In China Hyflux now has water projects in 20 cities, including Beijing and Shanghai.
Prices in the 10 biggest cities, including Beijing and Shanghai, fell 0.5% from April, and 3.2% year-over-year.
Overall, seven emerging-market capitals are more expensive than the Big Apple, including Beijing, Seoul and Tel Aviv.
Late last year several Chinese cities, including Beijing and Shanghai, began requiring weibo users to register their real names.
In December 2011 several Chinese cities, including Beijing and Shenzhen, began requiring weibo users to register with their real names before posting comments online.
The raids, carried out over the past couple of months, tackled gangs in many different parts of China including Beijing, Jiangsu, Zhejiang and many other regions.
Despite its reputation for the unsentimental pursuit of the yuan, the city has had more success in saving its heritage than many others in China, including Beijing.
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He has traveled extensively throughout the world giving lectures and seminars for private and government organizations, including Beijing Academy of Social Science, Nagoya University, Tokyo Science University, Keimung University, University of Adelaide, Saint Gallen University, Duisburg University, University of Edinburgh, and Athens University of Economics and Business.
"Andy wants to take some rest and recharge his batteries before a very gruelling period including the Beijing Olympics, " a spokesman said.
Her followers on Twitter have relished her dispatches from Beijing including photographs of her pretending to be a flight attendant on board a Cathay Pacific flight and a barista at a Starbucks outlet complete with a green apron.
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From July 1, work units in Beijing, including universities, will stop subsidizing rents of senior employees.
Only four cities registered rising real estate prices month-over-month for new homes, including the majors: Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen.
"They have little incentive to over-report use of energy, including electricity, as Beijing imposes increasingly restrictive regulations on energy use per unit of GDP on local governments, " said Bank of America Merrill-Lynch economist Lu Ting in a note.
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The government had previously lifted the ban temporarily for other large-scale events, including the 2008 Olympics in Beijing.
It is also well-known for its other iconic buildings including the futuristic CCTV headquarters in Beijing and the Shanghai World Financial Center, which is China's tallest skyscraper.
Figures last year showed that Beijing's population, including nearby towns and villages, had reached 20m, up nearly 45% on a decade earlier, and exceeding the city government's estimate for 2020.
The company, however, is internationally known for its second business as a premier diamond jeweler and luxury timepiece retailer with salons in key locations throughout the world, including New York, Paris, London, Beijing, Tokyo, Hong Kong and Beverly Hills.
Filmmaker Wu Wenguang, who often is credited as the father of the movement, will be present for screenings Thursday and Friday, including one for his 1990 "Bumming in Beijing: The Last Dreamers, " which explores the lives of five artists living on the fringes of the Chinese metropolis, striving for survival.
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In Beijing, a documentary on sexuality education including gender and HIV will be launched.
Month on month prices of new homes declined in some cities, but remained stable overall, including in the tier one cities of Shanghai, Beijing and Guangzhou.
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The stately building is home to one of the world's top collections of Chinese art, including most of the imperial treasures once housed in Beijing's Forbidden City.
They have won several WTA doubles titles, including Wimbledon 2006 and the bronze medal at the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
Users in Beijing and many other major Chinese cities, including Shanghai, Chongqing, Chengdu, Shenzhen and Guangzhou, reported the same problem.
At Beijing's Oriental Plaza moviehouse, 600 filmgoers, including 200 journalists, watched the film showing simultaneously in the cinema's six viewing rooms, while scores of others were turned away.
The show used Chinese extras for its scenes, which were taped in various locations, including a village in China's Hubei province, and at Beijing's Temple of Heaven -- hundreds of miles away.
In February, the Beijing municipality rolled out a set of 15 measures, including purchasing restrictions for migrant residents and higher downpayments for second-home purchases, in a bid to further cool the property market.
The 31-year-old has finished fifth in two Olympic Games at 2000 and 2008 - including when Usain Bolt broke Michael Johnson's world record in Beijing - plus fifth at the 2001 World Championships and fourth at the 2002 European Championships.
She has written on technology for various media publications including the South China Morning Post, where she founded and wrote the "Beijing Byte" column.
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Although SARS occurred a decade ago, an inordinate number of people and businesses declined comment for this article -- including all four international airports in the SARS hub cities of Hong Kong, Beijing, Singapore and Toronto.
According to the Paris-based International Energy Agency, Beijing has an array of policies in place to promote energy efficiency, including a comprehensive climate change program put in place last year.
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