In conformity with the requirements of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), international rules and Beijing’s bid pledges, BOCOG will provide standardized, diversified and personalized transport services for an estimated 50,000 people attending the 2008 Olympic and Paralympic Games, a BOCOG official said on Tuesday.Clients include members of the Olympic Family, athletes, team and technical officials, […]
 Beijing has attached great importance to upgrading food safety citywide as a precondition to ensuring food safety for the upcoming Olympics, an official said on Thursday.
Since 2005, the city has engaged in an all-around effort to improve food safety, with guidelines already formulated, said Tang Yunhua, a spokesperson for the Beijing Municipal Office for Food […]
Famous American swimmer Mark Spitz predicted on Sunday that the opening and closing ceremonies of the Beijing Olympic Games would be the best in the history of the Olympics.　　He made the remarks as a guest of the awarding ceremony of this year’s Laurence Prize, Xinhua reported.
　　China owns a time-honored and unique culture, and the Olympic […]
World player of the year Kaka said Thursday he hopes to play for Brazil in Beijing Olympic Games in August.AC Milan’s striker Kaka has won almost every club and individual honor there is in football except one title, that of Olympic champion.
Indeed, it is the only title Brazil have yet to win despite being crowned […]
With more than five months to go until the Olympics, Beijing residents are making progress with their etiquette, as indicated by a “city index.”    A survey released by Renmin University found that in 2007, 2.54percent of people still spat in public, down by 2.36 percentage points from 2006.
    Over the past three years, the poll surveyed more […]
Beijing Shougang Group, one of China’s leading steel manufacturers and also the city’s major polluter, extinguished the fire in one of its four blast furnaces on Saturday, as part of its pledge to cut its normal output by half during the Olympics.    The fire was quenched in the No. 4 blast furnace, which had been in […]
Beijing, host city of the upcoming summer Olympics, will have special teams to conduct daily safety checks of its huge water network.    ”The team will consist of more than 300 patrol staff and 400 maintenance workers doing round-the-clock checks and maintenance of the water pipelines and ground water systems,” said Yu Yaping, an official with the […]
