Thousands of Beijing residents have had enough and are calling for a Clean Air Act in an online vote on Sina Weibo, Xinhua News Agency reports.

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On May 14th Beijing Daily tried to taunt Mr Locke by calling on him to reveal his assets.

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China analysts have been calling for more government action, with many expected Beijing to act more forcefully after the Communist Party announces its new set of leaders sometime next month.

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Though calling it a local deals business in a mega-city like Beijing, for example, is a little bit of a misnomer, Chao says.

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Internet users are calling for the unsolved case of Zhu Ling, a chemistry student at Beijing's Tsinghua University who became permanently disabled after being poisoned with thallium in 1994, to be reopened.

BBC: China media: Middle East mediation

Beijing News commentator Wei Wei welcomes an emergency notice by the Ministry of Civil Affairs calling for transparency and social supervision over charity donations, but says far more needs to be done to allay public fears that funds may be embezzled.

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Beijing does not want the UN (or, for that matter, anybody else) challenging or otherwise calling into question the legitimacy of its ally's actions.

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For example, if a mobile account opened in Shanghai, and sparingly used for local calls, begins making numerous calls from Beijing to a few numbers in a distant western province, then it is likely that a phone thief is calling friends back home.

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