The Beijing Municipal Public Security Bureau has said it will offer rewards of up to 500,000 yuan for information on major security threats during the Olympic Games.

MEDIA SERVICES

Beijing has made a commitment to ensure press freedom during the Games.

On Tuesday, three major media services facilities for the Games -- the Main Press Center and the International Broadcasting Center for 21,600 registered reporters, and the 2008 Beijing International Media Center to serve some 5,000 unaccredited reporters, opened.

Foreign journalists should complain formally if they have any official problems in doing their jobs during the Games, senior leader Li Changchun said on Thursday when visiting the International Media Center.

The government and the Beijing Olympic organizing committee have issued rules and a reporting guidebook for foreign journalists.

Li said officials would effectively implement the regulations that ensured foreign journalists would be allowed the freedom to report.