Entries from Truth About China tagged with 'Olympics'
China stripped of 2000 gymnastics medal for underage athlete
By Chris Chase | for (UNCENSORED) Yahoo! SportsApril 28, 2010 China was stripped of a team all-around bronze medal from the 2000 Sydney Olympics on Wednesday because it fielded an underage gymnast. Dong Fangxiao was discovered to be 14 at...
China athletes 'faked their age'
By BBC World NewsMarch 16, 2009 Bone tests on teenage athletes in south China have shown that thousands had faked their age, often in order to keep competing in junior events. Tests on nearly 13,000 athletes found that more than...
After 5 Months, China to Try Would-Be Protester
By Edward Wong | THE NEW YORK TIMESFebruary 22, 2009 On Monday, a 62-year-old woman named Zhong Ruihua who traveled from southern China to Beijing during the Paralympics to conduct a protest is scheduled to go on trial for disturbing...
Would-Be Olympic Protester Sentenced to 3 Years in Prison
By Edward Wong | THE NEW YORK TIMESJanuary 16, 2009 A legal advocate who was arrested after applying to hold a protest in Beijing during the Olympic Games in August has been sentenced to three years in prison, said a...
China Irritated with 'Slanderous' U.N. Report on Rights
By Andrew Jacobs | THE NEW YORK TIMESNovember 25, 2008 The Chinese government reacted angrily on Monday to what it called a slanderous United Nations report that alleges systemic torture of political and criminal detainees. The government said the authors...
China listed U.S. athletes as possible troublemakers
By Christine Brennan | USA TODAYOctober 30, 2008 China's government was so concerned about the possibility of athlete demonstrations in the Beijing Olympics that it created a list of nine U.S. athletes and one assistant coach it thought might cause...
Chinese Activist Wins Rights Prize
By Jim Yardley | The New York Times October 24, 2008 Hu Jia, a soft-spoken, bespectacled advocate for democracy and human rights in China, was awarded the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought, Europe's most prestigious human rights prize, on...
China covered up milk scare to protect Olympics: critics
By Peter Harmsen | Agence France Presse | via UNCENSORED Yahoo! NewsSeptember 30, 2008 China knew about the contamination of milk products months ago but covered the scandal up to prevent it tarnishing the Beijing Olympics, according to journalists, rights...
International Gymnastics Federation investigats China's 2000 Olympics team
By Associated Press | International Herald TribuneSeptember 24, 2008 The investigation into the ages of China's gold-medal women's gymnastics team has been expanded to include members of the 2000 team that won a bronze in Sydney, the Associated Press has...
'Post-Olympic era' off to a rocky start in China
By CNN - The World's Largest NetworkSeptember 17, 2008 The Olympic flame is out, the smog is back, and traffic again clogs the roads. Welcome to what commentators are calling China's "post-Olympic era," in which euphoria over the Beijing Games...
China formula scare spreads to ice cream, yoghurt
By Ian Ransom | REUTERS | via UNCENSORED Yahoo! NewsSeptember 18, 2008 Hong Kong has ordered the recall of a Chinese company's products after milk, ice cream and yoghurt were found to be contaminated with melamine, the compound responsible for...
China's Rulers Stay Tough Despite the Olympics Hoopla
By Paul Mooney | U.S. News & World ReportAugust 26, 2008 China was intent on making a splash with the 2008 Olympics, which concluded on Sunday, and it did just that. The games are being described as the best ever,...
China 'blocks' iTunes music store
By BBC World NewsAugust 22, 2008 Apple iTunes customers in China fear the online store has been blocked after a pro-Tibet album featured on the site became a hit. The site has been unavailable inside China for the past week....
IOC's gymnastics probe falls well short
By Dan Wetzel - Yahoo! Sports | via UNCENSORED Yahoo! NewsAugust 22, 2008 At least when the NCAA runs one of its bogus investigations of Big State U, it sends some people out in the field, conducts some interviews and...
International Olympic Committee launches probe into He Kexin's age
Tim Reid in Washington, Jeremy Griffin and Jane Macartney in BeijingThe Times (United Kingdom)August 21, 2008 The International Olympic Committee has ordered an investigation into mounting allegations that Chinese authorities covered up the true age of their gold-medal winning gymnastics...
Too Old and Frail to Re-educate? Not in China
By Andrew Jacobs | The New York TimesAugust 21, 2008 In the annals of people who have struggled against Communist Party rule, Wu Dianyuan and Wang Xiuying are unlikely to merit even a footnote. The two women, both in their...
