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By sportswriter Bai Xu BEIJING, Aug. 11 (Xinhua) -- Monday was a big day for India, when shooter Bindra nailed the gold medal in the men's 10-meter air rifle at the Beij...

BEIJING, Aug. 11 (Xinhua) -- Australia's golden girl Libby Trickett won a heated race in the women's 100-meter butterfly on Monday, snatching her first individual Olympic g...

By Sportswriter Yan Hao BEIJING, Aug. 10 (Xinhua) -- Before tonight, none of Chinese won an Olympic gold medal after she had a baby and none of Chinese judokas had ever succ...

BEIJING, Aug. 11 (Xinhua) -- The gold quest of U.S. swimmer Katie Hoff in Beijing met another setback Monday morning as Britain's Rebecca Adlington touched the wall first at th...

BEIJING, Aug. 10 (Xinhua) -- U.S. swimming prodigy Michael Phelps began with a bang his quest for an unprecedented eight-gold at an Olympic Games, winning the men's 400m indivi...

Gold medalist Guo Wenjun (C) of China, siver medalist Natalia Paderina (L) of Russia, and bronze medalist Nino Salukvadze (R) of Gerogia wave to spectators at the awarding ceremony...

by sportswriter Wu Chen BEIJING, Aug. 10 (Xinhua) -- Prapawadee Jaroenrattanatarak of Thailand claimed the title in the women's 53kg category weightlifting at Beijing Ol...

BEIJING, Aug. 11 (Xinhua) -- Spaniard Maria Jose Martinez Sanchez became the first winner on the second day of the Olympic tennis event after blitzing Australian Alicia Molik as qu...

BEIJING, Aug. 11 (Xinhua) -- Indian shooter Abhinav Bindra totaled 700.5 points to win the men's 10-meter air rifle title after a hot chase in the final on Monday, winning Indi...

BEIJING, Aug. 7 (Xinhua) -- Chinese basketball player and NBA star Yao Ming has been picked to hold the national flag at the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympic Games on Friday...

By Sportswriter Liu Ning BEIJING, Aug. 2 (Xinhua) -- Guo Shuang, a Chinese cycling talent in the women's sprint, on Saturday vowed to beat other world elites in Beijing...

By Sportswriter Liu Ning BEIJING, Aug. 2 (Xinhua) -- Guo Shuang, a Chinese cycling talent in the women's sprint, on Saturday vowed to beat other world elites in Beijing...

China is administratively divided into 23 provinces, 5 autonomous regions, 4 centrally administrative municipalities and 2 special administrative regions. Municipalities are direct...

BEIJING, July 30 (Xinhua) -- Transportation authorities here said on Wednesday that they would apply traffic controls on 35 sections of road on Aug. 8 to ensure the Olympics openin...

?BEIJING, July 27 (Xinhua) -- Two-time Olympic basketball gold medalist Gary Payton believed the United States would bring the gold back at the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. ...

BEIJING, July 27 (Xinhua) -- Chinese cycling Olympic hopeful Guo Shuang has shrugged off the world championship's dismay and expressed her confidence for the upcoming Beijing O...

NAIROBI, July 28 (Xinhua) -- Kenyan steeplechase runners have pulled out of Tuesday's Monaco IAAF World Athletics Tour meeting to allow for adequate preparation ahead of Beijin...

BEIJING, July 26 (Xinhua) -- Following is the name list of the Chinese delegation for the 29th Olympic Games: ??Chef de mission: Liu Peng Deputy chef de mission: Yu Zai...

BEIJING, July 24 (Xinhua) -- Four high-speed trains, the first of their kind made only for sightseeing during the Beijing Olympics, have rolled off production line recently, manufa...

JINAN, East China, July 23 (Xinhua) -- The Olympic torch relay completed its tour in Jinan, the last leg in east China's Shandong Province, on Wednesday. Diving queen G...

JINAN, East China, July 23 (Xinhua) -- Though "springboard diva" Guo Jingjing has been ruling springboard synchronized with her teammate Wu Minxia, her partner was changed ...

QINGDAO, East China, July 21 (Xinhua) -- The Beijing Olympic torch was relayed Monday on the sea off Olympic co-host city Qingdao's coast in east China's Shandong Province....

INGDAO, East China, July 21 (Xinhua) -- The Olympic torch relay begins its tour in Olympic co-host city Qingdao of East China's Shandong Province at 8:10 a.m. local time on Mon...

BEIJING, July 11 -- In the latest effort to push for closer bilateral exchanges, Taiwan's top negotiator with the mainland yesterday proposed to expand recently launched cross-...

BEIJING, July 8 -- From July 20, passengers have to undergo a security check before entering more than 20 major airports across the country, the Civil Aviation Administration of Ch...

HONG KONG, July 6 (Xinhua) -- Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping said here Sunday he is glad to see that the Olympic spirit has won common acknowledgment among the general public in...

BEIJING, July 8 -- From July 20, passengers have to undergo a security check before entering more than 20 major airports across the country, the Civil Aviation Administration of Ch...

HONG KONG, July 6 (Xinhua) -- Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping said here Sunday he is glad to see that the Olympic spirit has won common acknowledgment among the general public in...

Construction of the Great Wall lasted for more than 2,000 years, from the state of Chu in the seventh century B.C. to the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) and it ran through more than 20 f...

BEIJING, June 16 (Xinhua) -- Online Chinese shoppers spent 16.2 billion yuan (2.3 billion U.S. dollars) in 19 major cities in the first half of 2008, China Internet Network Informa...