- Hua Guofeng, who briefly ruled China as communist founder Mao Zedong's successor but was pushed aside by Deng Xiaoping as a prelude to reforms that launched an economic boom has died<img src...
2008-08-20 11:00:00
- New Delhi, Aug 20 ANI: Beijing Olympic Games may become the biggest broadcast event in the Olympic history, according to an official with the International Olympic Committee IOC.Timo Lumme, managing director of IOC Television and Marketing Services, said at a press conference in the Games' Main Press Center that there is an unprecedented amount of Olympic sports content available, with around 5,000 hours of coverage provided for viewers in around 200 countries and regions worldwide through the rights holding broadcast partners.Lumme claimed that during the Beijing Games, these partners are expected to make a combined total coverage, which will be around three times that of the Athens Games, reports Xinhua.He also hailed the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympic Games as a sports-related event with the highest broadcast rating in the history of Chinese television."A staggering 842 million people in China tuned in to watch some coverage of the Opening Ceremony," he said."Although we won't have the complete definitive global statistics for sometime yet, indications suggested that the figure for the total viewing in the world could be around 1.2 billion people," he said.Lumme added that the figures from the major markets of the world had in general surpassed those for the opening ceremonies of the Sydney and Athens Games.In the US, NBC also registered the largest audience on Aug 16 night for 18 years as over 40 million viewers tuned in to watch Michael Phelps win his record eighth gold medal at one Games.In China, over one billion people have already watched some Olympic sports coverage. Lumme said that to cater for this demand, CCTV, IOC's broadcast partner in China, has dedicated a total of nine channels to the Games' overage. ANI
2008-08-20 09:00:00
- New Delhi, Aug 20 ANI: Hollywood actress Kate Hudson is desperately trying to rekindle her romance with ex-flame Owen Wilson, it has emerged.According to reports, the actress has been bombarding the actor with plenty of phones calls.The 'How to lose a guy in 10 days' actress, who has recently split with cyclist Lance Armstrong, wants to fall back in the arms of Wilson.Although the cute actor was initially wasn't interested, he is now considering rebuilding their relationship for a third time, the pals added."He was frosty at first, he felt betrayed when she dumped him for his friend Lance, but after a while, he caved in and has been sweet to her," China Daily quoted a source, as saying.Although both Hudson and Wilson may reconcile, the latter's pals are worried that Wilson may have his heart broken again."It's not fair to Owen, because he really cares for her and ends up getting hurt," an insider said. ANI
2008-08-20 09:00:00
- Beijing, Aug. 20 ANI: China's sport authorities have banned the issuing of Internet domain names based on the country's Olympic gold medal-winning athletes to anyone but the medalists themselves.According to Xinhua, the step is being taken to prevent commercial exploitation of sports people's names and follows the public controversy over the commercial use of the names of gold medalists at the Athens Games in 2004. The China Internet Network Information Center CNNIC and the General Administration of Sport GAS have demanded a veto over the registration of domain names featuring the names of Chinese gold medallists.A CNNIC official surnamed Hu said: "The move will better protect the interests of the Olympic gold medallists."The domain names would be given free to the gold medalists to build their own sites.Those who had already registered before the GAS order could keep the the domain names, but were advised to give it to the medalist "as a gift", the CNNIC said in a notice on its website.The protection of domain names is especially difficult in China, where thousands of people can share the same name or the same spelling of their name in Pinyin.ore than 9,000 people are reported to share the name of diving diva Guo Jingjing, excluding those whose names bear the same Pinyin spelling.China has so far collected a record 43 gold medals at the Beijing Games.The Beijing News has reported that domain names featuring at least 10 gold medalists, including weightlifter Chen Xiexia, who bagged China's first gold this year, and gymnast Yang Wei, were registered before the Games. ANI
2008-08-20 09:00:00
- In Beijing, China, last week, the International Olympic Committee IOC finally bowed to popular opinion by stripping the United States of AmericaUSA of the Sydney 2000 Olympic gold medal in 4x400 metre...
2008-08-20 08:57:38
- Leader of the Team Nigeria delegation here in China Dr. Amos Adamu had warned Dream Team players not to be overconfident going into Saturday's final against Argentina....
2008-08-20 08:50:38
- There have been scenes of joy in Nigeria after their Olympic football team reached the finals in China....
2008-08-20 08:50:38
- In the latest signal that China's leaders will tolerate no dissent during the Games, Wu Dianyuan, 79, and Wang Xiuying, 77, were interrogated for 10 hours and sentenced to one year of "Re-edu...
2008-08-20 08:40:39
- Hua Guofeng, handpicked by a dying Mao Zedong to succeed him as Communist Party chairman but toppled by reformist leader Deng Xiaoping has died, aged 87....
2008-08-20 08:36:04
- When Pam Chang asked for a recipe for a birthday cake like the sponge cakes from Chinese bakeries, Denise Lai knew just what to suggest. She sent a Norwegian recipe. ...
2008-08-20 08:28:19
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