Windsurfer Yin wins China's first-ever sail gold |
| | | Chinese windsurfer Yin Jian has won the host nation's first-ever Olympic sailing gold medal with a win in the women's RS:X class. Italy's Alessandra Sensini won the silver and Britain's Bryony Shaw scored bronze. | | From The Washington Times | Add a commentary | Report abuse | | [+] All articles |
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A Chinese medicine boost? |
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Report: 1,200 flee as quake hits southern China |
| | | A report says about 1,200 people have evacuated their homes after a 5.3-magnitude earthquake hit southern China near its border with Myanmar. | | From Boston Globe | Add a commentary | Report abuse |
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Sore Hurdle Hero Says 'I'm Sorry' |
| | | China's Olympic hero Liu Xiang has apologised to his distraught fans for the Achilles injury that forced him out of the 110m hurdles. | | From Sky News | Add a commentary | Report abuse |
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Hua Guofeng, who briefly ruled China, dies |
| | | Hua Guofeng, who briefly ruled China as communist founder Mao Zedong's successor but was pushed aside as a prelude to reforms that launched an economic boom, died Wednesday at the age of 87, state-run media reported. | | From Boston Globe | Add a commentary | Report abuse |
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Four Dead After Typhoon Landslides |
| | | Three young brothers and an elderly woman were killed landslides in the Philippines as a powerful typhoon swept over the archipelago. | | From Sky News | Add a commentary | Report abuse |
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BEIJING BEAT: Rights groups frustrated by Olympics |
| | | The Beijing Olympics have left the world's human rights groups frustrated and angry _ convinced that China has been let off the hook for serious abuses, and adamant that future hosts like Russia must be held to a higher standard. | | From The Washington Times | Add a commentary | Report abuse |
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Joey Cheek bemoans curbs on Olympic free speech |
| | | Former U.S. Olympic speedskater Joey Cheek, founder of a group of athletes called Team Darfur, had a visa for China revoked shortly before he was to embark for Beijing two weeks ago. He had planned to urge China, an economic partner of Sudan, to help make peace in Sudan's war-torn Darfur region. | | From The Washington Times | Add a commentary | Report abuse |
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Beijing bishop urges pope to visit China |
| | | The Beijing bishop appointed by China's state-controlled Catholic Church said in an interview Wednesday that he hopes Pope Benedict XVI will visit his country and that relations with the Vatican are improving. | | From Boston Globe | Add a commentary | Report abuse |
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