China fines runners out of respect for sponsors
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China has punished four of its athletes who failed to properly display a sponsor's trademark on their chests while running in the Beijing Marathon in October.
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China has banned a Nike TV commercial in which US basketball star LeBron James defeats animated Chinese characters, after viewers complained on the Internet.
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A Greek court has given a former Irish priest a suspended 12-month jail sentence and a 3,000 euro (2,000 pound) fine for pushing a leading Olympic marathon runner off the road, a court source says.
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International press groups denounced   new Chinese curbs on the dissemination of foreign news as a   step backwards ahead of the 2008 Beijing Olympics, when   thousands of journalists will descend on the country's capital.
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China told critics on Friday not to link the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games to political issues or boycotts, saying that any attempt to do so would be "inappropriate and unpopular".
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Chinese officials are flouting a pledge made to the International Olympic Committee (IOC), which helped to secure the 2008 games for Beijing, by harassing and abusing journalists, Human Rights Watch said Friday.
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SAN JOSE, Calif. - A 43-year-old man whose habit of jogging in a park wearing nothing but a pair of running shoes offended other trail users said he would keep his clothes on after he was fined $95 for indecent exposure.
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BEIJING -- Chinese authorities have arrested or reprimanded more than 750 officials in recent months in connection with billions of dollars in financial irregularities ranging from unpaid taxes to embezzlement, according to a report made public yesterday.
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Text of report in English by official Chinese news agency Xinhua (New China News Agency)  ["China Punishes 20,000 Rural Officials for Misconducts" - Xinhua headline]  Beijing, Feb.
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The Bush administration imposed penalties this month against some of China's largest companies for aiding Iran's efforts to improve its ballistic missiles, The New York Times reported on Monday.
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A Taiwan-funded company has slashed a  libel claim against two Shanghai journalists, who said workers  at a plant making iPods were mistreated, from 30 million yuan  ($3.77 million) to just 1 yuan, Xinhua news agency said on  Thursday.
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China has banned British computer game âFootball Manager 2005,â saying it violated Chinese law by referring to Taiwan, Hong Kong and other regions claimed by China as separate countries.
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SHANGHAI, China -- A Chinese supplier of Apple Computer's iPod has withdrawn a defamation lawsuit it filed against two Chinese journalists over claims of labor mistreatment.
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Beijing&#39;s city government has cancelled a controversial purchase of Rmb29m ($3.5m, â¬2.6m, Â£1.8m) of software from Microsoft after local rivals complained about the way the deal was handled.
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Alvin Harrison, the 2000 Olympic silver medallist in the 400 meters, received a four-year suspension from the sport after admitting he used several undetectable performance-enhancing
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Get INQ7 breaking news on your Smart mobile phone in the Philippines. Send INQ7 BREAKING to 386. BEIJING, China -- China has imposed a nationwide ban on a &quot;blasphemous&quot; Nike television commercial -- featuring
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A Chinese province has banned its tourists from wearing counterfeit clothes overseas to avoid flagrant abuse of intellectual property rights and to protect its image, local media said on Tuesday.