a three-bedroom apartment each week is excessive, but it was very reasonable. Her monthly fee was RMB 900, or USD 145.
As always, our beautiful city is full of events and goings-on, especially with Beijing Design Week 2015 at its peak (these are our BJDW recommendations), but art exhibitions are easily overlooked as there are so many opening and closing, it can be easy to miss them.
While we’re certain that we weren’t the only people who had this idea about opening a cinematheque in the hutongs for regularly screening art films to the masses, the guys at Camera Stylo are certainly the first to follow through and be absolutely incredible doing it.
A couple of years ago, we and quite a few others poked fun at a Dutch artist's pie-in-the-sky project to build a smog-eating tower that would then compress the collected particulate matter into jewelry.
Well, he's gone and done it, and if all goes well, one of these seven-meter-tall babies will be appearing in Beijing soon.
This post is sponsored by the Hilton Beijing Capital Airport.
Qyer.com, a leading Chinese overseas travel website will hold its Qyer Carnival at 751 D-Park in Beijing this Saturday and Sunday (Sep 26-27).
As Qyer is a travel company, the carnival will have a travel focus, allowing visitors to experience exotic travel desinations, trendy concerts, and sports activities, all while meeting new friends and travelers with different backgrounds.
Celebrity Paris Hilton will appear at Boombar, the newly-opened Beijing outlet of the Korean nightclub chain, on October 15 at an event entitled "Glam Night," the Beijinger has learned.
"Beijing's first international star socialite private party, as long as 3880 can experience the high society of corruption in the TV drama," Boombar said in a WeChat post. Translated from Chinglish, that means the entry price is RMB 3,880.
On Tuesday the Internet gods and whatever else is up there finally heard our prayers and gave in, as China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) urged telecommunication companies to lower Internet prices, and, drum roll please, elevate connection speeds. Yes!
According to Ecns, these targets need to be met by the end of the year, MIIT's Minister Miao Wei said Tuesday at the opening ceremony of the 2015 China International Information Communication Expo.
Get crazy this weekend with these official selections from yours truly. You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, but ultimately you are guaranteed to wake up with a hangover. You have been warned.
October 1, also known as Golden Week, draws droves of local and international tourists to Beijing's most famous attractions. Consider avoiding these sites during the Oct 1-7 period, or visit them later in the day when crowds diminish a bit.
