9/08/2008 | Local authorities were relieved that the threat of boycotts never materialised, but the debate surrounding Beijing's poor air quality continued to rage in the aftermath of the opening ceremony.
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9/08/2008 | AS COLIN Poon quipped yesterday: "What Olympics?"
"They timed it badly," the Australian-born Chinese bridegroom said of last night's opening ceremony. It definitely was not on ...
9/08/2008 | A CONTROVERSIAL advertisement aimed at putting pressure on Prime Minister Kevin Rudd over Tibet was due to screen on Channel Seven last night before the Olympics opening.
Earlier in the day there ...
9/08/2008 | AT AN unscheduled walk in Beijing's main shopping strip, the Wanfujing Mall, near Tiananmen Square and the Forbidden City, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd was mistaken for his predecessor, John Howard, ...
9/08/2008 | An eight became a perfect 10 in Beijing last night.The opening ceremony of the 29th Olympics Games began at precisely 8pm on the eighth day of the eighth month, 2008.
9/08/2008 | The author Naomi Ragen has many passions, some contradictory, writes Jason Koutsoukis.
9/08/2008 | The Olympics have emerged as a sweeping victory for the Chinese Communist Party's finely honed propaganda machine, write John Garnaut and Hamish McDonald.
9/08/2008 | For the first time since Sir Edmund's death seven months ago, Peter Hillary reveals the influences of a father and great mountaineer.
9/08/2008 | WASHINGTON: Spread John McCain's message online and you could win valuable prizes. That's the essence of his campaign pitch for supporters to join an internet effort with "reward points" akin to those offered by airlines and other businesses.
9/08/2008 | With the West outgunned on propaganda, the fight for the hearts and minds of Afghanistan is going backwards, writes Paul McGeough.
9/08/2008 | IT HAS been a bad year for the President of Pakistan, Pervez Musharraf. He was humiliated in February when his closest political allies were thrashed in national polls. His popularity rating has since slumped into single figures.
9/08/2008 | A fingerprint on a wine goblet may prove the undoing of a wanted man, writes Michael Levenson.
9/08/2008 | THE words of the Bhagavadgita, the songs of a Hindu mystic and the teachings of Mahatma Gandhi have all found a place in a controversial Bible published in India.
8/08/2008 | An eight became a perfect 10 in Beijing tonight. If the first 30 minutes are an indicator, the world may never witness a ceremony of the magnitude and ingenuity as that which opens the 2008 Olympics at the National Stadium in Beijing - affectionately dubbed the Bird's Nest.
| Beijing 08: Let the games begin
8/08/2008 | It's been seven years in the waiting, but the countdown to tonight's opening ceremony of the 29th Olympic Games is on in earnest.
8/08/2008 | US president voices deep concerns about religious freedom and human rights in the world's most populous country.
8/08/2008 | THERE was a Prime Minister, an ex-prime minister and a princess all in the ballroom of the Sofitel Beijing. And all three were treated like groupies, swarmed by hundreds of members of the Australian O...
8/08/2008 | ASSOCIATED costs such as cancelled air fares and accommodation will not be refundable to victims of the Beijing Olympics ticketing scam through their credit-card providers because the purchases cannot...
8/08/2008 | When Gaza's powerful tribes came up against the Hamas government, something had to give, writes Paul McGeough.
8/08/2008 | THE Israeli Prime Minister, Ehud Olmert, has announced the release of 150 Palestinian prisoners as a personal gesture to the Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas.