Olympics: Beijing seeks 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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Beijing is considering suspending or reducing a 20% tax on bank savings in China, state media reports.
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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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The uncertainly over a budget for London's 2012 Olympic Games is a threat to its success, a report warns.
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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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BEIJING - Days after the euphoria of its record gold medal haul in Athens, China announced a sobering plan to delay construction of some venues for the 2008 Olympics and confirmed plans to cut down the extravagant features of two main stadiums here.
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Beijing Olympic Games organizers allocated just one-quarter of 1.8 million tickets available in the latest lottery sale of seats, officials said on Sunday, creating a new ticketing headache for the event.
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China would not need "one cent" of foreign financial support to hold the Beijing Olympics, which are expected to turn a profit of about $20 million to $30 million, according to a senior Games organizer.
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British Olympic Association to review athletes' contract for Beijing following concerns over free speech
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Trying to keep a low pre-Olympic profile, Beijing is enlisting help from abroad to discourage Taiwan's separatist president
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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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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.
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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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BEIJING -- Red-faced organizers of the Beijing Olympics threatened Monday to cancel the contracts of companies using child labor and violating minimum-wage rules to make Olympic-licensed products.
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The International Olympic Committee (IOC) on Wednesday said 2008 Games host Beijing should take care not to complete its venues too late, two months after it advised the city not to finish them too early.
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International Olympic Committee President Jacques Rogge tried to erase Beijing&#39;s money worries Monday, saying that hosting the Games will benefit the country.
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Beijing should not wait too long to complete venues for the 2008 Olympics, a top official from the International Olympic Committee said in the capital yesterday.