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News of Beijing
The history of Earth Day
Since the beginning of time, at least for us humans, the earth has been ravaged by us over and over again. We continue to plunder and destroy nature, abuse natural resources and pollute the atmosphere, oceans and terrain with chemicals. A few weeks ago, Beijing was drowning in foggy polluted air, (...)

22 - 04 - 2013
المنافس الصيني لجيب رانجلر ستطرح في الأسواق في أغسطس القادم
اعلنت شركة بكّين أوتو “Beijing Auto” للمرة الثانية مؤكدة هذه المرة ان انتاج B40 سيبدأ بشهر اغسطس من العام الجاري. وقد اعلنت الشركة سابقاً ان السيارة سيبدأ انتاجها بشهر فبراير من 2013 ولكن تم تأجيلها. احد الجهات الاعلامية صرحت ان احد اسباب تأخر الأنتاج كان لرغبة الشركة بتغيير المحركات المحدد (...)

11 - 04 - 2013
London 2012: Egypt's El Geziry sets modern pentathlon Olympic record in swimming
El Geziry won the 200-meter freestyle in 1 minute, 55.70 to improve his own four-year-old best mark from the Beijing Games by 0.16. He is placed fifth in the overall ranking before the remaining two events - riding and combined event. (For more sports news and updates, follow Ahram Online Sports on (...)

11 - 08 - 2012
Ghana's Asamoah helps Juventus to Super Cup victory
Juventus beat Napoli 4-2 to win the 2012 Italian Supercup in Beijing on Saturday after scoring twice in extra time. The match came a day after Juventus coach Antonio Conte was suspended for 10 months for his role in a domestic match-fixing scandal. Edinson Cavani put Napoli ahead in the 27th (...)

11 - 08 - 2012
London 2012: Defar outsprints Dibaba to regain 5,000 title
Ethiopia's Meseret Defar sprinted past compatriot Tirunesh Dibaba on Friday to reclaim the Olympic women's 5,000 meters title she won in 2004. Dibaba, chasing an Olympic distance double-double after retaining her 10,000 title last week, had no response to Defar's turn of speed and faded to third as (...)

10 - 08 - 2012
London 2012: Jamaica's Bolt coasts into Olympic 200m final
The world's fastest man sped to the 100m and 200m titles in Beijing in 2008 and on Sunday secured the former once more in scintillating style. In Thursday's 200m final he will go for a double-double that, in his own words, will make him a legend. The 25-year-old world record holder finished his (...)

08 - 08 - 2012
Tennis: Wimbledon repeat: Federer-Murray face off in final
Roger Federer has "been around the block," as he puts it. The Swiss star has played for major titles, for the record books, for a place in tennis history. On Sunday, he plays for Olympic gold in singles. That's new even for him. The final will be a rematch of the game the top-ranked player won on (...)

05 - 08 - 2012
London 2012: Usain Bolt advances to Olympic 100 semifinals
Bolt dominated the Beijing Games four years ago, winning golds in world-record times in the 100, 200 and 4x100 relay - something no man had ever done at an Olympics. At the 2009 world championships, he lowered his 100 mark to 9.58, which still stands. But he's been less-than-outstanding more (...)

04 - 08 - 2012
London 2012 Day 3: Lithuania's teenage star Meilutyte claims swimming gold
The teenager made her intentions clear throughout the rounds, setting a new European record in the heats, and was fastest into the final. Meilutyte led from start to finish and held off a fast-finishing Rebecca Soni, the Beijing silver medallist, to win in 1:05.55. While the youngster's achievement (...)

31 - 07 - 2012
Swimming: Park reinstated to men's 400 freestyle final
Park, defending the Olympic title he won in Beijing four years ago, was initially disqualified after officials ruled that he false started in his morning heat but won an appeal to overturn the decision. (For more sports news and updates, follow Ahram Online Sports on Twitter at @AO Sports and on (...)

28 - 07 - 2012
Death toll from Beijing storm jumps to 77
BEIJING - The death toll from Beijing's heaviest rainstorm in six decades more than doubled to 77 after rescuers found more bodies, the official Xinhua news agency said on Thursday, citing the city's municipal government. Saturday's storm flooded roads, sent torrents of water tumbling down steps (...)

26 - 07 - 2012
Olympic silver medalist Rose withdraws from London
Australian rider Shane Rose has withdrawn from the Olympic equestrian competition because his horse, Taurus, was ruled out with a leg injury. Rose, a silver medalist in three-day eventing at the 2008 Beijing Games, will be replaced by traveling reserve Megan Jones and her horse, Allofasudden. Her (...)

