Tuesday, April 1, 2008

Bejing Olympics News - 1st April 2008 - 2

"Freedom" buttons for the Beijing Olympics
By Paul Schmelzer(Paul Schmelzer)
The World Association of Newspapers and World Editors Forum are calling on the president of the International Olympic Committee to confront China over its lack of press freedoms. In a letter to Jacques Rogge, the organizations referred ...

Report: Merkel to miss Beijing Olympics
By TAC
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has become the first world leader to announce she will not be at the Summer Olympics in Beijing, a German official confirmed. Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier, in addition to confirming Merkel's ...

Pro-Tibet supporters repeat call for Beijing Olympic boycott
Euronews.net - Lyon,France
... around the world where pro-Tibet supporters and monks demonstrated outside Chinese embassies to repeat calls for a boycott of the Beijing Olympics. ...

US Olympic Committee and GE Announce Research Partnership to ...
FOXBusiness - USA
For the Beijing Olympic Games, the Henry Ford investigators want to assess whether changes in ligaments, cartilage and muscle that are seen before the ...

Editorial: Beijing Olympics
Philadelphia Inquirer - Philadelphia,PA,USA
The Olympics never should have been awarded to Beijing. A boycott by only some countries, though, wouldn't hurt China as much as it would the athletes who ...

Roundup Prices Rising
KWTX - Waco,TX,USA
(March 31, 2008) -- China's effort to clean up it's environment for the 2008 Bejing Olympics is causing the price of chemicals used to control weeds to ...

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