• Life is only once, either to be extraordinary or just plain life

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  JENSEN MORENO An Award-winning Filipino Artist, international school art teacher and Founding Owner of Jensen Moreno Fine Arts Philippines, Beijing Artists Group

• Beijing calls for family leave to show filial piety

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  A new plan calls for employers in Beijing to give staff more time off to show filial piety to their elderly relatives as the government aims to build a senior-friendly city. This is the first time that the capital has proposed such leave, reported Beijing News on Wednesday.

• Young at Heart: Love-struck Seniors Celebrate Chinese Valentine's Day in Beijing

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  Around 77 elderly couples from various communities in Beijing's Chaoyang's District, celebrated their longstanding weddings on Qixi Festival, also known as Chinese Valentine's Day, on August 9.

• Car blamed in PLA fender-bender

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  The Chinese military on Thursday gave details of an accident involving a motorcade of armored vehicles, dismissing some internet users' accusations against the People's Liberation Army.

• Beijing doles out cash rewards for exiting chemical plants

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  Beijing is offering cash rewards as an incentive for chemical plants that leave the nation's capital. Eighty hazardous chemical plants should be out of the city by 2018, the local work safety watchdog said on Thursday.

• Is Beijing really sinking?

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  Recently, some foreign media reported that excessive pumping of groundwater is causing the geology under Beijing to collapse, which has attracted wide attention. The Water Supplies Bureau of Beijing responded that the decline of groundwater levels has been slowed down currently and it is expected that starting from 2025, the underground water level of Beijing will gradually recover.

• Chinese Twin Students Both Celebrate Offers from Oxford

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  A twin brother and sister from Beijing have both received offers from the University of Oxford, and will enter the prestigious institution later this year.

• Beijing's Zhongguancun Street gets facelift fund

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  BEIJING - Beijing plans to set up an 8-billion- yuan (about $1.53 billion) fund for a facelift for Zhongguancun Street, a key thoroughfare in northwestern Beijing often called "China's Silicon Valley."

• Beijing promotes eco-friendly burials ahead of Tomb-Sweeping Day

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  A man scatters the ashes of his late father into the sea in Shenyang, Northeast China's Liaoning province.

• A woman has been sentenced to eight months in prison for threatening to bomb a Beijing subway station, a prosecutor responsible for the case revealed on Monday.

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  A woman has been sentenced to eight months in prison for threatening to bomb a Beijing subway station, a prosecutor responsible for the case revealed on Monday.