News: China

We have started to collect the most important news related to China in November 2005. By default, most recent news are listed first.

World news related to China – overview

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• February 9th 2006 – December 26th 2005
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China: news

Empty Olympic seats cause concern

Tuesday, August 12th 2008, 6:42

Chinese officials admit they are worried about empty seats at some Olympic events, hiring volunteers to fill empty venues.
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China capture team gymnastic gold

Tuesday, August 12th 2008, 5:02
related countries: Japan, United States

China's men deliver a stunning performance to claim the team gymnastics title ahead of Japan and the United States.
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Third gold for unstoppable Phelps

Tuesday, August 12th 2008, 3:00

Michael Phelps claims his third gold medal of the Beijing Olympics with victory in the men's 200m freestyle swimming.
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Live - Olympics

Tuesday, August 12th 2008, 0:24
related countries: United Kingdom
related places: Beijing

American Michael Phelps wins the third of a possible eight golds and China take gold in the men's team gymnastics.
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Olympic curbs

Monday, August 11th 2008, 23:33
related countries: India

Chinese factory shutdowns cause Indian shortages
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Olympics day three as it happened

Monday, August 11th 2008, 14:28
related countries: Hong Kong
related places: Beijing

Andy Murray crashes out in the first round of the men's singles tennis, but Great Britain win gold and bronze in the women's 400m freestyle.
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Inflation fears hit China shares

Monday, August 11th 2008, 9:53
related places: Shanghai

Shanghai's main stock index slides to a 19-month low on fears that rising inflation will damage company profits.
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Clash of the titans

Sunday, August 10th 2008, 21:23
related countries: United States

China and US battle it out in Olympic basketball
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Star-studded US overwhelm China

Sunday, August 10th 2008, 19:59
related countries: United States

The United States beat China 101-70 in one of the most eagerly awaited events of the Olympic Games.
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Chinese pair found dead in UK

Sunday, August 10th 2008, 19:04
related countries: United Kingdom
related places: Newcastle

A murder investigation is under way in Newcastle after the bodies of a Chinese man and woman are found in a flat.
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Live - Olympics

Sunday, August 10th 2008, 15:58
related countries: United States

Nicole Cooke wins gold for Great Britain in the women's road race as the USA face China in the basketball.
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Phelps claims first Beijing gold

Sunday, August 10th 2008, 12:46
related places: Beijing

Michael Phelps claims the first of the eight gold medals he has targeted after winning the 400m individual medley in a world record time.
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Sprinter Thanou barred from Games

Sunday, August 10th 2008, 11:18

Greece's Katerina Thanou is excluded from the Beijing Games after the IOC refused to accredit her.
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Deadly violence hits west China

Sunday, August 10th 2008, 9:08
related places: Xinjiang

Seven militants and a security guard are killed after a series of bombings in China's north-western region of Xinjiang.
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US tourist dies in Beijing attack

Saturday, August 9th 2008, 10:34
related countries: United States
related places: Beijing

A Chinese man stabs a US tourist to death and seriously injures another as the Olympics get under way in Beijing, officials say.
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Chen lifts first gold for China

Saturday, August 9th 2008, 6:34

Weightlifter Chen Xiexia gives the hosts their first victory of the 2008 Olympics with a win in the women's 48kg event.
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Live - Olympics

Saturday, August 9th 2008, 3:55
related places: Beijing

Hosts China win their first two golds of the Olympics, while Britain's Craig Fallon misses out on bronze in judo.
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US-China spy jailed for 15 years

Friday, August 8th 2008, 23:20
related countries: United States, Taiwan
related places: Beijing

A Taiwan-born US national gets a 15-year jail term for obtaining secret military documents and passing them to Beijing.
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Spectacular opening for Olympics

Friday, August 8th 2008, 16:46

China opens the 2008 Olympic Games with a lavish ceremony in Beijing, watched on TV by more than one billion people.
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Games begin with spectacular show

Friday, August 8th 2008, 16:05
related places: Beijing

Beijing opens the 2008 Olympic Games with a feast of light and sound inside the Bird's Nest stadium.
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Live - Olympics

Friday, August 8th 2008, 11:30
related places: Beijing

The 2008 Olympics begin with a lavish opening ceremony in front of a 90,000 crowd at Beijing's Bird's Nest Stadium.
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Angry Tibetans protest in Nepal

Friday, August 8th 2008, 7:46
related countries: Nepal

Hundreds of angry Tibetans protest in Nepal as China prepares to open the Olympics in a few hours.
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Chinese growth 'set to stabilise'

Friday, August 8th 2008, 6:27

The Chinese economy is set to stabilise, official figures suggest, after seeing a sharp fall in growth in the first half of the year.
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Beijing pollution efforts hailed

