Winning only a matter of time

If ratified as expected, golf will once again be declared an Olympic sport in 2016. As a result of this decision, the game will truly become a global pastime.

Pumping it

She does not look like a champion weightlifter, but Wang Luo is no lightweight either.

Getting the right fit

The fitness industry in China has changed immensely.

Nuclear family: Insuring crucial strategic facilities

Risk management in nuclear projects is of strategic significance in every country, and nuclear insurance plays a vital role, said Wu Gaolian, chairman of China Nuclear Insurance Pool (CNIP).

China Re eyes IPO in bid for global market

China Re is set to go public at "a proper time" as part of its bid "to become the world's leading reinsurance holding group", said Liu Feng, board chairman of the company.

Dream comes true

"One world, One dream". A national 100-year-old dream of China is coming true with the opening ceremony of the 2008 Beijing Olympics to be held tonight.

Paradise for all athletes

The largest non-competition venue for the Olympic Sailing Competition, the Qingdao Olympic Village is located in Qingdao Olympic Sailing Center, just across the street to the sailing competition venue.

Olympic spirit breezes into the city

Everyone coming to Qingdao is surrounded by the warmth of the Olympics, with landscape sculptures, huge billboards and flying five-ring Olympic flags at every corner of the city.

Good luck, Beijing!

Life Culture

Hope amid devastation

After having braved days of landslides and aftershocks, Cheng Weidong finally reached Luobu village. He paused outside its makeshift shelters, unable to think of a suitable question to ask the Qiang minority friends he had made just five months earlier.

Preserve Qiang culture

The Qiang is one of China's oldest ethnic minorities, the character qiang appeared on jiaguwen (hieroglyphs inscribed on bone and tortoises shells) 3,000 years ago.