2006-02-27 04:00:00 PDT Turin, Italy-- Folks in the Beijing 2008 office were all atwitter a few days ago when International Olympic Committee president Jacques Rogge stopped by for a nanosecond ...

Residents of China's capital welcome the Chinese New Year with pyrotechnics. To celebrate the Year of the Dog, Beijing officials decided to lift a 12-year-old ban on setting off fireworks during the ...

(ATR) The surest sign of the coming of the Beijing Olympics is the launch of test events and 2006 will bring the first, sailing in August. Personalities and preparations involved with the 2008 Games ...

Fifty years ago, Beijing had 3,000 hutongs — narrow alleys flanked by old, one-story houses and crowded with people. Some of the alley communities have existed for 800 years. But as Beijing modernizes ...

Beijing is planning to build the world’s biggest subway and dramatically expand its bus network as part of efforts to combat the city’s fast-increasing traffic grid-lock, state press said on Monday.

“How will China’s pervasive censorship and control of domestic and international media and the Internet play out when thousands of international journalists descend on Beijing? How are the Olympic ...

China is getting credit for scoring points with Latin America this week by showing up at the Nonaligned Movement summit in Havana. The United States, invited as an observer, declined to attend. The ...