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BBC News
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China's human rights record is getting worse, not better, because of the Beijing Olympics, a rights group says.
According to Amnesty International, China is clamping down on dissent in a bid to portray a stable and harmonious image ahead of the Games i..
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BBC News
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The diversion of water for the Beijing Olympics threatens the livelihoods of millions of people, a senior Chinese government official has said.
The official, An Qiyuan, from Shaanxi province, told the UK's Financial Times newspaper that people in north..
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BBC News
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US film director Steven Spielberg has withdrawn as an artistic adviser at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing.
In a statement, he accused China of not doing enough to pressure its ally Sudan to end the "continuing human suffering" in the troubled western Darf..
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BBC News
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A new Roman Catholic bishop of Beijing has been consecrated in the Chinese capital, the first for over 50 years to have tacit approval of the Pope.
Father Joseph Li Shan, 42, was made bishop at a ceremony in a cathedral near Tiananmen Square.
His pr..
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BBC News
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Olympic chief Jacques Rogge says air pollution could lead to some events at the 2008 Beijing Games being postponed.
Speaking a year to the day before the start of the 2008 Games, the president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) said: "It is a..
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FOX News
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Chance of showers during the 2008 Beijing Olympics: 50 percent. But Chinese meteorologists have a plan to bring sunshine.
The meteorologists say they can force rain in the days before the Olympics, through a process known as cloud-seeding, to clean the..
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Washington Post
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Less than a decade ago, this city was an industrial wasteland. The sky could be seen from Beijing's ancient monuments less than a third of the year. Nearby lakes were so contaminated that they couldn't be used to water crops. And children were warned not..
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Reuters
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Rich nations are responsible for greenhouse gases fuelling global warming, China said on Tuesday, urging them to cut emissions and deflecting questions about whether Beijing will accept limits...
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BBC News
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China and Taiwan have agreed to establish offices in each other's territory to facilitate travel amid warming bilateral ties.
The agreement came as delegations from both sides met in Beijing for the first formal talks for almost a decade.
They are a..
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BBC News
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Chinese officials will hold talks with the Dalai Lama's representatives, state media says, in the first meeting since rioting broke out in Tibet last month.
Xinhua news agency quoted an official as saying a meeting would take place "in coming days"...
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MSNBC
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Contact and consultation’
One of the preconditions is that he not seek independence for Tibet. The Tibetan spiritual leader has repeatedly said he wants autonomy, not independence, but Beijing has expressed suspicion.
"It is hoped that through con..
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CNN
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Chinese officials will reportedly meet a representative of the Dalai Lama in coming days amid international pressure on Beijing to re-open dialogue with Tibet's exiled spiritual leader after recent violence in the Himalayan region. The state-run Xinhua ne..
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MSNBC
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Beijing will implement a series of temporary measures to stop construction and close heavy industries, all aimed at cleaning the city’s notoriously polluted air when the Olympics begin in four months.
All digging and pouring of concrete on constructi..
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BBC News
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China's foreign minister has strongly criticised "anti-China forces" he says are determined to politicise this year's Beijing Olympics.
Yang Jiechi said individuals and groups were trying to tarnish China's image.
In recent weeks human rights groups..
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BBC News
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Beijing has gone on the offensive following the resignation of Steven Spielberg as an artistic director to the Olympic Games.
State-run media has criticised the Hollywood director, saying his actions were naive and defied common sense.
At the same t..
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MSNBC
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A male panda at the Beijing Zoo once bitten by a drunk tourist attacked a teenager, ripping chunks out of the boy's legs, officials and a newspaper said Tuesday.
The 15-year-old had jumped over a 4-foot, 7-inch barrier surrounding an outdoor exercise a..
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Washington Post
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China's Olympic organizers said Monday that they will not allow the 2008 Beijing Games to be turned into a sounding board for foreigners with a political agenda. But even as they spoke, foreign demonstrators demanded the release of political prisoners and..
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BBC News
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China risks spoiling the legacy of next year's Beijing Olympics unless it takes urgent measures to stop human rights abuses, Amnesty International has said.
In a report, the group accused China's authorities of detaining activists and journalists witho..
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CNN
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Still a year away, the Beijing Olympics are poised to be the grandest Games of all. This has been called "China's Century," and the games will reflect the country's lofty ambitions when they open on August 8, 2008 -- a watershed of sports, politics and th..
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CNN
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Beijing police have detained a television reporter for allegedly fabricating an investigative story about steamed buns stuffed with cardboard at a time when China's food safety is under intense international scrutiny. A report directed by Beijing TV and p..
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