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Olympic torch continues journey in Jiangsu
Nanjing :: China | about 1 year ago
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008 Beijing Olympic Games The Olympic Torch Relay lit up Taizhou earlier Monday. And it's scheduled to get underway in Yangzhou later this afternoon. This will be the Olympic Flame's third and fourth stop in East China's Jiangsu Province.
Tags: Jiangsu Province, olympic torch
Tibet torch leg cut to one day
Beijing :: China | about 1 year ago
Credibility The relay, which was disrupted on its international leg by anti-Chinese protests over Tibet, was scheduled to go to Shannan Diqu on June 19 and Lhasa on the following two days. "According to my knowledge it's been cut to one day in Lhasa," Li Lizhi said...
Tags: tibet, olympic torch, olympics, china, protests, China Shortens Tibet
Torch passes through Suzhou
Nantong :: China | about 1 year ago
Credibility The Olympic flame entered the seventh mainland province Sunday, passing through Suzhou and Nantong. A total of 104 torchbearers ran along part of the 1,400-year-old Grand Canal, also known as the Beijing-Hangzhou Canal, which flows across Suzhou, Jiangsu...
Tags: olympic flame, Jiangsu Province, Taizhou, Yangzhou, olympic torch
Olympic torch relay carries on in Shanghai
Shanghai :: China | about 1 year ago
Credibility The Olympic torch finished its relay in Shanghai on Saturday as cares and concerns over the China's Wenchuan earthquake victims further highlighted the relay. Former world's best female footballer Sun Wen was the first to carry the torch at 7:35 a.m....
Tags: torch relay, olympic torch, Shanghai Stadium, Yangtze River, Shanghai Museum Square, beijing olympic, Suzhou, China
Mum and daughter conquer Everest
Melbourne :: Australia | about 1 year ago
Credibility TWO Sydney women have reached the summit of Mount Everest, creating history as the first mother-daughter team to climb the world's tallest mountain...The pair have endured bitter cold and several delays on their 8850 metre Himalayan ascent. A team spokesman...
Tags: mountain, himalaya, top of the world, tallest mountain, himal, daughter team, Nikki, olympic torch, tallest peak, pair having
Council bans Rudd's fiery painting
Melbourne :: Australia | about 1 year ago
Credibility Van Thanh Rudd's painting depicts a running Ronald McDonald carrying the Olympic torch past a burning monk. The Melbourne City Council says the painting, prepared especially for the exhibition, does not fit the brief and may breach copyright laws. God...
Tags: Melbourne City Council, Van Thanh Rudd, olympic torch, Ronald McDonald, Kevin Rudd, burns monk, mcdonald carrying, Banksy, torch past, prime minister
Dalai Lama: 'Don't Forget Tibet'
Beijing :: China | about 1 year ago
Credibility Tibet's spiritual leader is on an 11-day UK visit during which he will meet Prince Charles and Prime Minister Gordon Brown. "The economy is important, but human values are more important," he said to reporters on Wednesday. The Dalai Lama appealed to...
Tags: 14th Dalai Lama, Tibet, China, UK, Charles, Prince of Wales, Gordon Brown, human rights, china, 14th Dalai Lama, tibet, Iran-China, tibetan exiles, Sichuan Province, torch relay, news, olympic torch, Beijing
China torch relay resumes today
Beijing :: China | about 1 year ago
Credibility Ningbo, on the southern tip of the Yangtze River Delta, was originally scheduled to host the flame on Monday before the relay was suspended. There was no mention in the report of how the organizers will make up for the three days lost in the schedule,...
Tags: torch relay, China Mourns, olympic torch, Ningbo, Hangzhou Bay, Shanghai, Xinhua News Agency, relay resume, torch resume
Torch relay to resume after quake mourning
New Delhi :: India | about 1 year ago
Credibility The Beijing Olympic torch relay will resume on Thursday in the coastal city of Ningbo after three days of national mourning for the victims of the Sichuan earthquake, Xinhua news agency said. Ningbo, on the southern tip of the Yangtze River Delta, was...
Tags: Chinaï, Indiaï, Kailash Mansarovar Yatra, Tibet, torch relay, domestic reasons, olympic torch, receive pilgrims
Freedom Torch passes T.O.
Toronto :: Canada | about 1 year ago
Credibility Pro-Tibetan protesters converged on the Chinese Consulate yesterday to kick off the Tibetan Freedom Torch Relay and to pray for those suffering under Chinese rule in Tibet. With more than 100 people in attendance, the torch was carried through Toronto's...
Tags: tibet, Tibetan Freedom Torch, olympic torch, Toronto, china
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