A coverage of the 29th Summer Olympic Games.
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London is to play host to the 30th Olympiad come 2012, and it plans to stage the g...
Beijing dazzled the world with its clockwork efficiency during the Olympics, and t...
The 29th Olympiad has officially ended in Beijing, putting politics once again at ...
While Olympic organisers have tried hard to put a lot of gloss over the Beijing ga...
Despite the demise of communism around the world in the last three decades China's...
Host nation China has amassed a virtually unassailable lead in the medals table wi...
China's former paramount leader first spoke of socialism, Chinese-style, more than...
The rivalry between China and Taiwan has separated families for decades, although ...
Despite the recent thawing of ties between Taiwan and China, the island's athletes...
For the elite athletes gathered in Beijing, competing in the Olympics has become m...
In any Olympic games most of the attention and money go to winning athletes from c...
Group dancing is a popular form of exercise and provides a social outlet for many ...
Cui Jian is known as the godfather of Chinese rock music whose song Nothing to My ...
An army of volunteers has helped to ensure the smooth running of the Beijing games...
The Beijing games is being praised for having efficient organisation, but that giv...
Three months since a powerful earthquake hit China's Sichuan province, leaving mor...
The opera is a Chinese art form that almost did not survive the country's cultural...
The radical design of China's National Stadium, known as the Bird's Nest, has capt...
Most Olympic visitors will leave Beijing unaware that water is this city's most cr...
There were plenty of celebrities who carried the Olympic torch during its long rou...