Protests still unwelcome in Beijing
By BBC NewsAugust 14, 2008 China has set aside three parks during the Olympics, to allow people to demonstrate. But, as the BBC's Michael Bristow finds out, the parks are empty and those who apply for permission to protest are...
Media peek into China gymnast's life
By John Leicester - Associated Press | Deseret NewsAugust 16, 2008 Brief encounter with medalist reveals totally sheltered life BEIJING -- For a few brief moments, it was as if a curtain had parted. We had one of China's young...
5 Deported From China After 'Free Tibet' Stunt
By GILLIAN WONG - Associated Press Writer | via ABC NewsAugust 15, 2008 Five foreign activists were deported Friday after they scaled a landmark building in Beijing to unfurl a "Free Tibet" banner over the top of an Olympic Games billboard...
The Olympics' age-old problem
By Dan Wetzel | Yahoo! Sports via UNCENSORED Yahoo! NewsAugust 15, 2008 For a long time, elements of the Chinese government itself thought women's gymnast He Kexin was born Jan. 1, 1994, which would make her 14 and too young...
ITV News journalist arrested by police in Beijing (Video)
ITV News journalist arrested by police in BeijingAugust 13, 2008 A longer, edited version of this video can be seen here Follow-up report from ITV can be seen by clicking here A related report with video from BBC can be viewed here China...
Chinese police rough up British TV crew at Olympics
by Charles Whelan | Agence France Presse via UNCENSORED Yahoo! NewsAugust 13, 2008 Chinese police roughed up a British TV crew and stopped them covering a pro-Tibet protest, witnesses said, in the latest case of interference with media freedom at...
Uneasy relations: China and the foreign press
By TIM SULLIVAN | Associated Press Writer via UNCENSORED Yahoo! NewsAssociated Press Writer Gillian Wong contributed to this reportAugust 13, 2008 Over at the media village, China is battering them with petty kindnesses. There's one person to open the door to...
Olympic ceremony singer faked performance
By Mure Dickie | FINANCIAL TIMES (United Kingdom)August 12, 2008 Organisers of the Beijing Olympics opening ceremony faked a young girl's rendition of a revolutionary anthem following a late intervention by top leaders of China's ruling Communist party, the event's...
Far from the glow in China, there are no games in Darfur
By DeWayne Wickham | USA TODAYAugust 12, 2008 What China wants during these Olympics it cannot be allowed to have. More than anything else, the emerging superpower wants to bask in the glory of its role as host of the...
Yao has delivered, now it's China's turn
By Adrian Wojnarowski | Yahoo! SportsAugust 10, 2008 BEIJING - On his way out of the game, Yao Ming thrust his fist through the air, and soon made that long, wobbly walk to the Chinese bench. The end of a...
Taiwan activist deported by China
By ASSOCIATED PRESSAugust 10, 2008 China has deported a pro-independence Taiwanese activist who wanted to cheer athletes from Taiwan at the Olympics. Yang Hui-ju says Beijing immigration officials searched her bag and confiscated her valid visa. Returning to Taipei on...
China's leaders steer Games wrong way
By Christine Brennan - USA TODAYAugust 07, 2008 The popular notion is that the story of the Beijing Olympic Games begins this Friday night, 8.8.08, as the saying goes, with the opening ceremony in the glowing-red Bird's Nest. But that's...
Let The Protests Begin: Groups Bash China
CBS NEWS / ASSOCIATED PRESSAugust 06, 2008 Foreign activists unfurled pro-Tibet banners at a key Olympics venue Wednesday and spoke out against China's rights record in Tiananmen Square, in the first attempts to use the white-hot spotlight of the games...
China To Athlete Activist: Stay Out!
By Sean Gregory | TIME Magazine in Partnership with CNNAugust 06, 2008 Last week, Joey Cheek was pumped. Over lunch in New York City, I talked to the wide-eyed Olympic champion about his upcoming trip to Beijing, where the ex-speedskater...
Under Olympics House Arrest
By RADIO FREE ASIAAugust 1st, 2008 Key rights advocates and social activists across China will spend the Olympics confined to their homes under round the clock surveillance. Some have been warned off talking to the media, while others cannot be...
China cracks down on nightlife
By Jill Drew - The Washington Post | The Seattle TimesAugust 02, 2008 Ryan Horne loves living in China. He arrived in March from Los Angeles to manage the opening of a club in the heart of the city's night-life...
