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Chinese State Councilor Liu Yandong met with U.S. billionaire Bill Gates and Microsoft’s chief executive officers here on Monday, agreeing to a stronger collaboration between the software giant and China’s education and science sectors.
He welcomed Gates visit for the Olympics, saying the ongoing Games fully depicted itself as a “Green Olympics, High-Tech Olympics and the [...]
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Indian tennis queen Sania Mirza is assured of a large fan following in Beijing even if she fails to impress on the Olympic courts.
A poll by Chinese news agency Xinhua in 2006 rated Mirza, now 21, among the top 10 tennis beauties in a list headed by Gabriela Sabatini and featured, among others, Chris Evert, [...]
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Abhinav Bindra gave India its first gold medal at the Beijing Olympics when he won the 10 metres air rifle event on Monday morning.
The 25-year-old Indian shooting ace, who qualified in fourth place for the final, finished with an overall score of (596+104.5) 700.5 in a thrilling finale which went right down to the last [...]
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