Thursday, August 7th 2008, 17:39
related places: Beijing

IOC President Jacques Rogge praises Beijing's efforts to cut pollution, saying there is no risk to the health of Olympic athletes.
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Olympic dream

Thursday, August 7th 2008, 17:26

Why the Games are so important to the Chinese people
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Messi scores in Argentina victory

Thursday, August 7th 2008, 13:45

Lionel Messi scores Argentina's Olympic opener in a 2-1 defeat of the Ivory Coast after his club Barcelona allow him to play.
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Bush chides Beijing over rights

Thursday, August 7th 2008, 11:31
related countries: United States
related places: Asia

The US president uses a keynote speech in Asia to criticise China's human-rights record, on the eve of the Beijing Olympics.
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Olympic relay reaches Great Wall

Thursday, August 7th 2008, 2:08

China parades the Olympic torch along its famous Great Wall through the morning mist, on the eve of the Beijing Games.
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Musharraf to attend Beijing Games

Wednesday, August 6th 2008, 17:41

Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf will attend the opening ceremony of the Olympics after all, the foreign ministry says.
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Three killed in China aftershock

Wednesday, August 6th 2008, 12:09

Tuesday's powerful aftershock in Sichuan province killed three people and damaged more than 3,000 houses, China says.
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Olympic relay in Beijing climax

Wednesday, August 6th 2008, 9:32
related places: Beijing

The Olympic torch is carried through Beijing on the final leg of its global relay, ahead of Friday's opening ceremony of the Games.
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Olympic fever

Tuesday, August 5th 2008, 23:28

People from across China can't wait for the Games to begin
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New quake hits Chinese province

Tuesday, August 5th 2008, 11:51

An earthquake rocks China's Sichuan province, devastated by a powerful quake three months ago.
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China confident of safe Olympics

Tuesday, August 5th 2008, 11:32

China stresses the Beijing Olympics will be safe, following an attack that killed 16 policemen in the north-west of the country.
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Ten to watch

Tuesday, August 5th 2008, 8:17

China's track hero leads our picks
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Hidden Beijing

Tuesday, August 5th 2008, 0:38

The best places to eat, drink and shop in China's capital
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Uphill struggle

Monday, August 4th 2008, 16:14

Poll suggests China has much to do to win over the world
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Chinese border assault kills 16

Monday, August 4th 2008, 15:13
related places: Xinjiang

Sixteen Chinese policemen die in an attack on a border post in the north-western region of Xinjiang, state media say.
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Smog obscures Beijing's stadium

Monday, August 4th 2008, 14:10
related places: Beijing

Heavy smog shrouds Beijing's main Olympic Stadium, just four days before the Games are due to begin.
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Quake-hit Sichuan welcomes torch

Sunday, August 3rd 2008, 8:56

The Olympic torch relay reaches China's Sichuan province, where tens of thousands of people died in an earthquake in May.
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Freedom to travel in China

Saturday, August 2nd 2008, 23:33

Hugh Sykes is able to go exploring in China unescorted in the run-up to the Olympics.
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IOC denies deal on internet curbs

Saturday, August 2nd 2008, 14:28
related places: Beijing

Olympic organisers deny agreeing to curbs on internet access for foreign journalists at the Beijing Games next week.
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Northern hemisphere looks up for total eclipse

Friday, August 1st 2008, 14:36
related countries: Canada, Russia

Large parts of the Northern Hemisphere have fallen into shadow under the path of a total eclipse of the Sun.
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China's Hu speaks out on Olympics

Friday, August 1st 2008, 12:11

With one week to go to the Beijing Olympics, Chinese President Hu Jintao urges people not to politicise the Games.
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China lifts more internet curbs

Friday, August 1st 2008, 10:27

China unblocks more websites in a bid to end a row over internet access for Olympic journalists, a week before the Games open.
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China's 'rapid renewables surge'

Friday, August 1st 2008, 9:33

Rapid investment in low carbon technologies catapults China to second place in the global renewables ranking, a report shows.
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Injured Sharapova out of Olympics

Thursday, July 31st 2008, 21:26

World number three Maria Sharapova will miss the Beijing Olympics because of a shoulder injury.
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Beijing unblocks BBC Chinese site

Thursday, July 31st 2008, 14:56

Chinese authorities appear to have unblocked the BBC's Chinese language website, amid a row over internet censorship.
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Hurdles facing Beijing protesters

Thursday, July 31st 2008, 8:02
related places: Beijing

Activists who want to protest at the Beijing Olympics face bureaucratic hurdles and little information, the BBC finds.
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Video of Olympic rehearsal leaked

Thursday, July 31st 2008, 8:00
related countries: North Korea

A South Korean TV station broadcasts a tape of a dress rehearsal for the Beijing Olympics, angering Chinese organisers.
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