Defiant China hits out at US, stands firm on Internet
By Charles Whelan | Agence France Presse | via UNCENSORED Yahoo! NewsJuly 31, 2008 A defiant China stood firm on controversies swirling around the Olympics on Thursday, hitting back at the United States over human rights criticism and insisting Internet...
Which websites has China blocked?
By Michael Bristow | BBC News, Main Press Centre, Beijing July 30, 2008 Internet censorship is nothing new to people logging on in China. The government blocks a number of sites it considers sensitive. It now appears that thousands...
China to censor Internet during Games: organisers
By Karl Malakunas | Agence France Presse | via UNCENSORED Yahoo! NewsJuly 30, 2008 China plunged into another Olympic controversy on Wednesday as it announced that the thousands of foreign reporters covering the Games would have to endure Internet censorship....
Residents forced to move for progress (video)
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Records Say Chinese Gymnasts May Be Under Age
By JERÉ LONGMAN and JULIET MACUR | The New York TimesJuly 27, 2008 China named its Olympic women's gymnastics team on Friday, and the inclusion of at least two athletes has further raised questions, widespread in the sport, about whether the...
China paper censored for Tiananmen photo
By Anita Chang | Associated Press - via (uncensored) Yahoo! NewsJuly 25, 2008 An aggressive tabloid newspaper has had its Web site censored and could face further punishment by China's media authorities for running a photograph from the still-taboo 1989...
China Presses Hush Money on Grieving Parents
By Edward Wong | THE NEW YORK TIMES 24 July 2008 The official came for Yu Tingyun in his village one evening last week. He asked Mr. Yu to get into his car. He was clutching the contract and a...
China's love of cigarettes thwarts pledge of smoke-free Olympics
By Andrew Jacobs - International Herald Tribune July 23, 2008 BEIJING: A smartly dressed man carried a lighted cigarette into the elevator of an upscale apartment building one recent morning, and something remarkable happened. A fellow passenger, a middle-aged matron...
China's Olympic muddle
The Christian Science Monitor July 18, 2008 Like a marathoner at the finish line, China seems whipped. It struggled two decades to host the Olympics that open in three weeks. It has spent about $50 billion, pumped up its athletes,...
Stand-off at Beijing 'nail house'
By Michael Bristow | BBC World NewsJuly 16, 2008 A Beijing family are refusing to move from their city centre home, despite a court order threatening to throw them out. Family members say they are not being offered enough compensation...
Satellite photos, eyewitnesses reveal Beijing selling weapons to Sudan, despite embargo
By AsiaNews.itJuly 14, 2008 An investigation by the BBC provides, for the first time, proof of Chinese jets and heavy weaponry used against civilians, sold in spite of the embargo. Beijing is not responding, while the UN is asking to...
Made in China: The planes and guns slaughtering Darfur's innocents
thisislondon.co.uk from the Evening StandardJuly 13, 2008 Military equipment and weapons made in China are being used against civilians in Darfur in violation of a United Nations arms embargo in the troubled region of Sudan. One Chinese-built army truck is...
China 'is fuelling war in Darfur'
By Hilary Andersson reporting from Darfur | BBC NewsJuly 13, 2008 The BBC has found the first evidence that China is currently helping Sudan's government militarily in Darfur. The Panorama TV programme tracked down Chinese army lorries in the Sudanese...
Taiwan nixes China move to change Olympic name
By Peter Enav - Associated Press Write | The Charleston GazetteJuly 12, 2008 TAIPEI, TAIWAN -- A senior Taiwan official has rejected China's attempts to change the name under which the island will compete in next month's Olympics, striking a discordant note...
China Expels British Citizen of Tibetan Descent
By Jill Drew | The Washington Post July 10, 2008 A British citizen of Tibetan descent was expelled from China this week as police clear the capital of anyone they believe might draw attention to political tensions during the Olympic...
China: Sarkozy Not Welcome, Chinese Netizens Rage
By Chua Chin Hon | The Straits Times - via MySinchew.comJuly 10, 2008 French President Nicolas Sarkozy touched off a storm of online disapproval in China Wednesday (9 July) with his decision to attend the 2008 Olympics opening ceremony -...
Around the World, Activists Assemble to Press China on Rights
By Robin Shulman | The Washington Post 08 July 2008 Marking the one-month countdown to the start of the Beijing Olympic Games, activists gathered here and in cities around the world Tuesday to call on China to ease crackdowns on...
