Beijing has taken another step to clean its filthy air. Shortly before the start of the Olympics, new traffic rules have gone into effect. If they work, they're intended to cut traffic in half. NPR's ...

BEIJING - China has just been declared the world's second biggest economy, and now it has a monster traffic jam to match. Triggered by road construction, the snarl-up began 10 days ago and was 60 ...

(BEIJING) — If you think your commute is a headache, a recent traffic jam in Beijing might make you reconsider. Thousands of cars were stuck for hours on the 50-lane-wide G4 Beijing-Hong Kong-Macau ...

BEIJING — Half of Beijing’s drivers left their cars at home today and took public transportation instead on the first workday under new restrictions meant to clear this city’s notoriously polluted ...

BEIJING -- Traffic flowed a little smoother. Busy avenues had fewer cars. By nightfall, even the hazy sky had mostly cleared. So went the first workday under a government-imposed plan to reduce ...

BEIJING, May 15 (Reuters) - A vehicle drove into a crowd outside a Beijing primary school on Thursday and injured pedestrians, state-run China Newsweek wrote in an online post that was later deleted, ...

BEIJING -- With the Olympics less than three weeks away, Beijing began restricting car use and limiting factory emissions on Sunday in a final drastic effort to clear its smog-choked skies. Under the ...