22 - 07 - 2012
Hand, foot and mouth disease kills 17 in China
BEIJING - Hand, foot and mouth disease killed 17 people and infected nearly 35,000 others in China's central Hunan province in June, according to the official Xinhua news agency, quoting information supplied by local authorities on Sunday. Officials at the provincial Centre for Disease Control and (...)

15 - 07 - 2012
Ai Weiwei lawsuit gets unusual nod from Chinese court
A Chinese court will open hearings on Wednesday on an unusual lawsuit by dissident artist Ai Weiwei, who is challenging a 15 million yuan ($2.35 million) tax evasion penalty imposed on the company which markets his work Ai, whose 81-day detention without charge last year sparked an international (...)

16 - 06 - 2012
Tennis: Andy Murray treating Olympics like a Grand Slam
The fourth-ranked Briton, who has never won a major, lists Wimbledon and the Olympics as his priorities this season, above the French Open and U.S. Open. ''Tennis at the Olympics has become a big deal,'' Murray said Tuesday. ''Everybody plays it now. Ten or 15 years ago, guys were skipping the (...)

10 - 04 - 2012
Arrested Hong Kong Billionaires Deny their Charges
The billionaire brothers and co-chairmen of Hong Kong developer “Sun Hung Kai Properties Ltd" denied any wrongdoing and insisted it was business as usual on Tuesday, in their first public appearance since their arrest on suspicion of corruption. Raymond and Thomas Kwok were arrested last week by (...)

03 - 04 - 2012
Swimming: Freestyle champion Bernard fails to qualify
Yannick Agnel clocked 48.02 seconds, a personal and French best this season, to win ahead of Fabien Gilot, fifth in last year's world championships, who finished in 48.38 seconds. They both qualified for the Olympics with times below the required 48.82 but were much slower than the 47.10 set by (...)

22 - 03 - 2012
Vegetable orchestra: Chinese brothers' unusual instruments
Two brothers from Beijing have carved out an unusual career - making musical instruments from carrots, potatoes and other vegetables. Nan Weidong and Nan Weiping have been making playable flutes with everything from leeks to carrots. Frequent projects see them using a sweet potato as an ocarina, a (...)

12 - 03 - 2012
Ethiopia clears Olympic champion Bekele, 34 others
Ethiopian Athletics Federation President Bisrat Gashawten Tirfe tells The Associated Press “we have agreed to discuss all the matters concerning their problems” after the athletes were reinstated. They were suspended last week for not reporting to a training camp. Bekele won the 5,000 and 10,000 (...)

24 - 01 - 2012
Apple تتوقف عن بيع iPhone 4S في الصين لحماية موظفيها
أعلنت Apple بأنها ستوقف مبيعات جهاز الiPhone 4S في الصين بسبب أحداث العنف التي جرت هناك، فقد قام الزبائن الغاضبون برمي مبنى الشركة الرئيسي بالبيض في منطقة Beijing. فقد اصطف الزبائن لساعات طويلة في درجات حرارة منخفضة لشراء الجهاز ليم بعد ذلك إخبارهم بأن المحل لن يتم فتحة لبيع الأجهزة، و جاءت رد (...)

13 - 01 - 2012
Tennis: Djokovic pulls out of China Open
The 24-year-old Serb, winner of three grand slam tournaments this year, retired from a Davis Cup match against Argentina's Juan Martin del Potro this month because of the injury. "Before he set out to Beijing, Djokovic had another physical check. Unfortunately, the result showed that he didn't (...)

29 - 09 - 2011
Bai Ling reveals dark memories of Chinese army
Actress Bai Ling said she is confronting a dark chapter from her past: sexual abuse she suffered as a teenager at the hands of Chinese army officers. Bai, 44, who was a soldier in a People's Liberation Army performance troupe from age 14 to 17, told The Associated Press in a recent interview that (...)

04 - 07 - 2011
Chinese artist Ai Weiwei: Free in body, not voice
Outspoken artist and government critic Ai Weiwei talked about giving himself a haircut Thursday but said little else in his first day out of detention, living under a gag order that underscores concerns about China's growing use of extralegal methods to muzzle dissent. The Chinese Foreign (...)

23 - 06 - 2011
Beijing detains illegal church members on Easter
Chinese police detained at least a dozen Christians belonging to an unregistered Beijing church as the congregants gathered Sunday to hold Easter services. Police stopped the worshippers from the unregistered Shouwang church at they gathered near a public plaza in the city's university district, (...)

24 - 04 - 2011
Alleged Egyptian spy for Israel: I was tortured to confess
The second session of the trial of Tarek Abdel Rasek Hassan, an Egyptian accused of spying for the Israeli intelligence agency Mossad, witnessed several surprises on Monday. The defendant's lawyer was permitted to talk to his client in private. He sat with Hassan for 15 minutes and emerged to (...)

17 - 01 - 2011
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