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.
Beijing’s notoriously foul-smelling and poorly tended public toilets will feature some rarely seen luxuries during the Olympics.
A senior Chinese security official said the Beijing Olympics are threatened by sabotage and unrest, state media said on Friday.
When Coroebus of Elis won the first Olympic sprint in 776 BC, the result was scratched on to parchment and read out in market places.
China launched another attack on the Dalai Lama on Wednesday even as his envoys are expected to have a second day of secretive fence-mending talks.
A leading US congressman said on Tuesday that China was carrying out a tragic crackdown to smother dissent during the Olympics.
China’s devastating earthquake has left nearly two million people without a means to make a living, state press said on Tuesday.
United States Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Sunday met children made homeless by the devastating earthquake that hit south-west China.
Tropical storm Fengshen struck south China on Wednesday after tearing through the Philippines last week, bringing driving rain and uprooting trees.
The death toll from last month’s massive earthquake in south-west China is likely to exceed 80 000, state media reported on Tuesday.
The people of Hou Wang Ge Zhung believe that their small community, an hour’s drive from Beijing, has joined the ranks of China’s ”cancer villages”.
The Olympic torch was paraded on Saturday through the streets of Tibet’s capital, Lhasa — the scene of bloody riots in March.
China has released a total of 1 157 people who were involved in riots in the Tibetan capital, Lhasa, in March.
Hungry hordes craving a fix of diced chicken fried with chili and peanuts during the Beijing Olympics will be able to shout ”kung pao chicken!”
Disasters like the earthquake in China have highlighted the need for countries to develop better emergency communications plans, experts say.
When the people of Fengkai were warned that the rivers in their south China town were going to overflow, they knew what to do.
China’s involvement in Africa has elicited strong concern from its neighbours, but also criticism — not only from the West, but from Africa too.