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Still, subsequent terror strikes in Xinjiang were successfully contained and Beijing and China's other venue cities were not attacked. ...  

Chinese athletes who won gold medals at this summer's Beijing Olympics are to be paid about $51000 each (£28000), according to Chinese state media. ...  

Chief Financial Officer Dai Houliang told reporters on Tuesday that Beijing will continue to offer tax rebates on imported products in the third quarter, ...  

Chinese President Hu Jintao's two-day visit to South Korea came less than 24 hours after the closing of the Beijing Olympics and as regional powers press ...  

For domestic consumption, the Beijing games were a uniting vision in a country undergoing rapid change. The squads of athletes, poised atop medal-award ...  

Mr Usain Bolt's corporate sponsors, Digicel Jamaica, must be commended for insisting that his father, Mr Wellesley Bolt, make the trip to Beijing, China to ...  

That censorship was in the spotlight during the Olympic Games in Beijing, which ended Sunday. To help win the right to host the Games, China had promised to ...  

By KI MAE HEUSSNER The Beijing Olympic Games are over, but the questions continue over whether some medal-winning Chinese gymnasts were too young to compete ...  

August 19, 2008 -- Peking duck is an Olympic sellout. Cafeterias in the athletes village have doubled their supply to 600 ducks a day, and they're still sending...  

Shahriar said Olympics has given a chance for China to expose its culture, history to the world. "Because of the Olympics, Beijing becomes a household-known ...  

August 18, 2008 -- It was dramatic. Mesmerizing. Utterly unforgettable.And that was just the opening ceremony 10 days ago, setting an appropriate stage for what Michael...  

He started out fighting for the rights of HIV/AIDS patients but his scope expanded after the government gave little ground and he began to see China's ...  

August 17, 2008 -- Po-faced police are 'scaring foreigners' Political banners are meantto be banned in Beijing, especially on the podium, but the one unfurled after...  

By John Ruwitch BEIJING, Aug 23 (Reuters) - Brazil showed why they are the world's top-ranked team by trouncing the United States to capture the Olympic ...  

The host took an unbeatable lead atop the gold-medal list on the second-to-last day of the Beijing Games by winning canoe and table tennis titles to lift ...