Coastal Chinese city offers respite for Olympic tourists
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XIAMEN, China  - Dirty, polluted, and congested -- China's large cities have an unenviable poor reputation.
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FOR most spectators in the Olympic stadium, the lavish closing ceremony in Athens last night was a chance to revel in the self-congratulation and relief that traditionally comprise end-of-games euphoria.
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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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&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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Crowds of well wishers greet the Chinese Olympic team, returning home with a record number of medals.
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On the coast of the Japan Sea, two and a half hours by train from Kyoto, is the quiet fishing village of Mihama. Noted for its harbour and beautiful beaches, it draws tourists from all over the country.
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CHINA intends to make Olympic history by staging part of the 2008 Beijing Games outside its own territory. Top officials have suggested sending Olympians three hours by plane from the Olympic village on the
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KAILI, China  - Railways and highways were returning to normal across China on Tuesday, but millions are likely to spend the biggest holiday of the year without power and water in what for some is the coldest winter in a century.
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Chinese officials are treating the Games as proud confirmation of their country's emergence as a global force to be reckoned with.
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Most of the resorts hit by the tsunami are back in business. Now all they need is for tourists to return
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BEIJING : As the Olympic flame leaves Athens, the eyes of the sporting world are turning towards Beijing. When China hosts the games for the first time in 2008, it will cap an extraordinary 30-year journey
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BEIJING, Dec. 27 -- The tidal waves from the massive undersea earthquake smashed many tourist heavens in the Southeast Asian nations.
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Thousands of European tourists in Asian beach resorts were listed dead or missing in the wake of the tidal waves that engulfed the region after an earthquake.
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Beijing will clear out subterranean hotels in old air-raid shelters near venues for the Olympic Games, fearing fallout from potential accidents at the guesthouses.
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By Wanda Fox  FEW PLACES in China are more likely to make Californians feel at home than the city of Qingdao in the northeast province of Shandong.
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ATHENS, Greece - If anyone deserved a party, it was the people of Athens.    The flame went out on the Olympics during a closing ceremony Sunday night that honored the birthplace of the games with an ebullient display of Greek pride and symbolism, a relief-filled celebration of the ancient and the new...
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While Beijingâs success in winning the rights to host 2008 Olympics has gained considerable media attention, it also has added impetus to a slew of other developments in the Chinese