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Beijing praised Nepal on Wednesday for banning anti-China protests by Tibetan exiles earlier this year and detaining demonstrators, actions that helped bring the Olympic torch to the top of Mount Everest.
BEIJING (AFP) - The number of foreign tourists to China fell in the first 10 months of the year and the global economic crisis was expected to make things worse next year, authorities said in comments published Wednesday.
BBC Television Centre. Photograph: Martin Argles/Guardian The BBC could face a battle with pay TV companies to keep its exclusively live coverage of the Olympics after the 2012 games. Yesterday the BBC's collective bid, made...
