Germany-headquartered retailer Metro has signed an investment contract with the government of Yantai, Shandong to build a new supermarket in the Zhifu district of the city.

Beijing, China (September 29, 2009) /ChinaNewswire.com/ — MyRSS.cn, the leading free Chinese social media news monitoring tool for the public relations professionals and a service of Xinwengao.com, has enlarged its pool of aggregated news to now include monitoring of media sources in Hong Kong and Taiwan.
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Liu Zejun, the director of the Beijing Aiguo Weisheng Commission, has disclosed to the media that Beijing will work out measures on the revision of the No Smoking Rule in 2010, after an evaluation is made before the end of 2009 on the results of the current smoking ban in the city.

Taiwan-based cafe and bakery 85°C has opened its first Beijing outlet in Chongwenmen New World Shopping Mall.

Chongwen district in Beijing has announced that, following renovation, Qianmen street will re-open at 11:08 on September 28, 2009, and the 103 stores along the street will all be open for business.

Beijing, China (September 25, 2009) /ChinaNewswire.com/ — Thirty years ago, the vast majority of China's huge population had never eaten a piece of chocolate. Yet as Deng Xiaoping gradually transformed China from the early 1980s through the early 2000s and a poor, oppressed communist state became a powerful, modern market-driven socialist economy, hundreds of [...]