Olympics haven't helped China's human rights: report
By Aileen McCabe | canada.com - where perspectives connectJuly 06, 2008 With just one month to go before the opening ceremony, it is increasingly obvious worldwide efforts to use the Beijing Olympics to hold China's feet to the fire on...
China media clamps slammed a month before Olympics
By James Pomfret | REUTERS | via yahoo!news UK&IrelandJuly 07, 2008 A month before the Olympics, China continues to severely breach its pledge to allow full media freedoms, harassing and restricting foreign journalists in Tibet and elsewhere, Human Rights Watch...
China's Inside Game
By April Rabkin | The New York TimesJuly 02, 2008 Last week, amid continuing calls from activists in Europe and the United States to boycott the Olympics to protest China's record on human rights, came a rare rebuke from the...
China Blocks U.S. Legislators' Meeting
By Jim Yardley | The New York Times July 02, 2008 Two United States representatives who were in Beijing to lobby for the release of more than 700 political prisoners had hoped to have dinner on Sunday with a group...
China blocks meeting with dissidents
U.S. News & World ReportJuly 01, 2008 Police blocked Chinese dissident lawyers from attending a meeting with two visiting U.S. lawmakers, the lawmakers and a human rights groups said Tuesday. Police either took the lawyers away or placed them under...
Chinese Riot Over Handling of Girl's Killing
By Jim Yardley | The New York Times 30 June 200 Thousands of people have rioted in a county in southwest China, setting fire to government buildings and overturning cars in angry protests over the official handling of the death...
Jailed and Tortured Fighting for Free Speech
By Ben Hurley | Epoch Times Australia StaffJune 27, 2008 Somewhere in the world, the warm fire crackles as giggling children adorn their Christmas tree with the colourful lights that William Huang made in jail. A United States living room...
China orders phone, Internet moratorium
By Joe McDonald, Associated Press Business Writer | The San Francisco Chronicle June 26, 2008 The government has ordered China's fast-growing phone companies to stop adding new customers in August so they can better focus on ensuring service for the...
Uyghur Mosque Demolished
Original reporting by Ding Xiao for RFA's Mandarin service. Service director: Jennifer Chou. Written and produced in English by Sarah Jackson-Han. RADIO FREE ASIA 23 June 2008 Chinese authorities have demolished a Uyghur mosque in remote and restive Xinjiang amid...
China's Visa Policy Threatens Olympics Tourism
By David Barboza | The New York Times June 24, 2008 The plush lobby of Beijing's Kerry Center Hotel is usually crowded with foreign guests, many of them listening to jazz and sipping martinis in Centro, the hotel's fashionable bar,...
Olympic Torch's Tibet Visit Is Short and Political
By Jim Yardley | The New York Times22 June 2008 The visit of the Olympic torch to the Tibetan capital, Lhasa, came and went in about two hours on Saturday. Leaders of the ruling Communist Party probably exhaled once the...
In China's Medal Factory, Winners Cannot Quit
By Juliet Macur | The New York Times June 21, 2008 FENGCHENG, China -- As a reward for winning an Olympic gold medal in flatwater canoeing four years ago, Yang Wenjun -- the son of peasant rice farmers -- was...
China Internet control unacceptable: European Commissioner
By Agence France Presse June 21, 2008 It is unacceptable for China to block Internet content, a European Commissioner said Friday, calling the Internet a free and open medium. "We say for instance to the Chinese, very clearly so, that...
China detains critic of schools collapsed by quake
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS | The New York Times18 June 2008 A retired Chinese schoolteacher who criticized the construction of schools that collapsed in last month's powerful earthquake has been detained, a Hong Kong-based human rights organization said Wednesday. Police detained...
Sensitive China Quake Photo Removed
By Cara Anna - The Associated Press - via ABC NEWSJune 15, 2008 A photograph hinting at shoddy school construction was pulled from an exhibition about last month's devastating earthquake, an apparent indication of rising government sensitivity over an issue...
Chinese Parents Call Off Quake Memorial After Official Warning
By Edward Wong | The New York TimesJune 13, 2008 Parents who lost children in a particularly horrific school collapse during the May 12 earthquake in Sichuan Province scrapped their plan for a one-month mourning ceremony on Thursday after local...
Reporters kicked out of China city where schools collapsed
By Dan Martin - Agence France Presse | via (uncensored) Yahoo! NewsJune 12, 2008 Police on Thursday kicked foreign journalists out of a city where the collapse of several schools in China's earthquake drew charges of corruption from parents of...
