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Forecasters predict thunder and rain for the Olympic opening ceremony and warn that typhoons could disrupt events in other host cities.
Foreign reporters will not have complete access to the internet during the Beijing Olympics, Games organisers said on Wednesday.
Optimism is flooding back to Beijing two months before the Olympics, with organisers eyeing success despite fears over pollution, security and the potential for more PR blunders.
A devastating earthquake is the latest in a series of disasters and controversies that have turned what China had hoped would be an Olympic year of celebration into one of…
China said on Tuesday that protesters were out to hijack the Olympic Games as the torch relay embarked on a world tour that is certain to ignite demonstrations. Pro-Tibet…
A marathon contest longer and more complex than any race at the Olympic Games is unfolding behind the windowless facade of Digital Beijing. This secretive, slate-black tower…
China was facing a major international crisis linked to the Olympics on Thursday amid mounting pressure over its role in Darfur after United States filmmaker Steven Spielberg…
Beijing Olympic organisers said on Monday they backed a ban on political protests by athletes attending this year’s Games, amid an uproar over an effort to silence British…
The hardest part is yet to come for Beijing Olympic organisers, heading into 2008 with all plans in place but potential pitfalls aplenty in the run-up to the event in August.…
Beijing Olympics organisers apologised on Wednesday after suspending ticket sales following a booking system meltdown, their first major blunder in preparations for next year’s…
Beijing banned more than one million cars from its roads on Friday in a test run to improve air quality for the Olympics, easing gridlock but failing to lift a curtain of smog…
Beijing Olympic organisers said on Thursday they were confident that athletes would compete in clean air next year despite revelations that events could be postponed because of…
China has signalled during a week of high-level diplomatic wrangling over the Darfur crisis that it is unlikely to bend to global pressure and change its much-criticised policies…
United States swimming sensation Michael Phelps said in Beijing on Monday he hopes to race for eight gold medals at next year’s Beijing Olympics and out-do Mark Spitz’s Games…
Almost five years to the day after Beijing won the right to host the Olympics Games, workers downed tools for the last time at the Beijing Coking and Chemical Works. The flagship…
Chun In-Hyo was just eight years old when North Korea’s peerless leader Kim Jong-Il declared the 21st century the era of the information technology revolution. Now aged 12, Chun…
Young, clean-cut North Korean guards keep alert as South Koreans scramble up Mount Kumgang, a craggy tourist enclave inside the Stalinist state. They seem happy to welcome their…
Reports of the imminent death of the print media may be premature, or even dead wrong, as ”tabloid fever” has gripped the industry in a trend that is gaining speed, a media…
The future of a stalled diplomatic drive to end North Korea’s nuclear weapons programme depends largely on how it views United States President George Bush’s State of the Union…
One year after the North Korea nuclear crisis erupted, analysts expecting an early end to north-east Asia’s latest geo-political nightmare are thin on the ground. North Korea’s…
