To Save Olympic Sailing Races, China Fights Algae

In the city of Qingdao thousands of people are mobilized to clean up an algal bloom choking the coastline and threatening to impede the competition.

Taiwan’s Olympic title fuels controversy

The head of the Sports Affairs Council said Taiwanese athletes would drop out of the Games if Beijing insisted on referring to the nation as ‘Taipei, China.’

China Sets Zones for Olympics Protests

The Chinese government will permit public protests inside three city parks, but demonstrators must obtain permits and abide by laws that usually make political demonstration nearly impossible.

China Presses Hush Money on Grieving Parents

Local governments have begun a campaign to buy the silence of parents whose children died in the earthquake.