PM has promised to raise human rights issues in China
The Prime Minister is attending the final days of the Games - including the handover to London for the 2012 Olympics in the closing ceremony on Sunday.
He has also promised to raise the issue of
BEIJING When the Beijing Olympic Games kicked off two weeks ago with a four-hour spectacular, more than 840 million people in China tuned in, perhaps the largest television audience in history for a single event.
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Police on Thursday also detained eight Chinese would-be protesters, including a 14-year-old girl, as the group gathered to press their case in front of the compound that houses the offices and residences of China's top leaders.
Since the Games began,
BEIJING, Aug. 20 (Xinhua) -- A comprehensive plan on economic and social development is expected to lift the economy of China's Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region.
The State Council, the country's Cabinet, discussed and approved the plan during its
Zhongguo Tongxue She on 21 August carries an unattributed report on China starting special measures for one year to prevent cadres from using public funds for pleasure trips abroad, citing news from state bureau on prevention of corruption. It says the
BEIJING, Aug. 21 (Xinhua) -- President Hu Jintao of
China sent a message to Spanish King Juan Carlos on Thursday to mourn those
killed in Wednesday's deadly plane crash in Madrid, a Chinese Foreign Ministry
press release said.
In the message,
BEIJING BOUND: Prime Minister Gordon Brown speaks to the press on his flight to the Olympics
A defiant Gordon Brown yesterday said that Labour would go on to win the next general election — despite the political and economic turbulence of recent months.
It's time for Beijing's bureaucrats to turn their attention to the real problems facing the country
Journalists make poor prophets, but I think I'm on safe ground here: early next week the Chinese government will declare that the Olympics have been a
Hugh MacDonald, Canadian's reserve archer for the Olympics, was not a happy blogger.
Stuck in Canada nursing his frustrated Olympian ambitions, MacDonald was suddenly ordered to pack his bags to fly to Beijing, after one archer who had beaten him
Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao (R) meets
with Estonian Prime Minister Andrus Ansip on the sidelines of the Beijing
Olympic Games in Beijing, capital of China, Aug. 20, 2008.
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BEIJING, Aug. 20 (Xinhua) -- Chinese Premier