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.
Avoid questions about income. Steer clear of religion and politics. And please, don’t ask foreigners visiting for the Olympics about their sex life.
Olympic host city Beijing was shrouded in haze on Monday 11 days before the Games begin, raising anxieties about whether it can deliver clean skies.
Two female Chinese gymnasts, including a gold-medal favourite, might be too young to participate in the upcoming Beijing Olympics.
Beijing is considering banning 90% of private cars from its roads and closing more factories in a last-ditch bid to clear smoggy skies.
Olympic host Beijing has set up a sex determination lab to test female Olympic athletes suspected to be males, state media reported on Sunday.
Beijing was blanketed in smog on Sunday, as a senior Chinese environmental official warned more measures might be needed to clear the capital’s air.
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice urged China not to use security concerns over next month’s Olympics as a cover to crush political dissent.
Police struggled on Friday to control surging crowds of more than 50 000 people desperate to grab the last Olympic tickets in Beijing.
For struggling federations of non-Olympic fringe sports, the competition starts much earlier than August, as they compete for inclusion.
Wind power in China has taken off faster than the government planned. This year, policymakers had to double their wind-power prediction for 2010.
The Australian Open, Roland Garros, Wimbledon and the US Open. And this year, a fifth Grand Slam: the Beijing Olympics.
Beijing Games organisers will be hoping that competitors in the blue-riband event of athletics can dispel the sordid spectre of doping.
Retired swimming great Ian Thorpe has dismissed American Michael Phelps’s bid to best Mark Spitz’s record haul of seven golds at an Olympic Games.
A whole series of problems that have proven tough to fix could give visitors an Olympic-sized headache.
The first Olympic Games in the world’s most populous country highlight how difficult it has been over the years to keep sports and politics apart.
Traffic in China’s capital was lighter on Monday but hazy skies still hovered over the Olympic host city 18 days before the Beijing Games.