China Olympics

CHENGDU: China is the next huge market for professional boxing, four of the most astute brains in fight promotion agreed last Friday. The country’s potential as an awakening pugilistic giant dawned at the summer Olympics in August when two of their amateur fighters won gold. That Eastern promise has electrified the flamboyant and loquacious Don King, who is promoting a professional boxing show …

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The Chinese have been called many things in recent years, but until now no one has tried to pin the label “Keynesian” on them. Like most things in China – the Beijing Olympics, industrialisation, cultural revolutions – when they decide they want to do something, they do it big. So it is with their Keynesian boost to the economy: some 4 trillion yuan, over $500bn. It is the equivalent of 7 per …

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China’s home-grown 3G standard, TD-SCDMA (Time Division Synchronous Code Division Multiple Access), received a limited trial…

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China blamed the Dalai Lama and his envoys Monday for the failure to make progress during recent talks, saying the Tibetan leader’s calls for greater autonomy masked his desire for the Himalayan region’s independence.

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South Korean teenager Yu-Na Kim paid tribute to Asian fans after winning her second International Skating Union Grand Prix title of the season in the Cup of China here on Saturday.

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China has proposed a regulation that could see all public sports facilities open for free every Aug. 8, with the date marking the opening of the 2008 Beijing Olympics possibly being designated as a national fitness day. The Legislative Affairs Office of the State Council, or Cabinet, on Wednesday published a draft national fitness regulation online to seek public views. Under the regulation, all …

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China has proposed a regulation that could see all public sports facilities open for free every Aug. 8, with the date marking the opening of the 2008 Beijing Olympics possibly being designated as a national fitness day.

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American doctors have told Liu Xiang that he needs surgery on the tendon injury that forced him out of the Olympics, but China’s star hurdler has yet to decide whether to go under the knife.

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China’s car manufacturing sector has been used to racing ahead at sometimes dangerous-looking speeds but now it may have to get used to life in the slow lane, at least for a while.

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China’s state media launched a scathing attack Tuesday on the Dalai Lama over recent comments expressing doubt over the usefulness of new talks between Beijing and his Tibetan government-in-exile. The Xinhua News Agency commentary issued Tuesday came as the sides were believed to be preparing for their first negotiations since Beijing hosted the Olympics in August. The Tibetan envoys arrived in …

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