From the San Francisco Chronicle: From Beijing’s official Web site for the 2008 Summer Olympic Games comes this dandy item: “The city Ethics office also proposed that swearing at sporting events, whether in Mandarin or local dialect, be added to the list of social ills to be stamped out.” The list includes smoking, spitting jumping […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua, via Crienglish: The girl carefully pasted the card with her signature on an exhibiting board. On the card, the four-year-old Liang Miaozhu vowed to queue in the public and respect order. Liang, accompanied by her mom, is among hundreds of Beijing citizens who participated on Sunday in activities in Beijing’s busy Wangfujing Street […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua via China Daily: When it comes to asking not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country, look to the Chinese. With a record number of volunteers battling for a role in the Olympics, Beijing officials are now fretting about what to tell applicants who don’t […]
Read MoreFrom The New Europe: Escalating tensions between China and Taiwan threaten to cast a dark shadow on the 2008 Olympics in Beijing. From the route the Olympic torch takes to under which name and flag Taiwan athletes march into the stadium for the Games, everything suddenly seems in doubt. Taiwan’s President Chen Shui-bian’s announcement March […]
Read MoreFrom China Daily via People’s Daily Online: China will stage its first spacewalk in 2008, a top scientist said yesterday. Qi Faren, chief designer of China’s first five Shenzhou spaceships said the spacecraft, Shenzhou VII, would carry three astronauts into space, where it will orbit the Earth for up to five days. One of them […]
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