New Delhi, July 31  A spokesman for the Beijing Olympic Games said here on Thursday

New Delhi, July 31 : A media official attached with the Beijing Olympic Games Organising Committee (BOGOC) has expressed his disappointment over a South Korean TV station broadcasting footage of a dress rehearsal of the Beijing Olympics opening.

“We are disappointed they did that, but the fragments cannot give the audience a full picture of the opening ceremony,” said Sun Weide, a media official with the organizing committee of the Beijing Games, Xinhua reported.

“Let’s wait for the wonderful performances when the Games open on August 8,” he said at a press conference.

New Delhi, July 31 : A pet dog has miraculously survived for 70 whole days under the rubble after the devastating earthquake that hit China on May 12.

On the fateful day of the earthquake, the pooch named Wang Wang was at home while owner Fei Hongwei and her husband were out at work.

Then, the earthquake hit, completely destroying their house, reports China Daily.

It was not until July 22, when Fei was finally permitted to go back to salvage what she could from the ruins.

To her surprise, she discovered her dog was still alive and now Wang Wang lives with its owner in their new home in Deyang, Sichuan province.

Beijing - A South Korean cameraman has managed to provide the first glimpse of what people can expect to see at the Olympic Opening Ceremony on August 8 in Beijing.

The man smuggled a camera past the tight security controls at the National Stadium before filming a costume rehearsal.

The footage shows the unrolling of a huge script, hundreds of dancers, drums, Kung Fu and traditional Chinese figures floating through the air.

Images of swimming whales were projected on to the stadium roof while a representation of the Earth was positioned in the centre of the arena.

Chinese Olympic organizers expressed disappointment Thursday that that the Seoul Broadcasting System had decided to broadcast the footage.

Beijing - Chinese Olympic officials have promised the 2008 Games will be "clean" with a radical new procedure being used to prevent doping, Wu Moutian, deputy director of the Chinese Anti-doping Agency, said on Thursday.

The largest Olympic doping testing station ever will be set up in the Olympic Village with the central laboratory able to test for 200 internationally forbidden substances.

"Every one positive will be announced," said Wu.

Each case detected will be penalised, promised Chen Zhiyu, doping official for the Beijing Organising Committee.

Beijing - China plans to take more vehicles off the roads and suspend operations in more than 200 factories if air quality does not improve, the government announced Thursday, as polluted air and grey skies continued to plague Beijing one week before the start of the 2008 Olympic Games.

If the air quality forecast is "extremely unfavourable" 48 hours in advance, authorities are to consider requesting Beijing, the neighboring Tianjin municipality as well as Hebei province to carry out emergency measures, the website of the Ministry of Environmental Protection said.

It was unclear whether monitoring would begin right away or 48 hours before the games are scheduled to begin on August 8.