China Olympics

Canada.comChina takes dog off the menu for OlympicsIndependent, UK - 5 hours agoBy Clifford Coonan in Beijing Man's best friend is off the menu in China for the Olympic Games: Beijing officials, fearful of offending Western …China orders restaurants to take 'fragrant meat' off menus during … USA TodayBeijing officials want dog meat off the menu during Olympics Irish TimesChina bans dog from Olympic menu BBC NewsChina Daily - SportingNews.comall 547 news articles

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Cultures Role at China OlympicsNew York Times, United States - 6 minutes agoBy DANIEL J. WAKIN; Compiled by Julie Bloom Culture will have a place in connection with China’s grandiose packaging of the Beijing Olympics. …

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Yahoo! EurosportChinese Olympic athlete Song gets four-year doping banguardian.co.uk, UK - 19 hours agoChina is determined doping scandals will not blight next month's Beijing Olympics but Song's punishment is light compared to the life bans handed out to …Chinese race walker banned for doping International Herald TribunePraise for China over walker's ban South China Morning Post (subscription)all 30 news articles

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Calgary HeraldOlympic gold, global powerLos Angeles Times, CA - 21 hours agoIt will be a proclamation that China has emerged from two centuries of domination by the imperial powers of the West. China's Olympic competitiveness will …An Essential Guide to the Chinese Olympics Available Now MarketWatchChina thinking small to wrest the overall title from the US Malaysia StarChina plans to make it extra special HinduTheChronicleHerald.ca - Wall Street Journal Blogsall 256 news articles

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China DailyBare-knuckle battle for China's Olympic dreamMacau Daily Times, Macau - 3 hours agoSo four years after communist China's first Olympic appearance, an angry Beijing boycotted the 1956 Games and than pulled out of the IOC entirely the …Press Conference: Persecuted Chinese Groups Unite to Call on … FOXBusinessChinese activists fear Olympic 'holidays' USA TodayNo Olympic Medal for Bush Wall Street JournalBaltimore Sun - Economistall 147 news articles

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China has executed two Uighurs and sentenced another 15 to jail for alleged terrorist links, the U.S. government-funded Radio Free Asia said in a report just days after Beijing warned of attacks aimed at the Olympics.

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AP photo Petitioners hold up documents listing their grievances near a petition office in Beijing Wednesday. As Beijing enters the final stretch for the Aug. 8-24 Olympics, the government is trying to shut out anyone it feels might mar an event meant to showcase China as a modern nation.

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China has foiled plans by five “terrorism” groups to target the Beijing Olympics, the official Xinhua news agency reported on Thursday, citing a public security official.

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China insisted on Thursday it faced a serious terror threat in its Muslim-majority far northwest ahead of the Olympics, as it announced 82 “suspected terrorists” had been detained there this year.

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