City’s first professional muay Thai fight happens next month

Muay Thai enthusiasts in Beijing are holding their breath for Battlefield X1 “Supremacy,” the first professional muay Thai fight in towno be held November 11 at the China World Hotel. The event is also the first in China to be endorsed by the World Professional Muay Thai Federation (WPMF).

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Wear pink today to show your support to the United PINK Campaign, which promotes breast cancer awareness and prevention. Show your community spirit, dress creatively and email photos of yourself in pink to organizers. You might just find yourself on the United PINK Campaign’s website.

South Railway Station opens bus hub to improve access

Beijing South Railway Station may be known as Asia’s largest train station, but it has also gained notoriety for not being easily accessibe.

Splendid iron sculpture show

The Beijing Art & Craft Group exhibited their new iron sculptures, on display until mid-October. The work is about 56 Chinese minorities dancing to the background of 29 world culture heritage sites.

Ask Beijing Today

Friends are visiting Beijing this month and I want to take them to the Bird’s Nest. Is there a number I can call for information like ticket prices and visiting hours?

Beijing IFC to perform romantic-comic opera

The International Festival Chorus (IFC) returns to its roots with a performance of W.S. Gilbert & Arthur Sullivan’sThe Pirates of Penzance at The Forbidden City Concert Hall next Saturday.

NGO teaches basketball to migrant girls

Six volunteers from CAI, an NGO that provides art and sports training to underprivileged children, concluded a basketball workshop in Dongba Shiyan School, Chaoyang District, last Saturday.

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Check out old Beijing’s lanes, courtyards, kindergartens and vegetable markets. Chat with Beijingers in their homes, learn the meaning of courtyard architectural symbols nd find out how local life has changed in recent years.

Absolute Cate

If you are someone who complains there is no place in Beijing to get a good Shanghai “shengjianbao” (pan-fried stuffed buns), you will change your mind after visiting Absolute Cate.

Neverland Coffee

Surrounded by office buildings, hotels, a cinema and a shopping mall, Neverland Coffee is nonetheless an oasis of calm in the busy CBD. The place is awash in cheerful colors; the silk curtains are green, the cushions purple and the corner sofas red. Floor-to-ceiling windows allow sunshine to illuminate it.