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Angry Christie makes racism claim
London :: United Kingdom | about 1 year ago
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And Christie, who won 100 metres gold at the 1992 Olympics, is adamant he should have carried the Olympic torch on its way through London in April. "How many black knights from British athletics do you know," he said on BBC Radio 4. Christie was banned...
Tags: Linford Christie, olympic torch, London
Visa limits undermine Beijing's tourism hopes
Beijing :: China | about 1 year ago
Credibility The measures, combined with the tragic news about the powerful earthquake in Sichuan Province last month, have already sapped tourism in China and cast a pall over Beijing during what was supposed to be a busy and jubilant tourist season leading up to...
Tags: tibet, china, Tibetan, E. China, Lhasa Shimla, olympic torch, Beijing News, torch relay, Beijing Olympics Organizing Committee, olympic games
Relay of torch, relay of love
Beijing :: China | about 1 year ago
Credibility The long and eventful Olympic torch relay in the run-up to the 2008 Beijing Games has taken on a whole new meaning in China since the devastating earthquake on May 12. Previously showing a nation's confidence and pride, a s in the scaling of Mt.
Tags: olympics, olympic torch, olympic games, John Whittingdale, energy issue
Amnesty demands answer on Tibet detainees!
Lhasa :: China | about 1 year ago
Credibility Amnesty demands answer on Tibet detainees London, June 19: Amnesty International today urged China to reveal what happened to people detained during the March crackdown on demonstrations in Tibet, as the Olympic torch heads for Lhasa. The London-based...
Tags: Southwestern Tibet Autonomous Region, Tibetï, olympic torch, Lhasa, torch relay, China Daily, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, China Central Television, rights group, human rights
Olympic torch relay underway in Shihezi
Beijing :: China | about 1 year ago
Credibility 008 Beijing Olympic Games The Olympic torch relay is now passing through Shihezi city, its third stop in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region...The first torchbearer was Han Xinping, the world champion in aircraft model competition.
Tags: Shihezi, olympic torch, torch relay, beijing olympic, China
CNN Beijing chief to run Olympic torch relay
Beijing :: China | about 1 year ago
Credibility CNN's Beijing bureau chief Jaime FlorCruz, his 17-year-old daughter and a corporate marketing executive will represent overseas Filipinos to carry the Olympic flames in the forth-coming torch relay of the Beijing Games, the Philippine government said...
Tags: olympic torch, bureau chief, torch relay, CNN Bureau, China Sonia, beijing bureau
Olympic Torch Relay in Tibet Rescheduled
Lhasa :: China | about 1 year ago
Credibility According to the previous plan, the torch would arrive in Tibet on Thursday and leave on Saturday. May 12 earthquake that jolted the southwest part of the country. According to the Technical Manuals of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), the organizers...
Tags: Tibet, Beijing Olympics, torch, Lhasa Chen Zhichang, foreign tourists, China, torch relay, Amnesty International, Beijing, olympic torch
Canadian carries Olympic torch in China
Chengdu :: China | about 1 year ago
Credibility ET Ellen Margolese and her son Kang Kang. (Courtesy of Ellen Margolese) Story content Ellen Margolese has an Olympic torch on display in her dining room. The tube-shaped memento, etched red and silver, is a souvenir from Shanghai, where she ran with it...
Tags: Ellen Margolese, olympic torch
Torch passed to Silk Road oasis
Beijing :: China | about 1 year ago
Credibility The Xinjiang leg is a highly sensitive part of the torch's relay. Relations between the Chinese authorities and the Muslim Uighur people are tense. Officials fear separatists may target the relay but the torch's run through Xinjiang's capital Urumqi was...
Tags: Tibet Autonomous Region, olympic torch, US Tibet Committee, Regional Tibetan Women’s Association, New Jersey Tibetan Community, Regional Tibetan Youth Congress, torch relay, China, Lhasa, Silk Road
China Appoints Olympic Terror Expert
Urumqi :: China | about 1 year ago
Credibility China has appointed a top terrorism expert to a leading public security post following a series of alleged plots against this summer's Beijing Olympics, an official notice said Monday. Yang Huanning, 51, has worked for years in central government bodies...
Tags: China, Olympics, terror, olympic torch, torch relay, Tibetan, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, Muslim Uighurs, Urumqi, china locks, capital urumqi, Kashgar
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