Mr Abbas is due to leave Beijing tonight, with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu heading from Shanghai to the capital tomorrow.

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For now, there are no plans for the children to leave Beijing.

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It's a sad certainty: Mere months, if not weeks, after the hordes leave the Olympic village in Beijing, most of the competitors--even the medalists--will slip from international consciousness.

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In fact, the company is so pivotal that the general manager apologized for having to leave the meeting for a brief period to take a call from Beijing.

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Recently her 14-year-old brother joined her in Beijing: Mrs Liu says she knew that he would leave when he returned home crying from school, because other pupils had nicer houses, and electricity.

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Beijing was built to show off the power of the emperor and leave visitors in awe.

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But she had been ordered to leave her betrothed and her chosen profession to become a steel worker hundreds of kilometers from Beijing.

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