Pre-owned home sales almost tripled in Beijing last week, following the latest moves by the State Council to reign in this property market.

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Under Yang, Lenovo fine-tuned a feedback system that shot detailed sales data back to Lenovo executives in Beijing almost daily.

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In the cities, where economic reforms have advanced the furthest, rates are higher: almost a quarter of marriages in Beijing nowadays end in divorce.

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Dongguan's Brazilian community is now China's largest, twice the size of Shanghai's and almost triple the size of that in Beijing.

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From one store in Beijing in 2000, it today has almost 70 located in 15 provinces.

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Edward Galante, senior vice president in charge of downstream operations, has been traveling to Beijing almost monthly.

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For almost anyone selling anything, the Beijing Olympics are a chance to reach 1.3 billion people in an economy with double-digit growth, not to mention billions more watching around the world.

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