2008 olympic games
International campaign unlikely to halt executions in China (AFP)
Thu, 01 Feb 2007 04:03:22 GMT | Yahoo! News
AFP - A campaign to push China to halt executions ahead of the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing is destined to fail despite recent judicial reforms, academics and activists say.
Over 320,000 People Apply For Olympic Volunteers
2007/02/03 15:31 | China.org.cn
The number of applications to be a volunteer at the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games has exceeded 320,000 since the recruitment program began in August last year, according to the Beijing Organizing Committee for the 2008 Olympic Games (BOCOG).
Beijing to boost disease control for Olympics (Reuters)
Sun, 08 Apr 2007 10:25:27 GMT | Yahoo! News
Reuters - Beijing will set aside thousands of
hospital beds for emergency use during the 2008 Olympic Games
in case of outbreaks of infectious diseases, state media
reported on Sunday.
Beijing to cabbies: Mind your manners (AP)
Wed, 18 Apr 2007 20:55:59 GMT | Yahoo! News
AP - Brush your teeth after eating garlic, be polite and don't smoke while driving. That was the message Wednesday to Beijing's taxi drivers, who are on the frontline of a push by city officials to improve transportation and unsnarl the capital's clogged, polluted highways as the 2008 Olympics approaches.
China cracks Olympic ticket scam (AFP)
Sun, 22 Apr 2007 05:25:24 GMT | Yahoo! News
AFP - Chinese police have arrested three people suspected of setting up a fraudulent website to sell bogus tickets to the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games, state press said Sunday.
China under fire from all sides a year ahead of Games (Reuters)
Tue, 07 Aug 2007 06:42:49 GMT | Yahoo! News
Reuters - Free Tibet activists on the Great Wall,
a barrage of critical rights reports, a shroud of smog hanging
over Beijing -- China's government must surely have imagined a
more auspicious one-year countdown for the Olympics.
Beijing to use water from rural areas to meet Olympic demand (AFP)
Wed, 03 Oct 2007 15:26:12 GMT | Yahoo! News
AFP - China announced Wednesday a 12.8 million dollar plan to step up water savings and pollution prevention efforts to boost Beijing's dwindling drinking supplies ahead of the 2008 Olympic Games.
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