The 2008 Beijing Olympics showcased China's reemergence on the world stage. In awarding those Games to China, the International Olympic Committee predicted the Olympics could improve human rights, and ...

Chinese Olympics officials broke their silence Thursday on Steven Spielberg’s decision to quit as artistic director of the Beijing Games. In a defiant statement, they said they regretted he wasn’t ...

The 2008 Olympic Games got underway on schedule at 8 p.m. local Beijing time, capping years of preparation and months of protests. World leaders including China’s President Hu Jintao, U.S. President ...

THE BEIJING GAMES PEOPLE PLAY LATE LAST WEEK, as expected, the world’s largest dictatorship was awarded the honor of hosting the 2008 summer Olympic games. Friday in Moscow, the International Olympic ...

BEIJING (Reuters) - China made an operating profit of over 1 billion yuan ($146 million) from the 2008 Summer Olympics, the National Audit Office said Friday. Most Olympic host cities make money from ...

Fourteen delegates from Peking and Tsinghua universities visited Princeton during the past three days in an effort to facilitate an educational exchange between the Chinese students and Princetonians ...

If the thousands of free condoms handed out to Olympic athletes this year are any indication, even the sourest of Olympic experiences are expected to end with a smile. Maybe even a smoke. After all, ...

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