America has missed an opportunity to reimagine an urban area at a time when China has proved that no project is impossible.

The decision to take a 45-year-old farmer into custody reflected the extreme irritability to even minor protest actions that gripped Beijing during the Olympics.

The government is taking a step to shore up the reputation of that most dubious of national sports icons: the men?s soccer team.

In its post-Olympic era, the question is whether the success of the games will lead China to domestic reforms or convince leaders that their current model is working.

With another dramatic fireworks display Sunday evening at the National Stadium here, the Beijing Olympics came to a dazzling close, ending two weeks of spectacular athletic performances.

Slowly, tattooing is overcoming an ancient stigma in Beijing.

For a thousand years, the Daur people of Inner Mongolia have been playing a game called beikou, a close sibling of field hockey.

The Dalai Lama said that China had increased repression of Tibetans during the Olympic Games in Beijing, and he urged China to ?march toward democracy.?

The requested investigation would determine whether members of the Chinese women?s team that won the gold medal were too young to compete in the Olympics.

Two elderly women were sentenced to a year of labor after seeking to demonstrate in an official Olympic protest area.