HOHHOT, Aug. 9 (Xinhua) -- China held a rain reduction drill here Wednesday to ensure that the opening and closing ceremonies of the Beijing Olympic Games next year will not be interrupted by rain. Three planes carrying 30 technicians flew...

The abbot of Shaolin Temple, Shi Yongxin, gives a memento to International Olympic Committee President Jacques Rogge during his visit on Thursday to the temple on Songshan Mountain in central Henan Province. Rogge was in China for the celeb...

The gotobeijing family (BEIJING, August 8) -- Having had a wonderful duck experience at the famous roast duck restaurant Quan Ju De, the Olympic families couldn't wait to go to the Great Wall, which is also the last stop of their tour in Be...

Scene of the closing session of Chefs de Mission Seminar (BEIJING, August 9) -- The three-day Chefs de Mission Seminar of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games ended Thursday. Representatives of more than 200 national and regional Olympic committe...

The three-member USA1776 family tours Palace Museum. (BEIJING, August 8) -- We will be back in 2008, said a member of the family with online name of USA1776 on Wednesday. The family was on a 12-day tour of China together with nine others wh...

For accountant Liu Yu, the worst part of her working day is usually the journey home. Long waits at the bus stop, large crowds and no air conditioners on buses like the Yuntong 101 will soon be just a bad memory for Beijing ers as the city...

A new tract of forest will be added to Beijing s green Olympic legacy. Led by International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Jacques Rogge, officials from the Beijing Olympic Organizing Committee and more than 200 chefs de mission, who are...

The dreams of the Marino family came true when they were named as one of the winners of the Web-based Olympic Families Tour Beijing competition. It's a great, great dream. We never thought we could make it, Argentinian businessman Vicente A...

A total of 2008 Zheng-lovers dressed in traditional Chinese clothes play the famous Chinese melody Jasmine in Yangzhou, east China's Jiangsu Province, August 8, 2007, celebrating one-year countdown to the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. Zheng i...

BEIJING, Aug.7 (Xinhua) -- Beijing will set aside special road lanes and some trunk lines totaling 200 km for the 2008 Olympics which will take place a year from now, an official with the Beijing Organizing Committee for the Olympic Games (...