China establishes company to make its own jumbo jets
China has established a homegrown company to make passenger jumbo jets, state media reported Sunday -- a step forward in the country's quest to become less dependent on Boeing and Airbus. Nations:[China] 2008-05-11 China ready to meet with aide to Dalai Lama
China's government agreed Friday to a meeting with an envoy of exiled Tibetan leader the Dalai Lama, a step that follows weeks of calls from world leaders for dialogue in the wake of anti-government violence in Tibet. People:[Dalai Lama][Nicolas Sarkozy][Hu Jintao] Activities:[2008 Tibet Riot][China Hu Jintao Admin.] 2008-04-25 China condemns Paris honor to Dalai Lama
China condemned on Tuesday Paris's decision to make the Dalai Lama an honorary citizen, warning that the gesture had damaged ties with France just as both nations were seeking to ease bad blood over protests. People:[Dalai Lama][Nicolas Sarkozy][Hu Jintao] Activities:[2008 Oversea Chinese Movement][2008 Beijing Olympics Torch][China-France] 2008-04-22 Fresh anti-Western protests rock China
Fresh anti-Western protests broke out in China Sunday with angry demonstrators targeting US broadcaster CNN and French store Carrefour in rows over perceived bias, Tibet and the Beijing Olympics. Nations:[China] People:[Nicolas Sarkozy] Activities:[2008 Anti-West in China][2008 Cafferty Racist Remark] 2008-04-20 World finance leaders tackle bank reform
World financial leaders facing the gravest economic crisis in at least a decade are pledging tighter control of banks and other financial institutions and hoping the U.S. slump is short. Nations:[U.S.][Germany][Italy][Japan][U.K.][France] People:[Henry Paulson][Ben Bernanke] Activities:[2008 U.S. Recession][2007 Global Credit Crunch] 2008-04-12 Torch concludes topsy-turvy tour of S.F.
 The Olympic torch played hide and seek with thousands of demonstrators and spectators crowding the city's waterfront Wednesday before being spirited away without even a formal goodbye on its symbolic stop in the United States. Nations:[U.S.] People:[Gavin Newsom][Nicolas Sarkozy][Gordon Brown][Wen Jiabao] Activities:[2008 Beijing Olympics Torch][2008 Tibet Riot][2008 Beijing Olympics] 2008-04-10 IOC raises prospect of abandoning global torch relay
Olympic chiefs on Tuesday raised the prospect for the first time of abandoning the international legs of the Beijing Games torch relay, amid a wave of protests targeting the flame overseas. Nations:[China][U.K.][France][U.S.] Activities:[2008 Beijing Olympics Torch][2008 Tibet Riot][2008 Beijing Olympics] 2008-04-08 Olympic torch arrives in San Francisco
The Olympic torch arrived for its only North American stop amid heavy security Tuesday, a day after its visit to Paris descended into chaos and activists here scaled the Golden Gate Bridge to protest China's human rights record. Nations:[U.S.] People:[Gavin Newsom][Nicolas Sarkozy] Activities:[2008 Tibet Riot][2008 Beijing Olympics][2008 Beijing Olympics Torch] 2008-04-08 China denounced Olympics saboteurs
China on Tuesday denounced protesters who upstaged Olympic Games torch relays in London and Paris, with state media saying that saboteurs are bent on wrecking Games goodwill. Nations:[U.K.][France] People:[George W. Bush][Hillary Clinton] Activities:[2008 Beijing Olympics Torch][2008 Tibet Riot][2008 Beijing Olympics] 2008-04-08 Coroner jury: Diana unlawfully killed
A coroner's jury ruled Monday that Princess Diana and boyfriend Dodi Fayed were unlawfully killed through the reckless actions of their driver and the paparazzi in 1997. Nations:[France] Activities:[Princess Diana Accident] 2008-04-07 Officials put out Olympic torch 3 times
Security officials extinguished the Olympic torch three times Monday as protests against China's human rights record turned a relay through Paris into a chaotic series of stops and starts. Nations:[France] People:[Nicolas Sarkozy] Activities:[2008 Beijing Olympics Torch][2008 Tibet Riot][2008 Beijing Olympics] 2008-04-07 Tibet protests disrupt Olympic flame in London
Demonstrators grabbed at the Olympic torch, blocked its path and tried to snuff out its flame Sunday in raucous protests of China's human rights record that forced a string of last-second changes to a chaotic relay through London. Nations:[U.K.] People:[Nicolas Sarkozy][Gordon Brown][Tim Henman] Activities:[2008 Beijing Olympics Torch][2008 Tibet Riot][2008 Beijing Olympics] 2008-04-06
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