This March 21 story was updated on March 22 to add comment from demographer in paragraphs 4-6, details in paragraph 11 BEIJING, March 21 (Reuters) - The death rate in China's capital Beijing surpassed ...

BEIJING -- Karaoke parlors, movie theaters and discos shut their doors Sunday under orders from Beijing officials trying to contain the spread of SARS, which claimed more lives in the Chinese capital, ...

BEIJING, March 30 (UPI) -- Demonstrations in the Chinese capital Sunday showed how far the government trusts its citizens exercising the right to protest as three attempts by Beijing residents to ...

Beijing? Beijing’s mayor was fired, state-run newspapers reported today, a day after he and China’s health minister were sacked from key Communist Party posts amid criticism over the government’s ...

BEIJING — The World Health Organization on Tuesday lifted its warning against travel to this capital city and removed it from the list of SARS-infected areas, one day after Hong Kong won the same ...

Chinese capital saw more deaths than births in 2022 as high cost of living and education as well as legacy of one-child policy take their toll Beijing’s population has declined for the first time in ...

Beijing has started rebuilding Xiaotangshan Hospital, which was used solely for SARS patients in 2003, in a bid to contain the outbreak of the novel coronavirus, a senior official said on Thursday.

The death rate in China's capital Beijing surpassed its birth rate in 2022, official data showed on Tuesday, pushing its natural population growth into negative territory for the first time since 2003 ...