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World News tagged with olympics

Police Given Powers to Enter Homes and Tear Down Anti-Olympics Posters During Games | Mail Online
World  (tags: 'CIVILLIBERTIES!', Olympics, Great Britain )

Barbara
- 126 days ago - dailymail.co.uk
Police have been handed 'Chinese-style' powers to enter private homes and seize political posters during the London 2012 Olympics.
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Can China Avoid a Post-Olympic Economic Downturn?
World  (tags: China, Economy, Olympics, Business, Recession )

Jollygirl
- 319 days ago - currencytrading.net
Economic analysis indicates that countries that host the Olympic Games typically suffer from economic decline and currency depreciation in the months following its conclusion.
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China's Totalitarian Games--WHAT THE OLYMPICS COST THE "PEOPLE"
World  (tags: CHINA, OLYMPICS, government, 'HUMANRIGHTS!', china, children, terrorism, violence, freedoms )

Brenda
- 458 days ago - boston.com
Well, the Games have certainly had a lasting effect on one part of Chinese society - the 1.5 million men, women, and children expelled from their homes in Beijing to make room for the construction of Olympic facilities and urban beautification projects.
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IOC To Launch Investigation Into Ages Of Chinese Gymnasts
World  (tags: china, olympics, IOC )

Michael
- 461 days ago - huffingtonpost.com
Questions about the ages of at least three of the athletes on China's team have swirled for months. Records and newspaper accounts suggest three Chinese gymnasts ay be as young as 14, A gymnast must be 16 in an Olympic year to compete at the games.
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The Olympic Sport of Politics
World  (tags: Olympics )

Michael
- 467 days ago - socialistworker.org
Politics lurks around every corner of the Olympic Games--from who sits on the International Olympic Committee to how host nations are chosen.
7 comments
China Today: Nepal Arrests Anti-China Tibetans & Olympic Clean Up in Beijing
World  (tags: Beijing, Nepal, Tibet, Olympics, 'HUMANRIGHTS!', china, HumanRights, humanrights, tibet, violence )

Joanna
- 476 days ago - news.bbc.co.uk
Hundreds of Tibetans have been arrested during a protest against Chinese policy on the eve of the opening of the Olympics in Beijing. What covers a 10-foot-tall brick wall in Beijing?
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Media Censorship at Olympics in China Mirrors FDA Censorship of Health Product Claims in America
World  (tags: china, conflict, freedoms, humanrights, Olympics )

Michael
- 480 days ago - naturalnews.com
The U.S. media is loudly protesting the censorship of their reporters at the Olympics in Beijing. Betraying its promise to the IOC, China has blocked reporters' access to "sensitive" websites, including those that mention human rights violations.
5 comments
Crimes Against the People Continue in the Wake of August 8
World  (tags: Olympics, 2008 Olympics, China, Chinese government, human rights, jail, innocent people, supression )

RC
- 482 days ago - washingtonpost.com
The Chinese government continues its sweeping efforts to sequester dissidents before the opening ceremonies of the 2008 Olympics. Thousands, including innocents who have gone to Beijing seeking seeking justice from the government - jailed!
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Despite Reduced Driving Directive, Beijing Air Pollution Increases
World  (tags: Beiijing, China, pollution, air pollution, Olympics )

RC
- 490 days ago - washingtonpost.com
The International Olympics Committee says that endurance events for the 2008 Olympics may have to be postponed due to smog. Although the Chinese government has imposed an every-other-day driving regulation, Beijing's pollution index has risen all week.
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U.S. Team to Provide All Olympic Athletes With Masks
World  (tags: pollution, olympics, world, government, China )

Elena
- 493 days ago - olympics.thestar.com
Along with their array of world champions and specially imported food, the U.S. Olympic team will be bringing a "top secret" weapon to China - custom-designed masks.
4 comments
In Turnabout, China Says It Will Meet With Dalai Lama's Envoys
World  (tags: tibet, olympics, beijing, china, HH Dalai Lama )

Live
- 579 days ago - news.yahoo.com
Will it change anything or is it just for show. Take a guess
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Korean Environmental Leader Refuses the Olympic Torch
World  (tags: 'CIVILLIBERTIES!', 'HUMANRIGHTS!', asia, china, ethics, politics, world, olympic, olympics, Korea, olympic torch )

Gavin
- 583 days ago - ecoworldly.com
Choi Seung-kuk, the Secretary General of Green Korea, has officially bowed out as an Olympic torch bearer. Mr. Choi cited China's aggression in Tibet as his main reason for refusing to carry the Olympic torch.
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China Keeping Tibet Closed to Tourists
World  (tags: china, news, Olympics, foreign tourists )

Dana
- 595 days ago - news.yahoo.com
BEIJING - Chinese authorities jittery about protests during the Mount Everest leg of the Olympic torch relay have abruptly reversed a decision to reopen Tibet to foreign tourists.
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Chinese Paramilitary Thugs Policed London Torch Relay
World  (tags: olympics, china, 'HUMANRIGHTS!', 'CIVILLIBERTIES!', corruption, ethics, crime, conflict, terrorism, tibet, violence )


- 596 days ago - prisonplanet.com
Fresh outrage has erupted over the Olympic torch procession after it emerged that the blue-clad thugs witnessed manhandling protesters and barking orders during the torch relay in London were Chinese paramilitary police hired by Beijing and the British go
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Unmasked: Chinese Guardians of Olympic Torch
World  (tags: olympics, violence, china, conflict, corruption, 'CIVILLIBERTIES!', 'HUMANRIGHTS!', ethics, crime, humanrights )


- 596 days ago - prisonplanet.com
China's blue-clad flame attendants, whose aggressive methods of safeguarding the Olympic torch have provoked international outcry, are paramilitary police from a force spun off from the country's army.
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