Beijing

For thirtysomething Zhang Jiao, after realising her dream of witnessing Argentina soccer great Lionel Messi lift the World Cup every match he plays from now on is precious. Zhang travelled from Shanghai to Beijing this week to…

Students in schools across several Beijing districts buckled down for online classes on Monday after officials called for residents in some of its hardest-hit areas to stay home, as COVID cases in China's capital and nationally ticked…

A Chinese government spokesman said on Saturday that China's capital Beijing is experiencing an "explosive" COVID-19 outbreak connected to a bar. The warning followed a new tightening of COVID curbs in Beijing since Thursday, with at…

China's Capital, Beijing has closed up entrances to more than 40 subway stations and 158 bus routes, to curb the wide spread of Omicron variant of COVID-19. The country has nearly 450 new cases since April, after testing 22 million…

Beijing kicked off three rounds of COVID-19 testing for all residents of its biggest district Chaoyang on Monday, after dozens of cases were reported. Authorities in Chaoyang, ordered residents and those who work in a home to 3.45…

The Chinese capital Beijing has reported its first locally transmitted infection of the highly Omicron variant. Officials confirmed the detection of the highly contagious strain at a news conference on Saturday. The Omicron variant…

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on Thursday that he would attend the opening of the Beijing Winter Olympics next month with the message that the event "must be an instrument of peace in the world."  His confirmed…

Signage for the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Games is displayed on a subway train in Beijing on January 6, 2022. (Photo by WANG Zhao / AFP) North Korea has slammed the US-led diplomatic boycott of February’s Beijing Winter Games, state…