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Olympic torch relay underway in Taiyuan
Yuncheng :: China | about 1 year ago
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008 Beijing Olympic Games The torch relay for the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games is underway in Taiyuan, the provincial capital of Shanxi province. The starting ceremony was at about 8 am Beijing Time, at a square in front of the Jinci Temple.
Tags: Beijing Time, beijing olympic, olympic games, Shanxi, torch relay, olympic torch, shanxi province, yuncheng city
World › China reopens Tibet to foreign tourists
Lhasa :: China | about 1 year ago
Credibility Chinese authorities have reopened Tibet to foreign tourists, three months after it was hit by riots and antigovernment protests, state-run media reported. The first overseas visitors, two Swedes, were due to arrive in Lhasa on Wednesday, the official...
Tags: Tibetan, foreigners tourists, torch relay, Google China, paralympics torch, Beijing Paralympic, Lhasa, international leg, olympic torch, autonomous region
Blue skies greet relay around Qinghai Lake
Xining :: China | about 1 year ago
Credibility Blue skies, white clouds and the diamond shades of Qinghai Lake combined yesterday to create a picturesque backdrop for the latest leg of the Olympic torch relay around China's largest saltwater lake. The two-hour run covered 6 km and involved 162 torchbearers,...
Tags: Qinghai Lake, Qinghai Province, olympic flame, torch relay, China, resort capital, olympic torch, summer resort, qinghai leg, beijing olympic
Dalai Lama censured at Olympic Tibet relay
Lhasa :: China | about 1 year ago
Credibility The torch relay in Lhasa lasted for just over two hours, much shorter than had been planned before the unrest in Tibet in March. It went off without protests along a route lined with a heavy security presence. "We will certainly be able to totally smash...
Tags: Tibet, Lhasa, 14th Dalai Lama, olympic torch, torch relay, months ago, China
Olympic torch relayed along Qinghai Lake
Xinhua :: China | about 1 year ago
Credibility 008 Beijing Olympic Games The Olympic torch has made its way along Qinghai Lake. China's largest salt water lake is the second stop of the three-day leg of the Olympic torch relay in Qinghai province...Dagar, vice president of the Qinghai University Affiliated...
Tags: Qinghai Lake, Cega, tibetans antelope, olympic torch, Qinghai Province, Qinghai University Affiliated Hospital, torch relay, Northwest China, Hol Xil Nature Reserve, olympic flame
China denounces Dalai Lama on torch relay
Lhasa :: China | about 1 year ago
Credibility We will certainly be able to totally smash the splittist schemes of the Dalai Lama clique," he added, in front of the Potala, traditional seat of the Dalai Lama, the most powerful figure in Tibetan Buddhism. China accuses the exiled Dalai Lama of inciting...
Tags: tibet, Tibet Autonomous Region, Tibetan Buddhism, China, olympic torch, Lhasa, 14th Dalai Lama, torch relay, tibetans capital, Chinese Communist Party
Olympic torch relay kicks off in Qinghai
Beijing :: China | about 1 year ago
Credibility 008 Beijing Olympic Games On Sunday morning, the Olympic torch relay kicked off in Golmud, in northwestern China's Qinghai Province. All the torchbearers in Qinghai are from minor nationalities. The first runner Cega is director of the Hol Xil Natural...
Tags: olympic torch, torch relay, Qinghai Province, People's Republic of China, China Daily, NW China, Beijing Organizing Committee, beijing olympic, Tibetan, relay kicks
In Tibet, Torch Relay Under Tight Security
Lhasa :: China | about 1 year ago
Credibility An Olympic torchbearer, Gonpo, a 75-year-old Tibetan mountaineering hero, sets out on a relay through the streets of Lhasa, capital of southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region on Saturday, June 21, 2008. June 21 -- Under tight security Saturday, the...
Tags: tibet, china, olympic torch, Lhasa, Tibet Autonomous Region, Tibet Short, torch relay, Tibetan, Tibet University, news
Olympic torch starts tense relay in Tibet
Lhasa :: China | about 1 year ago
Credibility The 9.3 km relay kick-started from Norbulingka, known as the Summer Palace of the Dalai Lama [ Images ] , with 156 torch bearers, including 75 Tibetans, and wound its way through the streets in Lhasa as the security personnel kept a close vigil. "We are...
Tags: tibet, Lhasa Communist Party, olympic torch, Tibet Autonomous Region, Tibetan, torch relay, Beijing, news, China, olympic games
Tibet to reopen to foreign tourists soon
Beijing :: China | about 1 year ago
Credibility Tibet will reopen to foreign tourists soon, Palma Trily, executive vice chairman of Tibet, told a press conference here on Friday. The official, however, said the move would not occur immediately after Saturday's Olympic torch relay.
Tags: Beijing Olympics Organizing Committee, Tibet, olympic torch, European Council, torch relay, Agence France-Presse, open ceremony, China
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