The article 'Hutong alleyways: Old Beijing at its timeless best' was published in partnership with Lonely Planet.
On January 5, a 19-year-old Beijing woman died of bird flu after handling poultry, officials said.
Saturday, China reported a 7-year-old Beijing girl is the latest person to become infected with the H7N9 flu strain, bringing the total to 44.
But the 40-year-old Beijing CEO is still a geek at heart.
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Yet, the problem for many other places that are emblematic of an old Beijing is that, in 21st-century China, they are caught in the middle of a collision between history and modernity.
China's capital may be racing towards the future at breakneck speed but sneak behind one of the city's glittering, ultra-modern tower blocks and you find a slice of old Beijing that seems to have been lost in time.
On Saturday a seven-year-old girl became Beijing's first confirmed case of the H7N9 strain.
For nine days this summer, viewers across the globe were glued to their TV sets watching the 23-year-old swimmer break Mark Spitz's 36-year-old record at Beijing's Olympic Games.
Chinese worker Lu Shaoqing, who is helping to build sports stadiums in Angola, says he left his wife and seven-year-old daughter in Beijing for a number of reasons.
Shoppers like Shao Wenbi, a 24-year-old market researcher in Beijing, want the latest trends.
Recently her 14-year-old brother joined her in Beijing: Mrs Liu says she knew that he would leave when he returned home crying from school, because other pupils had nicer houses, and electricity.
Turning to the H7N9 bird flu virus, the death toll rose to seven on Monday with the death of a 64-year-old man in Shanghai, Beijing Times reports.
Speaking at the FT Sport Summit in London, Pound lent his weight in support of the 23-year-old athlete being cleared to compete in Beijing.
The 38-year-old Romanian picked up the gold in Beijing but has never finished the London Marathon higher than the third place she gained in 2007.
Medical teams found the boy in a check of people who had contact with a 7-year-old girl, who was confirmed as Beijing's first case of H7N9 over the weekend: a neighbor of the boy bought chicken from the girl's family.
The evidence comes from DNA extracted from a 40, 000-year-old leg bone found in a cave near Beijing.
Since his success in Beijing, the 24 year-old has been clocking up milestones, becoming the first Paralympian to compete at the European Championships.
Chi Wei, a 30-year-old saleswoman at a La Perla store in Beijing's central shopping district, Wangfujing, says some customers feel insulted when she tells them about the brand.
"I think we have a goal, " said 23-year-old Christina Zhang, an undergraduate in linguistics at Beijing Normal University.
By nine, she had started competing internationally and took silver at the Beijing Paralympics when she was 15 years old.
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Among them is the gold medal she won at the Beijing Olympics, aged just 17 years old, as part of Ukraine's three-woman sabre fencing team.
As well as his 100m and 200m wins in Beijing, the 22-year-old Bolt led Jamaica's 4x100m sprint relay to Olympic victory in a record time of 37.10.
The 28-year-old swimmer's phenomenal Paralympics victories at the 2008 Beijing Games means his all-time haul is 11 gold medals.
Their pilgrimage took them to the cultural treasures at Luoyang and Xian, both sites of ancient capitals, the old trading post of Dunhuang and, of course, Beijing and the Great Wall.
Guan Kaiyuan, a 22-year-old law student at the China Institute of Industrial Relations in Beijing, had pointed out that Prof Kong's self-composed Tang Dynasty-style poem on his microblog did not rhyme correctly.
The 23-year-old who won the lightweight double sculls title with Mark Hunter in Beijing is now focussing on 2012.
But still, the expectant mother jokes that she would be an old lady before she could ever afford a home of her own in Beijing without government help.
The 19-year-old -- who dominated the event last year culminating in her stunning Beijing win -- had complained of having a problem with her ankle after Sunday's first round heat.
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