The organizes or Vancouver 2010 Olympic and Paralympic games met yesterday for the 3rd time this year discussing adding new communities to the 2010 Olympic Torch relay and the ticket sales of the Vancouver's next year Olympic Games in this current economic condition.

Fireforks created a heavy smog over the "Bird's Nest" in Beijing as the Olympic Opening Ceremony got off to a spectacular start. This is the time and day that China and the entire world has waited and was looking forward to.

Traveling via 433 different torchbearers, the Olympic flame finally reached Li Furong, vice president of the Chinese Olympic Committee. As the last torchbearer, Li lit the fire cauldron at the historic Temple of Heaven to end the first day of the Torch Relay in Beijing.

If the Chinese state television CCTV had not announced that the images were being broadcast from Tibet, the average viewer could have thought the Olympic flame was being carried through a typical Chinese city in the mountains. The Olympic torch was carried by Chinese athletes and the spectators were also Chinese. There was not a Tibetan in sight.

The Olympic torch set out from Norbulingka, starting its journey in Tibet's capital Lhasa, literally means "place of the gods", on Saturday.

The Olympic flame reached the top of Mount Everest on Thursday, an emotional moment for China and the crowning of the Beijing Olympics torch relay that was dogged by anti-Chinese protests on its world tour.

The Beijing Olympics torch relay was held on Tuesday behind closed doors under blanket security in Indonesia amid Chinese anger at protests over its human rights record.

A Japanese Buddhist temple is refusing to host the Olympic torch relay when it comes to Japan next week, to protest China's crackdown on Tibetan unrest.

Following a 22-hour stay in Pakistan, where it was kept off the streets, the Olympic Torch heads to India. In New Delhi, thousands of security personnel have being mobilized to protect the traveling symbol of the games.

Countries across Asia are stepping up security as the Olympic torch relay comes to the region this week with stops in Pakistan, India, Thailand and several other nations.

The Olympic torch arrived in Oman Monday where it is expected to have a protest-free visit - the torch's sole Middle East stop on its way to Beijing.

The Olympic torch relay in Oman's Muscat, the ninth stop of its global journey, started on Monday afternoon.