NEW DELHI -- The Beijing Olympic torch relay is taking on political overtones in India, with one movie star saying he'll run it "for the people of Tibet" and the national soccer team captain bowing ...
On March 31, 2008, a ceremony to launch the torch relay preceding the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games was held in Tiananmen Square. President Hu Jintao personally lit the flame in a special cauldron during ...
BEIJING – China's grandiose plans for the torch relay, the high-profile prelude to the 2008 Beijing Olympics, have been engulfed in conflict by an old political rival — Taiwan. Within hours of Beijing ...
BEIJING (Reuters) – The Olympic torch begins its three-day relay on Wednesday, its path abbreviated by COVID-19 and nothing like the 130-day, 137,000 km (85,130 mile) odyssey that proved a magnet for ...
The Olympic torch begins its three-day relay on Wednesday, its path abbreviated by COVID-19 and nothing like the 130-day, 137,000 km (85,130 mile) odyssey that proved a magnet for protest ahead of the ...