For marketers looking to capitalize on a newly crowned champion, the wounded hurdler will likely go down as the Beijing Olympics' biggest disappointment.
Usually Science requires that researchers file their sequences in GenBank, a freely accessible database, before they are allowed to publish, as the Beijing institute has done.
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With the world's eyes on China as the Beijing Olympics looms, the country is touting its concern about animal welfare as a mark of a civilised society.
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The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States recently approved the sale of Complete Genomics, based in Mountain View, California to China-based BGI (formerly known as the Beijing Genomics Institute).
Yao also captained the Chinese team as hosts at the 2008 Beijing Games, as well as taking the role of flag-bearer in the opening ceremony.
Often the favourites - as he certainly was in Beijing - it seems as if the huge expectations placed on South Korean archers have simply proved too much.
In fact, in the course of a long career in the Foreign Service, Freeman served in capacities - notably as ambassador to Saudi Arabia and as the number two man in Embassy Beijing - where the job often is seen as representing the host government to his own, rather than the other way around.
Luke's Medical Center in Manila, says the private institution is "better equipped than 90% of hospitals in the U.S." Bangkok's high-tech Bumrungrad Hospital has also geared up to meet this demand, as has the newly opened Beijing United Family Hospital, which caters to wealthy Chinese as well as expatriates.
Chen was relishing the renewal of his apartment lease, normally a mundane affair but currently no small feat in Beijing as the clock ticks toward the start of the Olympic Games on August 8.
One is that of an active, open participant in the globalized economy, as signified by Beijing's accession to the World Trade Organization a decade ago.
But Wood said the U.S. government decision is no surprise to Beijing, as the Chinese were briefed "several" times about the impending deal.
He worked as an adviser to the Beijing dealership of Aston Martin, the British sports-car maker.
The real estate market has impacted the economy as Beijing corrals developers in an effort to avoid an explosive housing bubble.
He said he saw deeper engagement with Beijing as the way ahead.
But Radcliffe insists the strong field will be good for her as she builds up to the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
Twenty minutes after Yang won China's maiden gold medal, 16-year-old Ye Shiwen triumphed in the women's 400m medley, as well as breaking the world record set in Beijing four years ago.
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Britain's track and field athletes were absent from the ceremony as they are yet to travel to Beijing from the team's Macau training camp.
After years of growth in the major coastal cities, such as Shanghai and Beijing, interest has grown in the booming and vast interior of the country.
One of the world's leading engineering firms, they have already been responsible the City of Manchester Stadium, the Allianz Arena in Munich as well as the main Olympic venues in both Sydney and Beijing.
He did not make the final of the Beijing Olympics 100m in 2008 as he attempted to come back from a hamstring injury at the US Olympic trials that knocked him out of the 200m.
And as Blumenthal notes, the US needs Beijing's help in convincing North Korea to give up its nuclear program.
Beijing, as of the 13th of this month, maintained that oil was still coming out of the wells.
The annual gross domestic product target this year is the same as that set by Beijing for 2012.
Jamaica's police chief has studied in Beijing as well as the United States.
Over the intervening years, most other countries have come to recognise the government in Beijing as China's authentic one.
As Beijing prepares to host the summer Olympic Games in less than three months, officials were quick to report that the city's dozens of Olympic venues were built to withstand earthquakes and that none had suffered damage.
The devastation comes as China is preparing to host the Olympic Games, which begin in Beijing on Aug. 8.
It may require intermediate measures, such as Beijing's accession to the World Trade Organization.
Only Germany has serious trade with China, as it makes the machinery and motor vehicles Beijing is buying in large quantities.
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