New Delhi, August 22: Authorities in Beijing claim that food supplies for the Olympics are "100 percent" safe, and that not even one accident has been reported thus far.
Tang Yunhua, spokeswoman for food safety coordination with the Beijing Food Safety Administration Office, has revealed that supervisors have monitored over 1.6 million shares of food since the Olympics started.
Beijing - Prime Minister Gordon Brown met with Chinese President Hu Jintao Friday, telling China's leader that the Beijing Olympics were a "spectacular success" and that London would try to follow the new standard set by Beijing when it is host to the Games in 2012, Chinese state media reported.
"With the whole world watching, the Beijing Olympic Games have captured the imagination of the whole global community," said Brown, according to Xinhua news agency.
China is ready to share its experiences of hosting the Olympics, said Hu.
Brown will attend the Games closing ceremony on Sunday during which the Olympic flag will be formally handed over by China to Britain. London is hosting the 2012 Olympics.
Beijing - The over-budget Beijing Olympic Games will still not register a deficit, Wei Jizhong, the Chinese Olympic Committee's former general-secretary, was quoted by state media as saying Friday.
The total cost of the Games was recently estimated to be 2.2 billion US dollars, far exceeding the original 1.6 billion dollars estimate made by China when it bid for the Olympics back in 2001, Wei was quoted by the Xinhua news agency saying.
But revenue was also likely to have surpassed projections, he said, without disclosing figures.
Beijing - An international human rights group on Friday urged China to stop torturing Liu Jie, an activist who is serving 18 months in a labour camp for organizing a petition signed by more than 12,000 people seeking political reforms.
The group, Chinese Human Rights Defenders, said in a statement that Liu has been subjected to torture since August 15 when she was beaten by a guard in a labour camp in northern China's Heilongjiang province for confronting him about the mistreatment of a fellow detainee.
During the beating, Liu pushed the guard in an act of self-defence, according to the rights group.
The camp accused Liu of attacking its staff and, as punishment, forced her to sit on a "tiger bench."
Beijing - A second earthquake in two days hit a border region in south-western China, killing three people and injuring more than 80, news reports said.
The magnitude-5.9 quake struck Thursday night in the Yinjiang region close to the Myanmar border in Yunnan province, the official Xinhua news agency said.
More than 120,000 people evacuated the quake-hit area. A day earlier, a magnitude-5 quake damaged a number of buildings in the same county.
New Delhi, August 22: Authorities in Beijing claim that food supplies for the Olympics are "100 percent" safe, and that not even one accident has been reported thus far.
Beijing - The over-budget Beijing Olympic Games will still not register a deficit, Wei Jizhong, the Chinese Olympic Committee's former general-secretary, was quoted by state media as saying Friday.
Beijing - A second earthquake in two days hit a border region in south-western China, killing three people and injuring more than 80, news reports said.
