Beijing says 15,000 relocated for Games venues
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Just under 15,000 people were moved from their homes to make way for the venues of the Beijing Olympics and all moved voluntarily with compensation, officials said on Tuesday, countering rights groups' allegations that hundreds of thousands had been evicted.
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Thousands of trees will be planted at the fire-ravaged birthplace of the ancient Olympic Games to restore the area ahead of the Beijing 2008 flame-lighting ceremony in March, officials said Tuesday.
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International Olympic Committee President Jacques Rogge tried to erase Beijing&#39;s money worries Monday, saying that hosting the Games will benefit the country.
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Some 1.5 million residents of Beijing will be displaced by the time the city hosts the 2008 Olympics, many of them evicted from their homes against their will, a housing rights group said on Tuesday.
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Thousands of athletes, sports officials and visitors to Athens began leaving the Greek capital Monday in a mass post-Olympic exodus.
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Two of 12 new Beijing Olympic venues have been completed and could be handed over to officials as early as next week.
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Five cities of London, Madrid, Moscow, New York and Paris have submitted their bids for the 2012 summer Olympic Games to the International Olympic Committee (IOC),it was announced by IOC on Monday.
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ATHENS, Greece -- The closing ceremony of the Athens Games is underway in front of a crowd of 75,000 at the Olympic Stadium. The arena, which has been the main venue for the sporting carnival for the past
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CHINA intends to make Olympic history by staging part of the 2008 Beijing Games outside its own territory. Top officials have suggested sending Olympians three hours by plane from the Olympic village on the
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Hundreds of thousands of athletes,  officials and visitors waved goodbye to Athens in a  post-Olympics exodus Monday, leaving city officials to probe a  doping scandal that tarnished an otherwise dream Games.
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Text of report in English by official Chinese news agency Xinhua (New China News Agency)  ["Three Gorges Project Official Says Relocated Residents To Reach 1.35 Million" - Xinhua headline]  Yichang, Feb.
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On Aug. 8, when the Beijing Olympics begin in promised splendor, a few may reflect on how far or how fast China has come to host this high mark of international prestige.
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Determined to avoid a repeat of the construction delays that threatened the Athens Games, Olympic officials arrived in Beijing on Wednesday.
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Yesterday's report that the Summer Olympics have uprooted more than 2 million people over the past two decades touches a nerve with Beijing, which reportedly will have moved out nearly that many to prepare for next year's Games.
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Three cities &amp;#151; two from Europe and one from Asia &amp;#151; made the cut Thursday as the IOC trimmed the field for the 2014 Winter Olympics.
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Beijing has received its first shipment of Olympic-standard sand -- 1,400 metric tons of it -- which will be used to create the beach volleyball venue, state media reported on Saturday.
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A final group of more than 100,000 people will be forced to relocate by the end of next year to make way for the Three Gorges Dam