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.

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China: news

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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Dos and don'ts

Thursday, July 31st 2008, 0:23
related places: Beijing

An insider's guide to having a good time in Beijing
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Olympic spenders

Thursday, July 31st 2008, 0:14
related places: Beijing

Beijing invests huge sums - but with little debate
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Outcry over China-Niger oil deal

Wednesday, July 30th 2008, 23:42
related countries: Niger

Unions and civil rights groups in Niger call for an inquiry into a recent multi-billion dollar oil deal between China and Niger.
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Web curbs for Olympic journalists

Wednesday, July 30th 2008, 14:01

Journalists covering the Beijing Olympics will not have completely uncensored internet access, Chinese officials admit.
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Chinese man held for quake photos

Wednesday, July 30th 2008, 10:25

A teacher is sent to a labour camp for publishing images of schools that collapsed in the Sichuan quake, a group says.
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Iraq get green light for Beijing

Tuesday, July 29th 2008, 21:32
related countries: Iraq
related places: Beijing

The International Olympic Committee clears the way for Iraq to compete in the Olympics after lifting its previous ban.
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Uighur fighter

Tuesday, July 29th 2008, 16:30
related places: Xinjiang

Boxer travels from Xinjiang orchard to Beijing Games
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China defends human rights record

Tuesday, July 29th 2008, 11:33
related places: Beijing

Beijing rejects a report by Amnesty International saying that human rights have deteriorated in the run-up to the Olympics.
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Hackett tips Phelps to set record

Tuesday, July 29th 2008, 9:15
related countries: Aruba, United States
related places: Beijing, Phelps

Australian swimming great Grant Hackett says American Michael Phelps can eclipse Mark Spitz's record by winning eight golds at Beijing.
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China rights 'worsen with Games'

Tuesday, July 29th 2008, 8:28

Amnesty International says human rights in China have deteriorated in the run-up to its hosting of the Olympic Games.
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Changing Beijing

Monday, July 28th 2008, 16:27

Resident describes the transformation for the Olympics
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Jamaican Olympian tests positive

Monday, July 28th 2008, 16:06
related countries: Jamaica

The Jamaica Olympic Association's boss tells BBC Sport a member of its athletics team for the Beijing Games has failed a drugs test.
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Lingering pollution worries China

Monday, July 28th 2008, 11:43
related places: Beijing

China mulls fresh steps to tackle pollution, which remains a problem in Beijing as the Olympic Games approach.
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Twin pandas part of baby boom at Chinese reserve

Sunday, July 27th 2008, 12:00

Four giant panda cubs are born within 14 hours in China, boosting the population of the endangered species.
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In pictures

Sunday, July 27th 2008, 9:08
related places: Beijing

Ceremony marks opening of Beijing's Olympic village
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Beijing's Olympic village opens

Sunday, July 27th 2008, 6:28
related places: Beijing

The first athletes check into Beijing's newly-built Olympic village, with 12 days to go until the Games.
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China dismisses bus bombs claim

Saturday, July 26th 2008, 14:26

Chinese officials dismiss claims by a militant Islamist group that it was responsible for recent explosions on buses.
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IOC offers last chance for Iraq

Saturday, July 26th 2008, 11:24
related countries: Iraq
related places: Beijing

There is a slim chance that Iraqi athletes could take part in the Beijing games, the International Olympic Committee says.
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China paper censored for breach

Friday, July 25th 2008, 14:45

A Chinese newspaper falls foul of the authorities by printing an image from the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown.
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Scrum for final Olympic tickets

Friday, July 25th 2008, 8:56
related places: Beijing

Thousands of people descend on ticket booths in Beijing, to get their hands on the last batch of Olympic tickets.
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Leaving Beijing

Thursday, July 24th 2008, 17:22

Migrants asked to go before Olympics comes to town
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Iraq banned from Beijing Olympics

Thursday, July 24th 2008, 15:50
related countries: Iraq

The International Olympic Committee bans Iraq from competing at this summer's Olympic Games.
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China 'to allow Olympic protests'

Wednesday, July 23rd 2008, 11:24
related places: Beijing

China says it will allow demonstrations in three designated city parks during the Olympic Games in Beijing.
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