Hu Jia could be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize to continue human rights pressure on China after the Beijing Olympics

The 2008 Paralympics ended yesterday with host nation China again leading all comers with 89 gold, 70 silver and 52 bronze medals to clinch the top post, barely a month after also winning the main Olympics proper in Beijing.

BEIJING (Reuters) - The main reason why no protests were held during the Beijing Olympics in specially designated demonstration zones was because all the issues were resolved ahead of time, state media said on Thursday. The city was widely ridiculed by human rights groups for not allowing a single legal protest in the three demonstration zones it had set up to counter criticism Beijing was crushing dissent to prevent disruptions to last month's meticulously planned Games. But for most the cases,

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BEIJING (AFP) - Beijing has decided not to make measures that limited car use during the Olympics permanent, state media said Sunday, despite considerable public backing of curbs that brought the cleanest air in years.

Chinese national pride after the Olympics and distress over inflation combined to produce a leftward shift in Hong Kong legislative elections.

Chinese national pride after the Olympics and growing distress over inflation combined to produce a leftward shift in Hong Kong legislative elections on Sunday.

Chinese national pride after the Olympics and growing distress over inflation combined to produce a leftward shift in Hong Kong legislative elections on Sunday.

HOUSTON (Reuters) - Former U.S. sprinter Marion Jones left a federal prison in Texas on Friday after serving a six-month sentence for lying to prosecutors about steroid use that helped her win five medals at the 2000 Sydney Olympics.

SWIMMERS will hold a Beijing Olympics postmortem in Germiston tomorrow with Swimming SA administrators, and Katheryn Meaklim, competing at the South African short-course championships in Germiston this weekend, promised yesterday the swimmers would not hold back.