China and America, according to much U.S. Olympic commentary, offer a study in contrasts. Though to international audiences, recent events reveal how much, not little, China and the U.S. have in common.
Maybe the AP's version of overt gender stereotyping is actually preferable to the more insidious undercutting that happens in papers across the country every day -- not just in athletics.
Beijing's health authorities distributed 400,000 free condoms in over 400 hotels in the Olympic city in a bid to raise awareness of safe sex and AIDS ...
If you thought Americans were talking a lot about the size of the Ralph Lauren logo on the U.S. Olympians' outfits as they entered the Bird's Nest dur...
Humberto Leon and Carol Lim, the owners of the designer store Opening Ceremony (so named after their love of the events), are attempting this weekend ...
For many people who do not have the opportunity to come to China personally, mere exposure to negative news about human rights and pollution will only produce biased people with incomplete knowledge regarding China.
Beijing is inside a "bowl" formed by mountains to the north that help to trap pollution over the city. And because athletes will be ingesting more air than an average person, the hazard for them is even greater.
The truth is Bush doesn't have a choice: He has to be nice to the Chinese by going to the Olympic ceremonies. His policies have made the President of the United States beholden to Chinese capital.
Despite ruling it out earlier, Beijing will ban one million vehicles from its streets for three months in an attempt to clear the air and roads ahea...
Chinese cheerleaders bear a close resemblance to "I Dream Of Jeannie" as they warm up before the start of the Xinjiang leg of the Olympic torch relay ...
BEIJING — Cheering mountaineers raised the Olympic torch at the summit of the world's highest peak Thursday, producing the triumphant image that...
At the Athens Olympics in 2004, steel magnate Lakshmi Mittal, like millions of other Indian sports fans, was distressed: There was hardly anyone to ch...
