As wages go up, more people in Beijing can afford to take taxis, but supply is artificially constrained.
Many people in Beijing wonder how much those early connections have protected Hu.
China is in denial and refuses to confirm that the virus is affecting people in Beijing and Shanghai, as well as South China and Hong Kong.
The torrential flood that killed at least 37 people in Beijing over the weekend has fueled anger against the government as well as cast doubt about the official death toll.
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You're competing against young people in Beijing and Bangalore.
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In the real world, if you hand out flyers for a pizza restaurant in Birmingham to people in Beijing and Mexico City, then you're not going to get the customers you want.
As rumors swirled that a mysterious pneumonia was killing people in Beijing, Li, then a postgraduate student, dismissed the fears as overblown because he saw footage on state television of seemingly carefree foreign tourists arriving in the country's capital.
Wipro has a hundred people in Shanghai and Beijing and also plans to expand.
They were young and middle-aged workers, people who lived in Beijing but did not have the much-prized residency permit that would allow them to settle with their families.
"The Party is like God, " a professor from People's University in Beijing tells McGregor.
But Shi Yinhong, an international-relations expert at People's University in Beijing, says that if North Korea keeps testing nuclear weapons, the veil of friendship could soon be shattered.
The process has improved somewhat for the Chinese, but outside the embassy in Beijing people still stand in line for three hours just to apply for a simple tourist visa.
On Friday, Beijing News reported that people carrying the H7N9 virus may have entered Beijing in recent days from East China due to an increased flow of tourists, but no cases of bird flu have been reported there as of Friday.
Two government researchers said in a commentary in the People's Daily on Wednesday that while Beijing is resolved to continue intervening in the property market, that won't necessarily result in a hard landing in the sector, and warned about the exaggeration of such risks.
"The president is firmly committed to building a relationship of growing strength, " Lew said at the meeting in the Great Hall of the People, the seat of China's ceremonial legislature in Beijing.
In 2003, some 5, 500 people, including teachers and parents, visited the education ministry in Beijing to seek redress over issues ranging from high fees to corruption and unpaid wages for teachers.
Punters are hoping the just-opened National People's Congress (NPC) in Beijing (see story on page 30) will act to boost the economy and help red chips.
On a lighter note, the recent tensions with Japan appear to be boosting sales of "Tokyo Big Bang" and "I love the Diaoyu Islands" fireworks in Beijing, according to People's Net.
The Journal hired consultants to investigate the matter and uncovered a major breach in which hacking groups it wasn't clear whether they were working together entered the company's networks, in part through computers in the Beijing office, people familiar with the situation said.
In a People's Daily editorial, Beijing refers to the bombings as "nothing extraordinary" and says its policy toward Taiwan hasn't changed.
The International Olympic Committee has even asked the Beijing organizing committee to allow more people in.
Average people in North Korea would certainly feel the effects of Beijing's wrath before Pyongyang's political elite.
Nor whether that will hurt or help the people who work in Michigan or those served by the Beijing city government.
Audible ( ADBL - news - people ) Magic, Vobile has offices in Hangzhou and Beijing--a fact that Wang hopes will make it the logical choice for dealing with Chinese sites.
To calm anxieties, police in Beijing have posted an online notice telling people that "the so-called end of the world is a rumour".
The switch may accelerate the plans of Morgan Stanley's Shanghai-based joint venture, Morgan Stanley Huaxin Securities, to add offices in Shenzhen and Beijing, one of the people added.
In the most recent incident, the Journal was notified by the FBI of a potential breach in the middle of last year, when the FBI came across data that apparently had come from the computer network in the Journal's Beijing bureau, people familiar with the incident said.
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