Merry Christmas everyone! In case you’re sticking around for the holiday and want to hear the Mass or attend special Christmas services, you can visit any of the places of worship that we have listed below. Just a friendly reminder: we highly recommend you to reconfirm with them about the schedules before going and bring your passport with you since many congregations will require it for entry.
Alpine skiing is gaining enormous popularity in China and is only expected to expand further with the Beijing Winter Olympics in 2022 just around the corner. Skiing is a fantastic sport and a great way to enjoy the outdoors. However, with the growing number of skiers and the constantly changing styles and equipment, the technical and physical demands are growing as well. This has resulted in a significant increase in winter sports-related injuries in ski resorts around the world.
What better way to get into the holiday spirit than cozying up next to some of the country’s finest sounds? From psychedelia out of Hangzhou, to live drum n' bass antics to keep you moving through the night – plus a very celebratory evening for Beijing’s own Omni Space – there are plenty of good spirits to pass around this festive musical weekend.
More than 10 million users of bike-rental firm ofo have requested deposit refunds, with the company possibly owing in excess of RMB 1 billion (USD 145 million) to its riders.
The fun, the strange, and the what-on-earth-is-this: a wrap-up of top stories in Beijing as told by the trending hashtags, local press, and general power of the internet.
The beloved Beijing brewery is set to open a new location in Lido by this weekend (Dec 21).
There are lively interviewees, and then there’s Nancy Jenkinson Brown. The British expat has the air of a golden age jazz musician, with her regal tone of voice and whip-smart repartee. Keeping her on track throughout our Q&A about her career in the capital, singing pop and jazz standards in practically every music venue possible over the past 10 years, and co-hosting the popular talk radio show Touch Beijing on FM 92.3, is by no means an easy feat. But like any gifted jazz performer, her conversational segues make for some enthralling improv and funny anecdotes.
Beijing Beats brings you the best in Beijing nightlife each weekend so that you can soothe the woes of a long and stressful week with some out-of-body gyrating and some experiences you'd rather forget come Monday. Check the weekend's full list of nightlife events here.
As the year comes to a close, it's time for us to look back on some of the happy, the sad, and the downright weird happenings in Beijing over the past 12 months. Without further ado, here is our Top 10 New Restaurants of 2018.
From ceviche to tacos, Fujian beef to Korean fried chicken and more, Beijing's best new restaurants of 2018 spanned practically every corner of the globe. Read on, and dig into all the delectable new bites that our fair city has to offer.
At first glance, this year could be viewed in many ways as unexceptional, yet the first thing that struck us from conducting these interviews for The Year From Every Angle is that by and large 2018 was a year of progress.
