Residents of the Jianguomenwai and Guanghua Lu areas will be required to keep their windows shut August 22-23, and three major streets in eastern Beijing will be shut for most of those two days, orders to area residents obtained by the Beijinger show. This latest announcement of closures is in addition to restrictions  announced for sanitun, far from the route for the September 3 military parade, for which there will be a full-scale rehearsal during this coming weekend. All street-facing Jianguo Lu, Xi Dawang…

Beijing has become the first city to host both Summer and Winter Olympic Games after beating Kazakhstan's Almaty to hold the 2022 Winter Olympics. Following a closed-door vote by International Olympic Committee (IOC) members, President Thomas Bach announced that Beijing is the winner of 2022 Winter Olympics during the 128th IOC Session in Kuala Lumpur on Friday afternoon. With a fully-prepared final presentation by an all-star team, Beijing has successfully convinced the committee members that the 2008 Olympics host city…

BEIJING - Beijing will implement temporary air traffic controls on Sept 3, when a military parade is scheduled to take place in the city, China's top aviation regulator said on Saturday. Between 9:30 am and 12:30 pm that day, the city's two airports -- Beijing Capital International Airport and the smaller Nanyuan Airport -- will be closed, according to the Air Traffic Management Bureau of the Civil Aviation Administration of China. The authority said that many airlines have already canceled…

Forbes China released a list of the 30 most developed cities for tourism in the Chinese mainland yesterday in Shanghai. The findings show that Beijing, Shanghai and Chongqing are the top three, with the capital taking the lead. Compared with last year's result, the list saw Beijing secure its first place, and Chongqing and Guangzhou swapped their places. It is the first time for Chongqing to be included in the top three. Shenzhen, Hangzhou, Tianjin and Suzhou remain at the…