China posts greatest Olympic gold haul ever BEIJING (AFP) - China on Sunday ensured its home Olympics will go down as its greatest ever after its women's table tennis team won the hosts' 33rd gold of the Games to overtake its previous best tally at Athens in 2004. China leaders grapple with political aftershocks Chinese leaders moved to contain the political aftershocks of last week's deadly earthquake, promising a big rebuilding fund, reining in the recently aggressive media and trying to keep despair from turning to anger in the disaster zone. China orders budgets cut to feed $10B relief fund A woman trapped in a tunnel at a power plant was rescued nine days after an earthquake struck central China -- the only person found alive Wednesday -- while the government ordered budgets slashed to free money for relief efforts.
China charge, SKorea champion dumped in Olympics table tennis BEIJING (AFP) - China's table tennis giants marched into the quarter-finals of the men's singles Thursday, but Olympic champion Ryu Seung Min was sensationally dumped from the tournament on a day of upsets.
China posts greatest Olympic gold haul ever BEIJING (AFP) - China on Sunday ensured its home Olympics will go down as its greatest ever after its women's table tennis team won the hosts' 33rd gold of the Games to overtake its previous best tally at Athens in 2004.