Flag-waving crowds cheered the torch relay through Beijing’s Tiananmen Square on Wednesday as Olympic fever mounted.
Norway produced an opening 2-0 upset win over defending champions the United States as women’s football launched the Beijing Olympics on Wednesday.
China evacuated nearly 400 000 people as its southern coast braced on Wednesday for an approaching tropical storm.
”It’s the easiest arrival into China ever.” That was the comment of Team South Africa’s chef de mission, Hajeera Kajee, on Wednesday in Beijing.
Like countless other Beijing sex workers, ”Kelly” had viewed the Olympic rings as akin to dollar signs, expecting a big pay-day.
Haze settled over Beijing on Wednesday, two days before the start of the Olympic Games that have been beset by worries over pollution
Sun Dingguo rewarded himself with his 36th Olympic-themed tattoo after completing a nearly year-long journey across China.
China’s confidence is the subject of anxious debate in the European Union and the United States.
A strong earthquake rocked the western Chinese provinces of Sichuan and Gansu on Tuesday, near the site of May’s devastating quake.
Olympic organisers move to reassure the public and athletes after China’s deadliest suspected terrorist attack in more than a decade.
Attackers killed 16 police in a restive western region of China on Monday, in just the sort of violence Beijing had hoped to avoid.
Michael Phelps’s quest for gold and glory is just one bid for Olympic history that will unfold in Beijing’s futuristic Olympic aquatic centre.
Sports fans around the world have been swindled by an international internet scam which offered thousands of bogus tickets for the Beijing Games.
As thousands of visitors begin to arrive in China’s capital, large numbers of Beijing’s residents are disappearing from view.
Websites on sensitive subjects are accessible in the Chinese capital as the authorities lifted more internet restrictions ahead of the Olympic Games.
China’s Olympic security operation makes the country look like a police state, according to the artist behind Beijing’s spectacular new stadium.
A 5,8-magnitude earthquake hit south-west China on Friday, close to the area devastated by a massive tremor in May that left nearly 70 000 dead.
China is the world’s leading producer of energy from renewable sources and is on the way to overtaking developed countries.
The International Olympic Committee and the Chinese organisers BOCOG have agreed to lift all internet restrictions.
Czech ex-president Vaclav Havel and Nobel Peace Prize winner Desmond Tutu called on Olympic athletes on Thursday to speak up on human rights in China.
The Beijing Olympics will see the biggest anti-doping effort in history, but the omens for a drug-free Games are not good.
China lashed out on Thursday at the US for interfering in its affairs and insisted it would maintain restrictions on internet use during the Games.
A Chinese teacher has been sent to a labour camp over his internet photographs of schools that collapsed in the Sichuan earthquake.
From spitting and booing to full-scale riots, Chinese fans loom as a potential public relations disaster for the Beijing Olympics.
Foreign reporters will not have complete access to the internet during the Beijing Olympics, Games organisers said on Wednesday.
Scores of Chinese air passengers smashed computers and desks and clashed with police on Tuesday after a night stranded at an airport.
Tickets for the Beijing Games have officially sold out, setting off China’s own running of the bulls — ”yellow bull” scalpers who want big profits.
The International Olympic Committee will investigate apparent censorship of the internet service provided for media covering the Beijing Olympics.
During the Olympic Games Gao Benxu hopes to brush up his English by opening up his apartment to a family visiting from abroad.
Haze that has covered Beijing for the last few days cleared on Tuesday as rain fell 10 days before the Olympics begin.
The UN General Assembly and UN chief Ban Ki-Moon have called for a truce in hostilities around the world during the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing.
Beijing’s Olympic organisers are planning new emergency measures to reduce pollution after steps introduced a week ago failed to stop a grimy haze.