| The first phase of ticket sales for the 2008 Olympic Games has come to a close with more than 700,000 people booking over 4.9 million tickets, officials said on Sunday. "By 24:00 last night, we h |
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| Extreme summer storms of the sort that hit Beijing on Wednesday have become more frequent over the past decade and work is continuing on finding ways to protect Olympic events from them, officia |
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| Beijing has almost achieved its target of having 35 percent of the city speak a foreign language before the 2008 Games, but officials are still struggling with a generational gap that has left many Ol |
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| The U.S. Conference of Mayors on Monday passed a resolution supporting Chicago's bid to host the 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Games. The resolution encourages all Americans to support Chicago's bid a |
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| Beijing - Wu Jingguo, chairman of Chinese Taipei Olympic Committee (CTOC), said he would let Taipei deal with the controversial torch relay issue after Beijing Games organizers restated their firm sta |
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| HONG KONG - Tickets for the 2008 Olympics will go on sale on Tuesday in Hong Kong, said the China Travel Service (Hong Kong) Ltd (CTS) on Monday. As the official ticket agent of the Beijing 2008 Olymp |
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| All's well that ends well. This is especially true for athletes who retire after years of physical training and still want to lead a normal life. One example is Qi Kaili, a wheelchair fencing world c |
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| With the Beijing Olympics drawing closer, Chinese sports officials are getting more enthusiastic about learning English. At English First, the official language training services supplier of the Beiji |
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| Media accreditation for the 2008 Beijing Paralympics, which is being billed as a "Games of Equal Splendour" and is expected to attract an unprecedented degree of media coverage, is under dis |
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| BEIJING - Three hospitals in Beijing on Thursday announced the launch of outpatient services to help smokers quit in a move to mark the 20th World No Tobacco Day. The city was making efforts to create |
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| CHANGCHUN, Northeast China - Wushu, the world famous Chinese martial arts, will be featured at the Beijing Olympic Games in an optimal way, a sports official of China said here Wednesday. "Wushu |
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| Beijing will put a state-of-the-art wireless information service designed for visitors to the city during the 2008 Olympics to the test in the second half of 2007, according to the service operator Ch |
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| The Beijing Olympics are going to be smoke-free. Organizers were expected to announce an Olympic smoking ban Thursday to coincide with World No Tobacco Day. The move will put the 2008 Games in line wi |
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| Over half a million people have registered to become Games-time volunteers for the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games and Paralympic Games, according to a source attending the just-opened Beijing municipal co |
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| Beijing - If you're a musician or an aspiring one, you won't want to miss the chance to compose an Olympic theme song. A group of four primary school children from Tianjin, 150-kilometer southeast t |
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