Word: beijingers
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
On August 8, the 2008 Olympic Games will open in Beijing. The eyes of the world will be upon China, as tourists and television viewers from every country tune in. Hundreds of world leaders, including President Bush, will be in attendance. Medals will be won, records will be broken, and...
When China successfully bid for the Olympic Games in 2001, its government pledged to use them as a stepping-stone towards democracy. As Liu Jingmin, a top Beijing Olympics official, told the International Olympic Committee at the time, “By allowing Beijing to hold the Games, you will...
The contingent may have been small, but the Harvard women’s swimming team was well represented by its three-woman squad at the NCAA championship meet on March 20-22.Senior Samantha Papadakis, sophomore Alexandra Clarke, and freshman Kate Mills each qualified in multiple events for the three-day competition...
The Chinese government says that Japan left some 2 million chemical munitions - shells, bombs and barrels of deadly agents such as mustard gas, phosgene, hydrogen cyanide and lewisite. The Japanese Cabinet Office, which handles issues related to the weapons, declined to estimate the number, but Japanese officials have previously said...
Zhou Tong and Liu Hao were among those unlucky enough to learn first-hand about the lingering danger. The two boys, aged 12 and eight at the time, were playing in a river in northeastern China's Jilin Province in 2004, when they came into contact with toxins that had...