It's a bit scary looking at going into such a tournament the Games in March but when you look ahead to Beijing it's very exciting for New Zealand basketball.
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Chang is looking forward to the 2008 Olympics in Beijing. He served as a Goodwill Ambassador for China, helping the nation get the bid. It's very exciting, ... It will be great for China to show the world what it can do.
Overall, we see the year ahead as one with great potential. The tourism infrastructure is growing, and the region is gearing up for events such as the Beijing 2008 Olympics. We hope that national tourism organizations, policy makers, tourism operators and regional merchants will find this information useful in better understanding travelers' concerns and thereby stimulate even more business for this most exciting part of the world.
So, I lived at the Beijing Opera, I ate there, I learned a craft. And the money we made went into the company.
We hope this agreement will foster an environment in which London and Beijing can become closer business partners and develop a deeper cultural understanding through the exchange of tourists and students.
I feel very sorry for the one or two North Korean defectors who were caught by Chinese police while entering South Korean or foreign embassies in Beijing, but their arrest drew the whole attention of the world.
We sincerely ask the Beijing authorities across the Strait to view the election result from a positive perspective, to accept the democratic decision of the Taiwanese people.
Both agreed that the next round of six-party talks should focus on issues related to the North's dismantlement of its nuclear programs and the verification of that dismantlement, ... They both agreed that the agreement signed in Beijing by the six parties was the binding text for parties, including on the question of light water reactors.
Squash has the credentials to become an olympic event and our goal is to see the sport in the 2008 Beijing Olympics. We are working towards this and will keep trying even if our bid is not successful.
The purpose of holding the commemorative meeting is to reiterate our solemn commitments to the principles of the UN Charter and the implementation of the 2000 Millennium Development Goals and the Beijing Declaration and the Platform for Action,
I was at a meeting two years ago in Beijing, and I passed a bunch of women who were marching in a protest. Their signs were probably saying something I wouldn't have agreed with at all. But I was so glad to see women marching. And it's happening all over the world.
One of the optimists is eco-designer Bill McDonough , whom we bumped into in Beijing, at the Fortune Global Forum this May. As chair of the China-U. S. Center for Sustainable Development, he believes China will be forced to become a leading incubator of environmental innovation simply because the in-country collision between people's needs and the ability of natural systems to support them is already so acute. As he notes, The Chinese have to build new housing for 400 million people in 12 years. ... While Europe has been a driver for innovation in cleaner technologies, China promises to be its market.
With the Summer Olympics in Beijing fast approaching, we hope the Chinese government will take action to restore the damage that the fur industry has done to the country's international reputation.
I wanted to do something far from my intellectual and physical home, so I went to live in Beijing for eight months and took Mandarin Chinese.
Beijing is just testing its wings as a global player. This agreement is a major sign of China having achieved that stature.
Our policy for the last many years has been to deter the Chinese government in Beijing from ever coming into the position where they thought they had enough leverage over the U.S. to cross the Straits of Taiwan.