They marched in the streets and gave artistic performances at the New Haven Green, a public park in downtown New Haven, Connecticut, next to Yale's Old Campus buildings.

In San Francisco, some 5,000 people from the Chinese community participated in the two-hour mass rally in front of the CNN's local office building, calling for the firing of Cafferty and a sincere apology by the CNN to ethnic Chinese people all over the world.

Holding U.S. and Chinese flags and banners and condemning CNN commentator's racist remarks and the TV network's biased Tibet coverage, the demonstrators chanted slogans like "CNN liar, Cafferty fire," and marched along a stretch of a downtown street after the rally.

In Canada's downtown Vancouver, about 5,000 Chinese Canadians gathered Saturday to voice their support for the Beijing Olympics and denounce CNN's biased coverage of the riots in Tibet.

With the theme of "Condemning the Separatist Violence, Denouncing the Media Bias, and Supporting the 2008 Olympics," the event started with a peaceful rally at the Sun Yat Sen Square in the Chinatown in Vancouver, Canada's gateway to the Pacific, following similar events that took place in such Canadian major cities as Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal and Edmonton, which are homes to large Chinese communities.

In the Swedish capital of Stockholm, thousands of ethnic Chinese residing or studying in this European country took to the streets on Saturday afternoon to condemn the Tibetan separatists' attempt to sabotage the Olympic Games.

They waved China's national flags, held banners supporting the Beijing Olympics and chanted such slogans as "Tibet, Part of China Forever," "Beijing Welcomes You" and "No Distorted Report."

Setting out at the Mynttorget Square, the protestors marched through the downtown areas before arriving at the Sergelstorg Square. There some demonstrators delivered speeches, condemning attempts to sabotage the Olympic torch relay and some Western media's biased reports on China.

According to a leading organizer of the event, the gathering marks the biggest of its kind by ethnic Chinese in Sweden.

In New Zealand's Auckland, thousands of ethnic Chinese, despite heavy rainfall, Saturday took to streets, waving China's national flags, holding banners and chanting such slogans as "No distorted report," "No Politicization of Olympics" and "Tibet of China, Olympics of the World."

All in red, the color of China's national flag, or wearing T-shirts with such words as "Support Beijing Olympics," they also sung China's national anthem to express their love for China and the Olympics.

Some of them delivered speeches at the gathering, condemning attempts to sabotage the Olympic torch relay and to blacken China.

(Xinhua News Agency April 28, 2008)