Deaths uncounted in China's tainted milk scandal
LITI VILLAGE, China - Li Xiaokai died of kidney failure on the old wooden bed in the family farmhouse, just before dawn on a drizzly Sept. 10.
Nations:China Activities:2008 China Milk Scandal Source:(AP)
2008-11-15
China opens its long-sought Olympics spectacularly
BEIJING - China didn't just walk onto the world stage. It soared over it. At last playing its long-sought role as Olympic host, China opened the Summer Games in spectacular fashion Friday with an extravaganza of fireworks and pageantry dramatizing its ascendance as a global power.
Nations:Afghanistan Nepal Turkey Argentina Kenya Germany People:Dirk Nowitzki Roger Federer LeBron James Vladimir Putin Yao Ming Kobe Bryant Activities:2008 Beijing Olympics
2008-08-08
Olympic flame sets off on final relay
BEIJING - Torch bearers carried the Olympic flame on the final relay of its long and sometimes contentious global tour Wednesday, greeted by rapturous crowds in the Chinese capital two days before it officially launches the Summer Games.
Nations:China People:Yao Ming Zhang Yimou Activities:2008 Beijing Olympics Torch Source:(AP)
2008-08-05
Olympics are a moment of pride, tension for China
BEIJING — On Friday evening, as princes, kings and presidents look on, China will fill the sky over its capital with an awesome display of fireworks and make its case to the world that it was no mistake to award Beijing the 2008 Summer Olympics.
Nations:China Japan South Korea Spain People:Zhang Yimou Activities:2008 Beijing Olympics Source:(McClatchy)
2008-08-03
Jet Li breaks record with $13 mln paycheck
Chinese action star Jet Li is set to rake in 100 million yuan ($13 million) for his latest movie, a record for an actor in a Chinese-language film, state media reported on Sunday.
Nations:Hong Kong People:Jet Li Peter Chan Xu Jinglei Takeshi Kaneshiro Ang Lee Zhang Yimou
2007-11-26
Polluted Beijing voted China's most beautiful city
Dirty, polluted, congested and razed of many old buildings -- but Beijing has still been chosen as China's most beautiful city.
Nations:China
2007-09-11
Iraq war films among favorites at Venice
Two very different movies about the Iraq war are among the favorites for awards at this year's Venice film festival as it passes the halfway stage, and an unusually high number of male leads have stood out.
Nations:Italy France Egypt People:Paul Haggis Bob Dylan Keira Knightley Cate Blanchett Jude Law Tommy Lee Jones Activities:2007 Venice Film Festival
2007-09-04
Venice film festival's 75th anniversary edition kicks off
Creative tension will be in the air Wednesday as the 75th anniversary edition of the Venice Film Festival kicks off with the psychological drama "Atonement" by Britain's Joe Wright.
People:Paul Haggis Keira Knightley Jude Law Susan Sarandon Tommy Lee Jones Kitano Takeshi Activities:2007 Venice Film Festival
2007-08-29
'Atonement' kicks off 75th anniversary Venice film festival
British psychological drama "Atonement", starring Keira Knightley, opened the 75th anniversary Venice film festival on Wednesday.
People:Kenneth Branagh Jude Law Ang Lee George Clooney Peter Greenaway Paul Haggis Activities:2007 Venice Film Festival
2007-08-29
Rain floods southern China
Downpours brought by a fading tropical storm caused widespread flooding in south China, toppling more than 3,600 houses, while in the northeast hundreds were evacuated to avoid landslides, state media said on Monday.
Nations:China Hong Kong Taiwan Activities:2007 Typhoon Pabuk 2007 China Flood
2007-08-13
China under fire from all sides a year ahead of Games
Free Tibet activists on the Great Wall, a barrage of critical rights reports, a shroud of smog hanging over Beijing -- China's government must surely have imagined a more auspicious one-year countdown for the Olympics.
Nations:China People:Hu Jintao Activities:2007 China Flood China Product Safety Crisis 2008 Beijing Olympics China Hu Jintao Admin. Tibet Issues
2007-08-08
China faces twin woes of floods, drought
Much of China was inundated by the worst rains of the year, testing the Three Gorges Dam's anti-flood capacity, even as over a million people suffered from serious drought, state media said Tuesday.
Nations:China Activities:2007 China Flood China Three Gorge Dam Project
2007-07-31
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