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Olympic torch relay underway in Shihezi
Beijing :: China | about 1 year ago
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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
China warns spectators off Xinjiang torch relay
Beijing :: China | about 1 year ago
Credibility Authorities in China's troubled far-western region of Xinjiang are telling people who want to watch the Olympic torch as it passes through the area to stay at home and tune into the television instead. Spectators, who in other parts of China have thronged...
Tags: tibet, China, Tibetan, news, olympic torch, torch relay, terror experts, public security, beijing olympic, western regions
Sacred flame goes to Xinjiang, then Tibet
Urumqi :: China | about 1 year ago
Credibility The Olympic torch will travel from Chongqing to Xinjiang instead of Tibet on the domestic relay route...It postponed the Sichuan leg of the relay because of the May 12 earthquake. Besides, the flame's journey was suspended for three days, from May 19...
Tags: olympics, torch relay, olympic torch, Tibet, China, beijing olympic, Beijing News, Sichuan
Torch relay starts in Three Gorges city
Chongqing :: China | about 1 year ago
Credibility Immigrators from the Three Gorges region celebrated the Beijing Olympic torch relay with enthusiasm when it kicked off in heavy rains in Wanzhou, Chongqing, Southwestern China Sunday morning. Southwest China, June 15 (Xinhua) -- Jenny Bowen, executive...
Tags: torch relay, Wanzhou Middle School, Wanzhou High School, Chongqing Municipality, olympic torch, beijing olympic, Sichuan, Jenny Bowen, Wenchuan, Southwest China
Olympic torch continues tour in Guizhou
Zunyi :: China | about 1 year ago
Credibility 008 Beijing Olympic Games The Olympic torch relay continues its journey on Saturday in the historical city and revolutionary base, Zunyi of Guizhou Province, southwest China...The place is known as the jewel of the Miao ethnic people, and is home to many...
Tags: olympic torch, Guizhou Province, Zunyi
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