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Thursday, May 15th, 2008
Torchbearer Wang Rushen holds up the torch during the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games torch relay in Ruijin, southeast China's Jiangxi Province, on May 14, 2008.
(Photo credit: Zhang Wu/Xinhua)
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Thursday, May 15th, 2008
Updated：2008-05-12
Jinggangshan is located in the southwest of Jiangxi province. It has a population of 149.7 thousand and covers an area of 1291.5 square kilometers. The city is an old revolutionary base.
Jinggangshan is known as "the cradle of China's revolution." In August 1927, Mao Zedong, along with other ...
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Thursday, May 15th, 2008
The last torchbearer kindles the cauldron at the end of torch relay in Jinggangshan.
JINGGANGSHAN MOUNTAINS, Jiangxi Province, May 15 (Xinhua) -- As the Olympic flame shed light Thursday on Jianggangshan Mountains, the relay organizers and torchbearers were heavy-hearted for victims of a deadly earthquake in southwest China.
Donation boxes were placed along ...
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Saturday, December 15th, 2007
Liu Qi (R) meets Aaron Peskin.
(BEIJING, November 26) -- BOCOG President Liu Qi met with the visiting president of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, Aaron Peskin, here Monday afternoon.
Liu welcomed the guest and said that the Chinese government would further strengthen support for the preparatory work, as this year ...
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Saturday, December 15th, 2007
Filming begins for volunteer song music video
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(BEIJING, December 2) -- Laughter and fun abounded at Beijing's Shimao Tianjie Sunday evening when various winners from the hit singing competition shows "Happy Boy" and "Super Girl" gathered to begin filming the music video for a Chinese song to encourage Olympic volunteerism. ...
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Saturday, December 15th, 2007
(Lausanne, December 12) -- IOC President Jacques Rogge expressed his satisfaction over the preparatory work for the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games, including the construction of the Olympic venues on Wednesday.
Rogge was present at a press conference held at the end of a three-day meeting of the Executive Board of the ...
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Saturday, September 15th, 2007
With Apple holding a press event in London next Tuesday, expectations are running high that the iPhone will make its long-awaited European debut. But if the iPhone is unveiled next week, will it be in its current form or as a 3G handset? The answer to that question could go ...
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Wednesday, September 12th, 2007
Five years after the arrest of six young men from Lackawanna, N.Y., questions remain about whether the so-called "homegrown terrorists" are as dangerous as authorities initially suggested. The Jihad Next Door, a book by NPR's Dina Temple-Raston, explores the subject. Temple-Raston discusses the case against the Lackawanna Six with Steve ...
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Wednesday, September 12th, 2007
We love low prices, sure, but we frown at the things companies do to get us good deals — like paying low wages. In his book Supercapitalism, economist Robert Reich looks at the divided mind of the consumer and citizen.Reich subtitles his book "The Transformation of Business, Democracy, and Everyday ...
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Tuesday, September 11th, 2007
A new survey shows that an increase in health insurance rates this year is less than the increase last year. But, that's not necessarily good news to the employers or employees who pay the premiums.Every year, the Kaiser Family Foundation asks 2,000 small, medium and large businesses what they're doing ...
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