Olympics: Beijing denies stadium deaths cover-up report
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Beijing Olympic organisers rejected charges Monday that more than 10 workers had died during a rush to complete the main stadium for the August Games.
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BEIJING, Jan. 28 -- Six workers have died helping to build venues for this summer's Olympic Games, including two who worked at Beijing's celebrated "Bird's Nest" stadium, a top worksafety official said Monday.
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BEIJING, July 12 -- A system to monitor food safety will go into effect during test events for the 2008 Beijing Olympics next month, a Chinese government watchdog announced Thursday, even as a TV station aired an undercover investigation showing how shredded cardboard was used as a filling in ste...
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TAIPEI: Taiwanese authorities have denied reports that President Chen Shui-bian&#39;s plane was targeted by Chinese fighter jets when he was flying over the Taiwan Strait.
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The British Olympic Association has defended an athletes' contract curbing political activity at the Beijing games.
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November 26, 2004 ã¡ Chinese officials hedged a bit yesterday when questioned about a rumor that the North Korean leader, Kim Jong-il, had died.
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China denied claims Monday that a deadly strain of bird flu that killed 27 people in Asia was discovered in the country&#39;s pigs, as the World Health Organisation warned the disease will take several years to contain.
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Beijing's polluted air is raising the likelihood that some Olympic events may be postponed for a day or two, although special restrictions should keep the skies clean much of the time, the International Olympic Committee said Thursday.
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Beijing has strongly rejected accusations of its blocking of a commercial deal for up to 1.4 billion dollars worth of Airbus planes due to the European Union's refusal to lift an arms embargo on China.
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An outbreak of bacterial meningitis in China that has so far claimed 16 lives should not be considered cause for alarm, a senior health official was quoted as saying by state media.
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Fearing civil unrest should the actual number of premature deaths from pollution be published, Beijing persuades the World Bank to omit the figures from a report, the Financial Times says.
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Vietnam on Thursday denied reports of an alleged attack by Vietnamese fishing crews on Chinese fishermen after China requested a thorough investigation into the incident.
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China defended its policies in Darfur on Thursday and rejected attempts to link the humanitarian crisis to the Beijing Olympics, a day after Steven Spielberg said his conscience would not allow him to continue working as an adviser to the event.
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Olympic Games host Beijing has hit back at a report on Forbes Magazine's Web site that rated its airport the second worst in the world in terms of delayed flights.
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Former Olympic 50m and 100m freestyle gold medal winner Alexander Popov has denied a report in French newspaper L&#39;Equipe that he is set to retire.
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Organisers of the 2008 Beijing Olympics say they are looking into reports of child labour and worker abuse.
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Australian Olympics chief John Coates said Sunday the AOC's management will not police blogs written by its athletes at this year's Beijing Games.