When Beijing Railway Bureau opened online ticket sales in January, 350 people booked train seats in the first five days.
Beijing also has opened the door wider for foreign investors to access the domestic bond market, though Chinese banks and mutual funds still make up the biggest chunk of buyers.
Luke's Medical Center in Manila, says the private institution is "better equipped than 90% of hospitals in the U.S." Bangkok's high-tech Bumrungrad Hospital has also geared up to meet this demand, as has the newly opened Beijing United Family Hospital, which caters to wealthy Chinese as well as expatriates.
It may be a harbinger that the Matthew McConaughey flick, The Lincoln Lawyer, has just opened in Beijing.
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Late last year in Beijing, Gulfstream Aerospace opened the first business aircraft service center run by a Western manufacturer in China.
Tom Ford International now encompasses 19 freestanding stores in 17 countries, with a new flagship store recently opened in Beijing and the first London store set to open in the fall.
We also have a campus that we opened in Beijing in 2010 and we currently have operations in Shenzhen that may convert into a fully fledged campus within the next two to three years.
Outside Singapore, Venus has already opened offices in Beijing, Shanghai, Jakarta and Hong Kong and will add Seoul and Manila by year's end.
First quarter passenger car sales in China may have been flat, but that does not seem to have dampened the enthusiasm for the Beijing Auto Show, which opened earlier this week.
To further build on booming U.S.-Chinese economic ties, East West has opened an office in Beijing.
It has opened sports camps in Beijing and Shanghai, also sponsored by Nike.
To help close the gap on the two titans, Li-Ning has opened new flagship stores in Beijing and Shanghai.
On May 6, she also opened her 50th retail outlet in Beijing.
Apple opened its first Apple Store in Beijing only in 2008.
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When an American-style drive-in movie theatre opened in the north-eastern outskirts of Beijing in 1998, it was tempting to imagine young urban Chinese using their new cars as a tool for dating.
The company, which has a workforce of 15, 300, has been trying to boost sales by focusing on new areas of business and expanding geographically, last year having opened up its first wholly owned development center in Beijing.
Its first outlet in China opened in January 1999 at the China World Trade Centre in Beijing.
Mr Ai says officials dismissed suggestions that Beijing airport's new terminal, designed by Sir Norman Foster and opened for the games, should be adorned with modern art.
Tam opened a shop in Shanghai's upscale Xintiandi district and Beijing's China World in 2004, and later paired up with Disney for "Year of the Mouse" projects in Shanghai and Hong Kong.
Evergreen, for example, has opened nine offices there, while its EVA Airways has maintained branches in Beijing and Shanghai during the past two years - despite the fact that it can't fly to China yet.
Ever since China opened its doors for business in 1978, there have been foreign workers in Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen and other large Eastern coastal cities.
China has officially opened the world's longest high-speed rail route, linking the capital Beijing with the southern commercial hub of Guangzhou.
For example, if a mobile account opened in Shanghai, and sparingly used for local calls, begins making numerous calls from Beijing to a few numbers in a distant western province, then it is likely that a phone thief is calling friends back home.
Geovanni opened the scoring for the Tigers, but his ninth-minute effort was cancelled out by Beijing's Mobido William just after the break.
The Olympic silver medallist opened with an effort of 17.10 but passed the qualifying mark with his second attempt, Beijing gold medallist Nelson Evora leading the early qualifiers for Tuesday's final with 17.44.
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