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From the blog at Shanghaiist.com comes an interesting glimpse into the culture of China's state security. Shanghaiist obtained an Olympic security document posted publicly in Tomorrow Square, the fifth-tallest building in Shanghai and the home of the Marriott hotel. The...
A report released on Thursday by the World Health Organization predicts that one billion people will die from tobacco-related causes during the twenty-first century if current consumption trends continue. New York...
Update | - 200,000 attended Obama's speech in Berlin, the Associated Press has updated. " Barack Obama Thursday told a vast crowd of 200,000 people in Berlin that Americans and Europeans must tear down walls between...
Five of China's six Olympic host cities have banned foreign businessmen from making non-urgent visits until after the Olympics."Authorities in Beijing, Shanghai, Qingdao, Shenyang and Qinhuangdao will no longer...
Starting Thursday, people can get the latest Beijing weather updates by calling a new Olympic hotline. "Beijing's weather authority launched a hotline Thursday to offer comprehensive meteorological information about...
Adam van Koeverden -- former Olympic kayaking gold medalist and world-record holder in the k-1500 m -- has been named Canada's official flag-bearer for the Beijing Olympics. I remember watching his gold medal win...
This is a developing story. We welcome your news, comments, or relevant photos.Xinhua is reporting that a magnitude 6.8 earthquake hit northeastern Japan on Thursday morning. See here for the original report...
The most popular 50, 000 terms on the German Wikipedia website will be turned into a 750 page book, a German publisher announced last week, at the Wikipedia conference in Alexandria, Egypt."That means France's first...
On Tuesday, the Chinese government gave reporters a chance to test-ride the new Beijing-Tianjin high-speed train before its official opening next Friday. One Reuters correspondent was impressed, noting that the train...
July 21 | -I walked into the Folk Fest on Sunday morning as The Sojourners wrapped up their set with “Children Go Where I Send Thee,” a gospel standard about sending kids to Bethlehem in various denominations:...
This is a developing story. We welcome your news, comments, or relevant images. Radovan Karadzic -- a former Serb politician indicted for war crimes in 1996 -- was arrested today, the BBC reports. "Bosnian Serb...
