Beijing Games fuelling forced evictions: group
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Some 1.5 million residents of Beijing will be displaced by the time the city hosts the 2008 Olympics, many of them evicted from their homes against their will, a housing rights group said on Tuesday.
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Beijing has ordered provincial governments to begin a promised nationwide crackdown on forced labor in China, sparked by outrage over reports hundreds of farmers and children were enslaved in rural brick kilns.
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The British Olympic Association has defended an athletes' contract curbing political activity at the Beijing games.
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The International Olympic Committee says it was right to award the Games to Beijing despite concerns over human rights in China.
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China urged activists linking its stance over Sudan to the Beijing Olympics to play fair and rebel groups in Darfur praised the decision by film director Steven Spielberg to quit as an artistic adviser to the Games.
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Chinese police are using the annual meeting of parliament to crackdown on a wide range of dissent in what could be a dress rehearsal for the Beijing Olympics, activists and rights groups said Wednesday.
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&quot;The People&#39;s Courtroom of the Olympic Village&quot; was opened in Beijing on Thursday to deal with civil cases related to next year&#39;s Games, state media reported.
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The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has urged Beijing to ensure the city is ready to host the 2008 Games well in advance, an official said on Wednesday.
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BEIJING, Feb. 19 -- Beijing officials on Tuesday defended their relocation of nearly 15,000 people as part of the massive construction projects that have transformed the capital into a 31-venue showcase for the Olympic Games.
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Beijing is planning to reduce the cityâs motor traffic during the games to improve air quality and ease traffic flow.
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More than 180 Chinese dissidents and rights activists have signed a letter urging the International Olympic Committee to press China to improve its human rights record ahead of the 2008 Beijing Summer Games.
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Despite the horror stories about heat, humidity, and pollution, the whole world still wants to go to Beijing for the Olympics. With the Games more than seven months off, tickets are difficult to find. There's so much demand that the organizers, who had planned to sell three-quarters of their supply to Chinese residents, will offer half to foreigners.
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A Beijing man planning to protest against evictions to make way for new buildings in Beijing is reportedly jailed for four years.
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The International Olympic Committee  (IOC) has urged Beijing to ensure the city is ready to host the  2008 Games well in advance, an official said on Wednesday.
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Up to 1.85 million tickets for the Beijing Olympics will go on sale to people in China next week, officials say.
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Beijing will demolish the last 22 squatter &quot;villages&quot; remaining in the city by June as part of efforts to beautify the capital ahead of the 2008 Olympics.
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British athletes selected for this year's Olympic Games in Beijing will be asked to sign a contract that forbids them making any political statements about the Chinese regime, according to a sunday newspaper report.