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.
Traffic restrictions came into force in Beijing on Sunday in a last-ditch attempt to turn the smoggy city into a pollution-free venue for the Games.
Beijing’s biggest single source of pollution has been sacrificed to the Olympics and, this week, media were invited to a triumphant autopsy.
From sweatbands to secret hand signals and even peeling oranges — human rights activists are seeking novel ways to circumvent tight security.
A road has finally come to Xin Cun, a hamlet perched on a sandy ridge beneath a blank grey sky in China’s Shaanxi province.
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China on Thursday rejected accusations by a representative of the Dalai Lama that it was not serious about talks over the status of Tibet.
Yu Pingju has little Olympic cheer. If the government demolishes her house, she may have to watch the Beijing Games on the street.
A United Nations panel granted China permission on Tuesday to import ivory from African government stockpiles despite opposition from some countries.
One ticket for the opening ceremony of next month’s Olympic Games in Beijing changed hands for up 000.
Zhou Zhilian is one of thousands of entrepreneurs for whom the Olympic Games represent more a missed opportunity than a chance to cash in.
Big nations like China and the US might grab all the Olympic medal attention, but the world’s sporting minnows plan to grab some of the limelight.
The drafting of of troops to battle a massive algae bloom in Olympic co-host city Qingdao shows China’s resolve to hold a successful sailing event.
China’s media marked one month before the opening of the Beijing Olympics on Tuesday, pledging to host a successful Games.
With a month remaining until the opening ceremony of one of the most scrutinised Olympic Games in history, the time has come for Beijing to deliver.
On a corner of the eastern extension of the Avenue of Eternal Peace, Beijing’s oldest and newest cultures lie in bizarre proximity.
Luo Jinquan is an unlikely poster boy for China’s spectacular economic development. A peasant from Yunnan, he he is a down-to-earth man of the soil.