Spotlight on China, darkness in Tibet
By Dan Southerland | The Christian Science Monitor June 11, 2008 China's media covered the country's earthquake tragedy more openly than any past disaster. But the Chinese government still maintains a blackout over news from Tibet, which experienced its biggest...
China denies hacking U.S. government computer
By The Associated Press | USA TODAY 06 June 2008 China on Friday denied allegations that its operatives secretly copied the contents of a U.S. government laptop computer and used the data to try to hack into Commerce Department computers....
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Police drag parents away from quake protest
By Associated Press | via ABC World News June 03, 2008 DUJIANGYAN, China -- Chinese police dragged away more than 100 parents Tuesday while they were protesting the deaths of their children in poorly constructed schools that collapsed in last...
Tiananmen Square still an almost taboo topic
By Mary-Anne Toy | The Sydney Morning HeraldJune 04, 2008 Of all the taboos in modern China, the violent quelling of the Tiananmen Square democracy protests on June 4, 1989, remains the most sensitive. Nineteen years later, China is now the...
Stern rules for foreigners at Olympics
By USA TODAY June 02, 2008 Foreigners attending the Beijing Olympics better behave -- or else. The Beijing Olympic organizing committee issued a stern, nine-page document Monday that covers 57 topics. Written in Chinese only and posted on the official...
China Blocks Thousands of Hindus From Tibet Pilgrimage
By Heather Timmons and Hari Kumar | The New York TimesMay 21, 2008 The Chinese government is refusing to issue visas to Hindus trying to make the traditional summer pilgrimage to what they hold to be the home of Lord...
Why China's buildings crumbled
By Geoffrey York | The Globe and Mail (Canada) May 15, 2008 The bodies of the children were lined up in a long row in the mud of a basketball court, just outside the flattened school. Every few minutes, another...
Africans Forced to Leave China on New Visa Rules, Post Reports
By Aaron Pan | Bloomberg News May 11, 2008 Africans living in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou are being forced to leave the country because of new visa policies, the South China Morning Post reported, citing an unidentified spokesman...
Child Labor Rings Reach China's Distant Villages
By David Barboza | The New York Times May 10, 2008 The mud and brick schoolhouses in the lush mountain villages of this remote part of southwestern China are dark and barebones in the best of times. These days, they...
China reluctant to prod Myanmar over aid
By JOE McDONALD, Associated Press Writer | San Francisco ChronicleMay 10, 2008 China faces mounting appeals to prod cyclone-ravaged Myanmar to allow access to foreign aid workers but is giving no sign it will use its influence over its ally,...
China won't guarantee Web freedom over Olympics
By Ben Blanchard - REUTERS | via (UNCENSORED) Yahoo! NewsMay 08, 2008 China will not guarantee it won't censor the Internet over this summer's Beijing Olympics, nor can it guarantee to stamp out piracy of Olympic-branded goods, officials said on...
Chinese Suppliers Suffer with Carrefour Boycott
By The Epoch TimesMay 04, 2008 After the French protest at the Beijing Olympic Torch relay, official Chinese media have been highly critical of France. Since then, a retaliatory boycott on French goods has been advocated, resulting in a Chinese...
China 'underwriting' atrocities in Darfur: Farrow
By Agence France Presse | via UNCENSORED Yahoo! News May 01, 2008 US actress and activist Mia Farrow accused China on Friday of "underwriting the atrocities in Darfur" as she tried to put pressure on Beijing to end years of...
Senator: China plans to spy on Olympic hotel guests
By SAM HANANEL, Associated Press Writer | via uncensored Yahoo! News May 01, 2008 A U.S. senator accused the Chinese government on Thursday of ordering U.S.-owned hotels in China to install Internet filters that can spy on international visitors coming...
China Rights Lawyers Pressed Under Party Thumb: Report
By REUTERS | The New York Times April 29, 2008 China's lawyers face official harassment, meddling, even jail for defending suspects and sensitive causes, a rights group said in a new report, adding to criticism of the nation's rights record...
'Free Tibet' flags made in China
By BBC World News April 28, 2008 Police in southern China have discovered a factory manufacturing Free Tibet flags, media reports say. The factory in Guangdong had been completing overseas orders for the flag of the Tibetan government-in-exile. Workers said...
Chinese Embassy Secretly Organizes Overseas Chinese Students to Support Olympic Torch Relay in Japan
By Wang Riyue | The Epoch Times April 25, 2008 Chinese Student and Scholar Associations (CSSA) in Japanese universities have received notice from the Chinese Embassy, asking them to mobilize all possible manpower to Nagano on April 26 to support...
