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Moving swiftly to capitalize politically on the success of Chinese athletes at the Olympics, Beijing will send most of China?s gold medalists to Hong Kong next week.
China has detained six American pro-Tibet activists, including an artist who planned to project a giant laser beam onto a Beijing building at the Olympics, a group said Wednesday.
China has detained an American artist before he carried out a pro-Tibet protest involving a laser beam projected onto a Beijing building at the Olympics, an activist group said Wednesday.
The director of 'Princess Wencheng' hopes audiences will take away the message that Tibet has always been part of China. In a bid to show the world that it is peace-loving in its dealings with Tibet, Beijing will present a Tibetan-Chinese opera beginning Thursday as part of its Olympic spotlight on Chinese culture.
The Beijing bishop appointed by China's state-controlled Catholic Church said in an interview Wednesday that he hopes Pope Benedict XVI will visit his country and that relations with the Vatican are improving.
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BEIJING (AP) _ Hua Guofeng, who briefly ruled China as communist founder Mao Zedong's successor but was pushed aside as a prelude to reforms that launched an economic boom, died Wednesday at the age of 87, state-run media reported.
Police detained five American activists Tuesday after they unfurled a "free Tibet" banner near a key Olympics venue in Beijing, according to a pro-Tibet group.
China's foreign exchange regulator said Wednesday it will allow non-financial institutions in Beijing and Shanghai to offer currency exchange services to individuals.
BEIJING, Aug 20, 2008 (AFP) - China Wednesday told France to prudently deal with the "important and sensitive" issue of Tibet, two days before French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner was due to meet with the Dalai Lama.
Aug. 20 (Bloomberg) -- Hua Guofeng , who succeeded Mao Zedong in 1976 as China's Communist Party chairman and the nation's head of state, died today in Beijing, state news agency Xinhua reported without elaborating. He was 87.
BEIJING, China (AP) -- Two elderly Chinese women who applied to hold a protest during the Olympics were ordered to spend a year in a labor camp, a relative said Wednesday. Police later squelched a pro-Tibet demonstration.
China detained four more foreign pro-Tibet campaigners after a protest early Thursday near Beijing's main Olympic venue amid a "dramatic" increase in police surveillance, an activist group said.
SHANGHAI, China -- Chinese stocks surged Wednesday in their biggest gain in nearly four months on speculation Beijing plans new economic stimulus measures and other policies aimed at reviving the country's languishing markets.
U.S. citizens in China are having a hard time accessing Apple's iTunes Store now that word has surfaced that Olympic athletes have been listening to the pro-Tibetan album Songs for Tibet . The album was originally available exclusively through the iTunes Store, and...
By RAPHAEL G. SATTER LONDON (AP) -- A British diplomatic official says China has refused to allow convicted pedophile Gary Glitter entry into Hong Kong.
HONG KONG (Reuters) - China's huge state banks are poised to report strong profit growth for the first half in 2008, thanks to wider margins and strong fee income, but funding costs are expected to rise in the second half, eroding growth.
BEIJING - Hua Guofeng, who briefly ruled China as communist founder Mao Zedong's successor but was pushed aside as a prelude to reforms that launched an economic boom,...
China has raised electricity prices for the second time in two months to help utilities offset high coal costs, highlighting Beijing's struggle to ensure power supplies for its booming economy.
If only the Marlins-Giants game in San Francisco were today instead of tonight. That'd be a relief to Marlins catcher Matt Treanor. While Treanor and the Marlins are playing at AT&T Park in the China Basin area, his wife, Misty-May Treanor, and her partner, Kerri Walsh, will be playing for the Olympic gold medal in beach volleyball in Beijing.
An influx of workers from China is receiving a mixed reception in Africa, where people both admire and resent the hard-working newcomers' pursuit of wealth.
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