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Leona Lewis & David Beckham to close out the Beijing Olympics
Leona Lewis and soccer ace David Beckham have reportedly been lined up to star in the closing ceremony of the Beijing Olympics in China this summer. To mark China’s official handover of the global sporting event to Britain for the London 2012 Games, the L.A. Galaxy player will make an appearance while Bleeding Love hitmaker Lewis will sing to an estimated audience of over 150 million.Beijing Farm Tour
Tour Code: BJ-PO-16Tour Name: Beijing Farm Tour to Hancunhe Village and Jinxiu Dadi Agriculture ParkDeparture: dailyDuration: 1 dayPackage includes: Vehicle, Guide, Meal, Admission Fee... Highlights: Hancunhe Village-Jinxiu Dadi Agriculture Park Beijing Farm TourBeijing-Hancunhe Village-Jinxiu Dadi Agriculture Park Day Trip This trip we will learn something about modern farming in Beijing suburb. Detail ItineraryPick-up from your hotel around 8:00 AM.Beijing Olympics In Review
The Olympic Games went by WAY too fast. I know that I've been ranting and raving about the judging/mishaps/stupidity in various olympic sports lately but, that didn't stop me from enjoying them. Well, maybe a little.What's with the Beijing Games judges!?!?!
Is it just me or are the judges in various sports annoying the crap out of you? The Women's Gymastics All Around judging is definitely starting to go south. Boxing!?!Beijing Olympics
So who's watching the olympics tonight?
I'm so excited, I love watching all the countries get together for those 16 days.
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China Holds Firm on Major Issues in Obama’s Visit
President Obama toured the historic Forbidden City in Beijing on Tuesday during a break from meetings with Chinese leaders.
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BEIJING — In six hours of meetings, at two dinners and during a stilted 30-minute news conference in which President Hu Jintao did not allow questions, President Obama was confronted, on his first visit, with a fast-rising China more willing to say no to the United States.
On topics like Iran (Mr.
IOC reports 6 Olympic athletes positive for CERA
< a href='http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090428/ap_on_sp_ol/oly_ioc_beijing_doping'>Associated Press By STEPHEN WILSON LONDON – The IOC's pursuit of drug cheats from the Beijing Olympics paid off Tuesday with confirmation that six athletes turned up positive for a new blood-boosting substance in retests of samples from last year's games. The International Olympic Committee said a total of seven positive tests involving six athletes came back positive for CERA, an advanced version of the endurance-enhancing hormone EPO. The IOC did not name the athletes or sports involved, saying it was notifying the athletes through their national Olympic committees.Simatai Great Wall Tour
Simatai Great Wall- It is often described with the following five words: perilous, dense, diverse, ingenuous, and peculiar. If you are keen to see all kinds of Wall, Simatai section is must to be seen. But the wall is 3 hours' driving from Beijing city.More Than 3,500 Chinese Children Named for Beijjing Olympics
The upcoming Beijing Olympics is more than just a point of pride for China — it's such an important part of the national consciousness that nearly 3,500 children have been named for the event, a newspaper reported Sunday.
Most of the 3,491 people with the name "Aoyun," meaning Olympics, were born around the year 2000, as Beijing was bidding to host the 2008 Summer Games, the Beijing Daily reported, citing information from China's national identity card database.
The vast majority of people named Aoyun are male, the newspaper said.
Interview with an American Photojournalist in CHINA
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Q&A with Tom Carter, author of CHINA: Portrait of a People
American photojournalist Tom Carter has spent the past four years in the People’s Republic of China, traversing all 33 provinces and autonomous regions not just once but twice. The San Francisco native’s hardback book, a definitive 800-image volume aptly entitled CHINA: Portrait of a People, is due out this winter from Hong Kong publisher Blacksmith Books. Tom took a day off from travelling to discuss the challenges of taking pictures in China, how he evaded censorship in the tightly-controlled republic, and to share a few insider tips on visiting what is to become the world’s largest tourism market.
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