BEIJING — Eight hours after Dara Torres won the last of her three silver medals in swimming, all that stood between her and her mother was a malfunctioning sound system.
BEIJING — After 10 hours of questioning and 7 more locked up alone in an interrogation room, Wang Jun was shown the door of a police station on Thursday night and given some parting instructions: Keep your name off the Internet, move to another part of town and do not talk to anyone but yourself.
BEIJING — In six hours of meetings, at two dinners and during a stilted 30-minute news conference in which President Hu Jintao did not allow questions, President Obama was confronted, on his first visit, with a fast-rising China more willing to say no to the United States.
BEIJING — For 3½ hours, China's President Xi Jinping commanded the stage and the nation's television screens as he set out a far-reaching agenda for the Communist Party, outlining a vision of total control, not only of the nation's economy and the Internet but also of culture, religion and morals.
BEIJING — In the chaotic hours after Lhasa erupted March 14, Tibetans rampaged through the city's old quarter, waving steel scabbards and burning or looting Chinese shops.
BEIJING — A lavish four-hour Lunar New Year show televised to millions across China on Thursday night set off a flood of indignation with its caricatures featuring blackface and African men in animal suits.
BEIJING — During a two-hour television broadcast that was part morality play, part propaganda tour de force, the Chinese government on Friday sent four foreign drug traffickers to their deaths after convicting them of killing 13 Chinese sailors two years ago as they sailed down the Mekong River through Myanmar.
BEIJING — More than 24 hours had passed since Usain Bolt's redefining of the 100 meters, and Ato Boldon, the voluble Trinidadian who used to run the 100 for a good living, was still trying to comprehend what he had seen.
BEIJING — More than 48 hours after a car mowed down pedestrians and burst into flames at Beijing's Tiananmen Square, the Chinese government broke its near-silence on the incident and characterized it as a "terrorist attack".
BEIJING — When the Beijing Olympic Games kicked off two weeks ago with a four-hour spectacular, more than 840 million people in China tuned in, perhaps the largest television audience in history for a single event.
