Sources: BBC
Honduras opens its first embassy in Beijing, China, after breaking off relations with Taiwan in March. 2023-06-11
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
Rare anti-government protests occur in Beijing ahead of the 20th National Congress of the ruling Chinese Communist Party, protesting the government "Zero-COVID" policy. 2022-10-13
North Korea's supreme leader Kim Jong-un meets with China's paramount leader Xi Jinping in Beijing, on what is his first known travel outside North Korea since assuming office in 2011. 2018-03-27
The World Health Organisation estimates that air pollution contributed to seven million deaths in 2012. 2014-03-25
Five people are killed after a car crashes into barriers just outside the Forbidden City in Tiananmen Square, Beijing, China. 2013-10-28
Chinese police arrest six people and shut down 16 websites for allegedly spreading rumours that military vehicles were on the streets of Beijing. 2012-03-31
Israeli archaeologists reportedly discover human remains from 400,000 years ago, challenging the theory that humans originated in Africa. 2010-12-28
A court in Beijing upholds a sentence against Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo who was sentenced to 11 years imprisonment on charges of subversion. 2010-02-11