CANBERRA, Australia: Thousands of pro-Chinese supporters swamped the route of the Olympic torch as it passed through Canberra. Busses full of Chinese students started arriving in Canberra in the early hours of the morning. Rainy Wang, a hospital management student…

POLICE detained dozens of protesters and clashed with Chinese torch attendants as they struggled to prevent today’s rowdy Canberra torch relay descending into chaos. At one stage, violence between hundreds of rival protesters threatened to spiral out of control as…

A supporter of the 2008 Beijing Games looks at the sky while a plane writes -Free Tibet- during the Olympic torch relay in Canberra April 24, 2008. REUTERS/Daniel Munoz (AUSTRALIA) A skywriter commissioned by Australian Greens leader Bob Brown has…