The relay and the torch were unveiled in a ceremony at the Millennium Monument in west Beijing, before an invited audience of 2008 guests. Your best source of news about the Olympic is ...

She was the last of five climbers -- three Tibetans and two Han Chinese -- to pass the torch ... the main Olympic flame, now making a course across China en route to host city Beijing -- to ...

With a slogan of “Lighting the Passion, Sharing the Dream”, the Beijing Olympic Torch will be passed across five continents around the world. Outside of China, the relay will be running from April 1 ...

Athletes Rev Up for Start of the Beijing Games Crowds cheered Thursday as the Olympic torch made its way through ... ahead of its hosting of the 2008 Olympic Games. Scott Tong, China bureau ...

Pro-Tibet demonstrators also disrupted the Olympic torch relay in London in April ... way in atoning for the disastrous build-up. Beijing 2008 provided China with a huge opportunity to showcase ...

David Perry, spokesman for the San Francisco Olympic Torch Relay ... the Olympic flame on its way to the Summer Games in Beijing may make 2008 the last time such an ambitious global torch relay ...

Thirty-seven people were arrested yesterday during the torch’s 31-mile ... state media in Beijing blamed a “few Tibetan separatists”. But pressure on China has been stepped up by the head of the ...

06 Sep 2007 During a ceremony held at the China Millennium Monument, the Beijing 2008 Organizing Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games (BOCOG ... BOCOG also officially launched the Beijing ...

Taipei Opposition Favors Torch Visit The Kuomintang Party will work with Beijing to bring ... sailing venue for the 2008 Games in Qingdao. (ATR)dining rooms at the Olympic Village, Media Village ...

In the years since he took part in the Olympic torch relay, Beijing has imposed harsh policies on the Uyghurs, splitting apart Kamaltürk Yalqun’s family. In a letter, the group asked the IOC to ...