2008 Beijing Summer Olympics

Yesterday, during a grandiose ceremony that took place at Olympia in Greece, the flame for the 2008 Olympic Games in China was lit. The actresses playing the role of ancient priestess from the Temple of Hera offered the spectators present at the site and the TV audience an impressive show broadcasted worldwide.
The flame was lit […]

Several hundred Tibetan activists marched though New York Monday calling for a boycott of the Beijing Olympics and urging the United Nations to listen to their appeals for independence from China.
Waving Tibetan flags and banners reading “China out of Tibet Now!” and dragging a Chinese flag along the ground, marchers chanted anti-Chinese slogans accusing Beijing […]