From Xinhua via People’s Daily Online: China should trim people’s morals and behavior to create a better social and cultural environment for the Beijing Olympic Games in 2008, a senior leader of the Communist Party of China (CPC) said on Sunday. The country should take the chance of preparing the Games to tackle the prominent […]
Read MoreFrom China Daily via Xinhua: Overseas journalists covering the annual sessions of the NPC and CPPCC can for the first time contact and interview lawmakers and political advisers “directly,” thanks to a newly implemented regulation that grants them more freedom in reporting the events. The new regulation, which took effect on January 1, gives foreign […]
Read MoreFrom China Daily: What kind of food will athletes at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing eat? Mostly western, as most athletes at the Games will be coming from western countries, according to a Beijing Organizing Committee of the XXIX Olympiad (BOCOG) officer before the Spring Festival. “Because the majority of athletes come from Western […]
Read MoreFrom NDTV.com via the Associated Press: If the Summer Olympics were held today, China would win 11 more gold medals than the United States. That’s the projection of a “relative” Olympic medals table released on Tuesday by the British Olympic Association. The figures are based on results in Olympic sports and disciplines competed at the […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua: A Beijing sociology professor said that Beijingers have shown improvement in etiquette over the past year. Sha Lianxiang, sociology professor with the People’s University of China, said that there has been a decline in the number of people littering, spitting and flaunting traffic rules. A research team of the university conducted a series […]
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