Activists criticize Beijing Olympics sponsors over Darfur, plan protests
By JOE McDONALD, AP Business Writer | via (uncensored) Yahoo!PHILIPPINES news April 24, 2008 An activist group that wants peace in Darfur said Thursday it will organize protests against Beijing Olympics sponsors that it said are failing to use the...
Bracing for Games, China Sets Rules That Complicate Life for Foreigners
By Andrew Jacobs | The New York Times 24 August 2008 In little more than 100 days, China will open its arms to a deluge of foreigners, many of whom will be pleasantly surprised to find a dizzying array of...
Protesters confront American outside French store in China
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS | via The New York Times April 23, 2008 European business officials warned Wednesday that anti-French protests in China could spark a backlash against Chinese exports, while reports surfaced that protesters had confronted an American outside...
China Falls Short on Vows for Olympics
By Jill Drew and Maureen Fan | The Washington PostApril 21, 2008 China has spent billions of dollars to fulfill its commitment to stage a grand Olympics. Athletes will compete in world-class stadiums. New highways and train lines crisscross Beijing....
Nouvelles manifestations anti-françaises
France télévision - france2.comLe 20 avril 2008 De nouvelles manifestations anti-occidentales ont eu lieu dimanche dans plusieurs ville de la République populaire. Les rassemblements de dimanche Plus d'un millier de personnes se sont rassemblées devant le magasin Carrefour de la...
Anti-French rallies across China
By BBC World NewsApril 19, 2008 Protesters in several Chinese cities have gathered to demand a boycott of French products and denounce campaigns for Tibetan independence. Hundreds of people demonstrated in cities including Beijing, Wuhan, Hefei, Kunming, and Qingdao -...
China Steps Up Crackdown in Tibet
By RADIO FREE ASIA 17 April 2008 China is intensifying its crackdown on Tibet after the largest anti-Chinese protests there in almost 50 years. But many monks have refused to fly the Chinese flag on monastery roofs, sources in China...
China seals gateway into Tibet, stops refugee flow out
By DENIS D. GRAY Associated Press Writer | ABC News April 17, 2008 FRIENDSHIP BRIDGE, Nepal-Tibet Border Three lithe Chinese security men shift silently into position so they are anchored abreast exactly midway across Friendship Bridge, high above a Himalayan river...
Leading Tibetan Writer, Performer, Producer Arrested
By RADIO FREE ASIA April 15, 2008 Chinese authorities in Tibet have arrested a leading Tibetan writer, television producer, and performer in the midst of a major crackdown on anti-Chinese protests in the region. Plainclothes state security officers escorted Jamyang...
China's loyal youth
By Matthew Forney | International Herald Tribune April 15, 2008 Many sympathetic Westerners view Chinese society along the lines of what they saw in the waning days of the Soviet Union: a repressive government backed by old hard-liners losing its...
Beijing Drops Restaurants in Smoking Ban
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS | The New York TimesApril 14, 2008 Beijing has backtracked on a proposed public smoking ban ahead of this summer's Olympics, with a city official saying Monday that restaurants will no longer be included due to...
China's Games stray off course
By Scott Pitoniak | Rochester Democrat and Chronicle April 13, 2008 I couldn't help but feel a tinge of sadness recently as I watched London police wrestle with a man trying to put out the Olympic torch with a fire...
British Leader Skipping Opening Ceremony
By Bryan Mitchell - Associated Press Writer | Chicago TribuneApril 10, 2008 British Prime Minister Gordon Brown will skip the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics.He became the second major world leader after German Chancellor Angela Merkel to decide to...
China's multiple victims include its own public
By Howard W. French | International Herald Tribune April 10, 2008 I had hardly finished writing a news article on repression in Xinjiang last week when word reached me of the violent suppression of yet another protest by Tibetan monks...
Chinese Police Fire on Tibetan Protesters, Death Toll Unknown
By RADIO FREE ASIA April 04, 2008 Paramilitary police in China's southwestern Sichuan province fired on a crowd of Tibetan protesters demanding the release of two detained monks, killing and wounding an unknown number of people, Radio Free Asia (RFA)...
Foreign Media in China Harassed on Tibet
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS | The New York TimesApril 07, 2008 Western reporters in China have received harassing phone calls, e-mails and text messages, some with death threats, supposedly from ordinary Chinese complaining about alleged bias in coverage of recent...
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