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BEIJING (AP) _ A top Chinese union official is blaming foreign
businesses for alleged labour abuse _ including child labour _ in
the production of official Olympic-licensed products in southern
China.
``We welcome foreign companies that respect Chinese laws and look
after their workers,'' Xie Liangmin, a senior official with the
All-China Federation of Trade Unions, said Tuesday in the state-run
China Daily newspaper. ``Those relying on cheap labour and making
profits by violating workers' rights will finally ...
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LONDON (AP) _ The 2012 London Olympics will produce the greatest
long-term benefits of any host city since the 1992 Barcelona Games,
Mayor Ken Livingstone said Tuesday at the start of a key IOC
inspection visit.
Organizers focused on the redevelopment legacy of the Olympic
Park in east London in their opening meetings with the International
Olympic Committee's coordination commission.
After the Games, 9,000 houses will be built in or around the park
as part of a 20-year ...
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VANCOUVER (CP) _ An anti-poverty protester who threatened to
evict members of the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympic Games organizing
committee from their homes and offices has been arrested.
Vancouver Police Department spokesman Tim Fanning says Saturday's
arrest of David Cunningham was made so he could be issued a peace
bond to stay away from members of the organizing committee.
Last week, Cunningham spoke about individual VANOC members during
a protest outside the organizing committee's building while a ...
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BEIJING (AP) _ Organizers for the 2008 Beijing Olympics announced Thursday what will be the longest torch relay in the history of the Games, tracing a route that covers five continents and makes politically sensitive stops in Taiwan and Tibet.
At a ceremony attended by senior members of China's ruling Communist Party and the International Olympic Committee, organizers said the route will cover 137,000 kilometres, last 130 days and reach ...
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LONDON (AP) _ The overall cost of staging the 2012 London Olympics was set at more than nine billion pounds (C$20.5 billion) Thursday by the British government, three times the original estimate.
After months of media reports of soaring costs, Olympics Minister Tessa Jowell announced in parliament that the final budget was 9.325 billion pounds (C$21.1 billion).
The total includes 5.3 billion pounds (C$12.1 billion) for construction of venues and ...
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A smaller aquatics centre is planned for the 2012 Olympics in an effort to cut spiraling costs.
The original project had threatened to double its US$142.5 million budget, so Olympics minister Tessa Jowell instructed architect Zaha Hadid to come up with a cheaper and less ambitious design.
London 2012 chairman Sebastian Coe said Monday the cost of the scaled-down venue, which will host swimming and diving events but not water ...
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The 2012 London Olympics will make a profit despite a 40 per cent increase in the projected overall cost, Mayor Ken Livingstone said Wednesday.
Livingstone said costs overruns were ``inevitable.''
Olympics Minister Tessa Jowell said Tuesday that infrastructure costs had risen by 900 million pounds (C$1.98 billion) from the amount quoted in the bid.
The final budget hasn't been formulated yet, but some British lawmakers have speculated the total cost ...
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Organizers of the 2012 London Olympics visited Barcelona on Thursday to see how the Spanish city was transformed by hosting the 1992 Games.
``We have come to Barcelona to look and learn,'' Olympics Minister Tessa Jowell said in a statement. ``What they have achieved continues to inspire us and to prove that hosting the Games really can change a city and a country for the better.''
Jowell, London organizing committee ...
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The budget for the 2012 London Olympics will be ``significantly higher'' than originally quoted because of increased costs of security, regeneration and contingency plans.
The original budget called for 2.38 billion pounds ($5.12 billion Cdn), but Olympic officials reviewed the cost of the Games after London won the right to host the event in July 2005.
Olympic Delivery Authority acting chairman Roy McNulty said Wednesday he hoped a new budget ...
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The president of the International Olympic Committee expressed concern Thursday about the plight of athletes in Iraq, citing threats to their safety and the lack of proper athletic infrastructure in the country.
Jacques Rogge, in Cuba to attend the Sport for All Congress, said the IOC plans to ``offer Iraqi athletes the possibility of training in other nations'' ahead of upcoming competitions.
Gunmen abducted a top Iraqi basketball official and ...
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The 2012 London Olympics will be a ``huge target''
for possible attack if the terrorist threat level remains as high as
it is now, London's police commissioner said.
Police are already working on detailed security plans for the
Summer Games, Metropolitan Police Commissioner Ian Blair said
Thursday.
Blair said a new assistant commissioner would be appointed to
handle security for the Olympics, which officials are touting as an
opportunity to revitalize poor areas of the capital.
``There can be ...
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A prominent American sports architectural firm was picked Friday to design the main Olympic stadium for the 2012 Summer Games in London.
HOK Sport, which has designed dozens of major league baseball parks across the United States, is part of the Team McAlpine Consortium picked to deliver the showpiece venue for the games.
The Kansas City-based firm will design the 80,000-seat stadium to host Olympic track and field events and ...
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A month after chipping in an extra $55 million to the Vancouver Olympics' stretched construction budget, Ottawa has ordered an audit of the 2010 Games organizing committee to see how federal tax dollars are being spent.
A contract tender was posted quietly at the beginning of this week by Department of Canadian Heritage, which handles the federal contribution to the Games, including $290 million for building Olympic venues.
The call ...
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A report says the Department of Canadian Heritage is hiring an auditor to check over the books of the Vancouver Olympics Organizing Committee (VANOC).
The report on CBC Radio says a call for tenders was issued to provide the federal department with assurances about VANOC management's preparations for the 2010 Winter Olympics.
The report says the audit will check management controls, risk-management frameworks and the overall governance structure.
VANOC spokeswoman ...
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