Beijing seeks Games cuts
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Beijing Olympic organisers want to slash around Â£400m from the costs of hosting the 2008 Games.
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Chinese and foreign spectators at next year's Beijing Olympic Games will pay the same ticket prices, and almost two-thirds of tickets will cost less than 100 yuan ($12.89), a state newspaper said on Friday.
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International Olympic Committee (IOC)  chief Jacques Rogge has called for an end to the "bickering"  between the cities seeking to host the 2012 Games.
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A British Olympian risked sparking controversy on Tuesday by calling on China to do more to end the ongoing conflict in Sudan's Darfur region, amid a row over attempts by the British Olympic Association to gag its athletes.
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After starting an Olympic-style torch relay through countries that have suffered genocide, Mia Farrow on Friday pressed China, the host of the 2008 summer games, to help end abuses in the Darfur region of Sudan.
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Ticket prices at the 2008 Beijing Olympics will range from $3.82 to $638 when they go on sale next year.
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Beijing calls on Washington to halt a sale of missiles to Taiwan, warning it will harm stability and bilateral ties.
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The 11th of every month in Beijing is to be "voluntarily wait in line" day as the city attempts to eradicate queue-jumping before next year's Olympics, a city official said on Wednesday.
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BEIJING: With the end of the Athens Olympics, the focus is now on China&#39;s preparations as host of the 2008 Games. Authorities are promising a cleaner, greener and a culturally vibrant Beijing.
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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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Tourists seeking their own Olympian challenge while attending the Beijing Games this August might be tempted to get behind the wheel of a rental car and take a spin on the roads of the Chinese capital.
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China was facing a major international crisis linked to the Olympics Thursday amid mounting pressure over its role in Darfur after US filmmaker Steven Spielberg severed his links to the Games.
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Jacques Rogge, head of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), has signed an appeal to China to do more to end the conflict in Sudan's Darfur region, according to a copy of the letter published in The Independent on Thursday.
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Legal wrangling over the status of  Turin's Olympic Committee could delay preparations for the 2006  Winter Games and hamper the gathering of much-needed funds, the  city's mayor said Monday.
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BEIJING -- Ticket prices at the 2008 Beijing Olympics will range from $3.82 to $638 when they go on sale next year.
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Some 1.5 million Chinese have been forced from their homes during preparations for the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, a rights group said Tuesday.
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China has allocated nearly 1.6 million tickets to more than 300,000 people for next year's Beijing Olympics in the first round of booking, the official Xinhua news agency reported on Friday.