Sources: BBC
The Comac C919, China's first domestically-built passenger jet, completes its first commercial flight from Shanghai to Beijing by China Eastern Airlines. 2023-05-28
The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation announces it will close its Beijing bureau after over 40 years of operation, stating that the Chinese government has been intentionally delaying granting work visas to its reporters for over two years. 2022-11-2
Liu Xia, widow of Nobel Peace Prize laureate and human rights activist Liu Xiaobo, is allowed to leave Beijing, China, for Berlin, Germany. 2018-07-10
North Korea's all-female Moranbong Band, which was formed by leader Kim Jong-un, surprisingly cancels tonight's concert at Beijing's National Centre for the Performing Arts, and two others and returns to Pyongyang. Rumors for the sudden change abound, but no reason has been given. The sudden cancellation could hurt Chinese-North Korean relations, cooler since between Kim assumed power in 2011. 2015-12-12
Five people are killed after a car crashes into barriers just outside the Forbidden City in Tiananmen Square, Beijing, China. 2013-10-28
Former King of Cambodia Norodom Sihanouk dies in Beijing at the age of 89. 2012-10-15
At least 17 people are killed and at least 24 others are injured as a four-storey building goes up in flames in Daxing, a suburb of Beijing. 2011-04-25
Xiaobo's lawyer confirms that his wife Liu Xia is under house arrest in Beijing. 2010-10-11
The second round of the U.S.–China Strategic and Economic Dialogue begins in Beijing, China. 2010-05-24