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The Guardian It's getting harder to breathe The Olympics have highlighted Beijing's poor air quality, but climate change is increasing pollution around the world | Concerns about the air quality in Beijing led US cyclists to step off the plane ... (photo: WN / Denise Yong) Beijing Climate Olympics Photos Pollution |
Canoe Human rights groups left frustrated by reaction to China during Olympics By David Crary, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS | BEIJING - 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... (photo: WN / Yeshe Choesang) China Groups Human Photos Rights Slideshow |
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The Australian China may have killed 140 Tibetans - Dalai | CHINESE security forces opened fire on a crowd this week in eastern Tibet and may have killed 140 people, the Dalai Lama was quoted as saying in Le Monde daily today. |... (photo: WN / Yeshe Choesang) China Chinese Fire Photos Security Slideshow |
The Times of India Asia stocks, dollar drop as oil jumps | ONG KONG: Asian stocks fell on Thursday as investors worried about the ability of the region's exporters to... (photo: WN / Janice Sabnal) Asia Dollar Economy Market Photos |
Buffalo News Tibet needs support during festive Olympics | It's criminal how China is using the Olympics to legitimize its brutal repression of Tibet. Journalists are being roughed up and taken away in police vans to stop them ... (photo: WN / Yeshe Choesang) China Olympics Photos Repression Slideshow Tibet |
Buffalo News The real China threat | WASHINGTON - Obsessed with rankings, Americans are bound to see the Beijing Olympics as a metaphor for a larger and more troubling question. Will China overtake the Uni... (photo: WN / Denise Yong) Asia Beijing China Photos |
Canada Dot Com Welcome to Beijing! Remove your scruples before entering | To Beijing, or not Beijing? Not, decided our prime minister, for reasons that remain perfectly unclear, though the excuse given was "scheduling conflicts." | Perhaps he... (photo: WN / Yeshe Choesang) Beijing Chinese Democratic Doll Photos Slideshow |
Canada Dot Com Foreign pro-Tibet advocates jailed in latest crackdown | BEIJING -- At least eight American blogger-activists and several other foreigners have been detained in Beijing as the government intensifies a crackdown on pro-Tibetan... (photo: WN / Yeshe Choesang) Activists Beijing Blogger Photos Slideshow Tibet |
The Guardian Sponsor Puma sees no sales sprint from Bolt win By Michael Wei BEIJING, Aug 21 (Reuters) - German sportswear manufacturer Puma, sponsor of the fastest man in the world, is refusing to get carried away by the Olympic he... (photo: WN / patricia) Business Company Photos Puma World |
The Miami Herald The censored Games OUR OPINION: CHINA ABANDONS VOWS TO ALLOW DISSENT, FREE REPORTING | China's leaders would have the world believe that the country is just one big happy place where none o... (photo: AP / Miguel Villagran) China Free Games Opinion Photos Slideshow |