A pivotal subway route linking southern and northern Beijing suspended operation for about 13 minutes during the rush hour Wednesday morning, stranding thousands of people on their way to work.

But Wawrinka, who won the gold at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, would not be a pushover. The Swiss has beaten Federer at the Monte Carlo Masters earlier in the year and will be looking for another shot at his countryman.

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Beijing has registered 26 deaths among the 9,007 people infected by the A/H1N1 flu so far, the municipal health bureau said Tuesday. Of all the infected cases, including 8,655 Beijing people and 352 from overseas, 80 were in critical condition, said Zhao Tao, a disease control official with the bureau. The overall development trend of the flu remained stable, and a large-scale outbreak of the ...

BEIJING, China -- The Beijing Chaoyang District People's Court has sentenced eight people to serve prison terms ranging from one to four years and pay fines totaling several thousand dollars after being convicted of counterfeiting registered trademarks and manufacturing, distributing and selling counterfeit golf equipment.

BEIJING - Beijing has registered 26 deaths among the 9,007 people infected by the A/H1N1 flu so far, the municipal health bureau said Tuesday.

Columbia University’s Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science has partnered with Tsinghua University in Beijing, one of the top-ranked universities in China, to collaborate in cutting-edge research in the field of genomics. To help enable the project, Tsinghua University will set aside dedicated laboratory space for the collaborative research.

BEIJING - At least two people were killed after an oil tank caught fire and exploded in Beijing Tuesday, local police said. The accident happened at about 3:27 p.m. on Dajian Road in Fangshan District, southwestern Beijing, according to the public security bureau of the district.

Beijing on Monday criticized a U.S. government report that said Chinese spies are aggressively stealing American secrets, saying the report was "full of prejudice" and warning that it could damage US-China relations.

Three taxi drivers in Beijing received letters of thanks from the White House praising their excellent work during Obama's visit to Beijing, the Beijing Times reported. The three taxi drivers, Wang Decheng, Zhou Yong and Yang Bo, from the Capital Auto Group, helped drive members of the White House communications staff around Beijing last week. "We used to serve the Italian government during the ...