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Design Fans Become Wannabe Astronauts at Subu: Beijing Dining (Bloomberg)
Jan. 7 (Bloomberg) -- We ordered a bowl of bullfrog in a Beijing restaurant that looks like the set of a 1970s science- fiction movie. No, that’s not a combination I’d tried before.
Beijing Reports Fatality in Suspected Bird-Flu Case (Update4) (Bloomberg)
Jan. 6 (Bloomberg) -- Beijing, the most severely infected city during the 2003 global SARS epidemic, has reported a possible death from avian flu, as an unusually cold winter saps resistance in the Chinese capital.
China says 19-year-old woman dies from bird flu in Beijing hospital (Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune)
BEIJING - A Chinese woman has died from bird flu in a Beijing hospital after contracting the disease last month, the government said Tuesday. The Ministry of Health said Huang Yanqing, 19, died Monday.