Posted ndotnanda  on Local  0   230 days ago www.businessweek.com   Add to Topic

Thanks to a surge of foreign and domestic travelers, mainland tourism is booming as the Olympics near. Ritz-Carlton and Wyndham are riding the wave.

Posted sivakumar  on Politics  0   238 days ago www.ndtv.com   Add to Topic

Bush urges China to initiate talks with Tibet - US President George W Bush has asked his Chinese counterpart to re-open dialogue with the representatives of the Dalai Lama to solve the Tibet crisis.

Posted socializer  on Politics  0   340 days ago en.beijing2008.cn   Add to Topic

The number of rail transport riders per day grew from 1.7 million before the opening of subway Line 5 on October 7 to 2.7 million today, according to city officials.

Posted socializer  on Sports  0   340 days ago en.beijing2008.cn   Add to Topic

BOCOG President Liu Qi made a detailed presentation via teleconference on Tuesday to the IOC Executive Board in Lausanne on the preparatory work for the 2008 Olympic Games.

Posted scooper  on Entertainment  0   366 days ago in.news.yahoo.com   Add to Topic

BEIJING (Reuters) - French climber Alain Robert, the famed "Spiderman" who was briefly jailed in May and then deported for scaling Shanghai's tallest building, was back in China at the weekend, but this time going ...