On the subway in Beijing, as in most cities with underground Wi-Fi connections, commuters usually spend their rides mindlessly staring at their phones, scrolling through emails or playing games. But ...

When the Beijing Subway opened on 1 October 1969, only two short lines served the growing Chinese capital. Now, with a population of over 17.4 million in the metro area, Beijing has to act fast to ...

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Two subway trains collided in heavy snow in Beijing, resulting in 515 people being sent to the hospital on Thursday evening. The incident occurred in the mountainous west of Beijing, on the ...

The expansion of the Beijing Metro could serve as a metaphor for the rise of the People’s Republic of China as a superpower: Its first line opened in 1969, at the height of the Cultural Revolution, ...

Metro lines being renovated ahead of 2008 Olympic Games by integrator Keybridge Communications GERMANTOWN, Md. -- Optelecom-NKF, Inc., a leading global provider of advanced Internet Protocol (IP)- ...

BEIJING, 10 May (BelTA - Xinhua) - Beijing Subway will have an unmanned line, according to the website of State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council. Line 12 of ...

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One of the most noticeable aspects of the Beijing Subway is how tickets are still checked manually by humans at the entrance to each platform. This era of manual ticket checking is about end as ...

An anti-sexual harassment campaign has launched in parts of the Beijing subway system amid repeated reports of assault against women on the city’s public transport system. Sponsored by the state-run ...

Reporting from BEIJING — When a single mother was crushed to death while trying to get onto an overcrowded subway train in November, it pointed to a problem that transit officials in the Chinese ...

Reporting from Beijing — This Halloween in Beijing, monsters, ghosts and zombies will have to take the bus. Beijing police have warned that anyone in “weird clothing” or in “scary makeup” will not be ...