Olympic firm admits child labour
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A Chinese company making products for the Beijing Olympics admits using child workers, despite initial denials.
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Makers of official 2008 Beijing Olympics merchandise are using child labour and abusing workers, campaigners say.
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JAKARTA, Indonesia - A US mining company admitted Wednesday that it released mercury into the environment at one of its Indonesian gold mines but denied that it had any health impact on people.
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Paris 2012 organisers have been accused of breaking Olympic bid rules by using French embassies to promote the city. Madrid 2012 have made an official protest to the International Olympic Committee&#39;s (IOC) ethical commission.
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US unit of the German company also pleads guilty of participating in a price-fixing conspiracy. WASHINGTON, DC  - The Pittsburgh-based subsidiary of Germany&#39;s Bayer AG has agreed to plead guilty and
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The Chinese company where Apple iPods are made has decided to drop a defamation claim against two staffers at China Business News.  An investigation by Apple found no serious labor abuses, like child labor, at Hongfujin Precision Industry in Shenzhen, the BBC reports.
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The IOC fine the Austrian Olympic Committee Â£500,000 over the doping affair at last year's Turin Winter Games.
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Youth groups using an adventure centre are told its manager has a conviction for sexually assaulting a child.
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ATHENS, Greece - The Greek National Tourism Organization announced Friday that it will take legal action against an advertising firm because it "defamed the country" by continuing an Olympic-related campaign abroad even after the Athens Games were over.
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The United Nations has revealed that the son of the secretary general, Kofi Annan, worked for a company being investigated in the Iraqi oil-for-food scandal for four years longer than he first admitted.
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The IOC votes to create a Youth Olympics starting in 2010 to motivate young people to take up sport.
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Industry denies proven links between some chemicals and childhood illness, a senior WHO official tells the BBC.
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ATHENS, Greece -- If international gymnastics is a brick house, the mortar holding it together is a conglomerate of finger-pointing, dubious judging, scandal, complaining and bald-faced weeping.
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The father of an eight-year-old Chinese girl who ran 3,560 km (2,212 miles) to Beijing to celebrate the 2008 Olympics on Tuesday denied accusations of child abuse.
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Final plans for the five bidding cites for the 2012 Olympics have been handed in to the International Olympic Committee&#39;s headquarters in Lausanne in Switzerland.
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The BBC admitted Friday it was tricked into reporting that a US company accepted responsibility for the world&#39;s worst industrial accident.
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London&#39;s bid team will reveal their final plans for hosting the 2012 Olympic Games when they unveil full details of the bid document on Friday.