Beijing is clean, safe and less populated these days. And Chinese authorities are certainly serious about security of the Olympics. The following information in Chinese blogosphere may give us a clue on how this is being done,...
From New York Times: Every morning at 9 a.m., they are at his door. The police come to the small room the young Uighur cook shares with several other Uighurs to check their papers — and to see if there are new arrivals from his...
AP reports on an email threat against Air China flights, allegedly made by a South Korean man living in Japan: Lee Hyon-sa, 33, was arrested early Sunday, police spokesman Satoshi Idonuma said. Kyodo News said Lee turned himself...
As the 16 police officers killed in the violent attack in Kashgar were mourned, officials vowed to defend against any terrorist actions during the Games. From Reuters: Officials attending the funeral called the bomb attack...
Li Zhiqi (李志起 ), a Beijing businessman and blogger writes on his blog, partially translated by CDT: On my way back to home the day before yesterday, I saw fireworks in the sky above the Olympics Village. It was the rehearsal for...
Authorities have released a few more details about the attack on border police in Kashgar, Xinjiang, though foreign reporters have had a hard time confirming the details and have been forcibly prevented from reporting on the...
From Sydney Morning Herald: The neat graffiti on mine workers’ cottages advertises “frozen coffin” services for those who die unexpectedly far from home. But lately business has been terrible. Routine parts of...
As part of China’s effort to clean up Beijing before the Olympics, officials have been more stringently regulating bars, night clubs, and even parties in homes. From the Seattle Times: With the Olympic Games just six days...
Eric Setzekorn shares what he is seeing on the ground in Beijing, from The China Beat blog: More than any state-of-the-art sports complex or amazing athletic performance, many visitors will remember the Beijing Olympics as the...
From AFP: A Uighur separatist group has taken credit for a deadly bus bombing in Shanghai in May and warned of new attacks in China during the Olympics, a group monitoring terror threats on the Internet said. In a video...
From AP: Business travel appears to be the latest victim of China’s ever-tightening security crackdown before the Beijing Olympics. Government officials confirmed Thursday that visas for business people will be tougher to...
From AP: Beijing will set up specially designated zones for protesters during next month’s Olympics, a security official said Wednesday, in a sign China’s authoritarian government may allow some demonstrations during...
From The Washington Post: Shortly after dawn on July 9, the local government here bused several thousand students and office workers into a public square and lined them up in front of a vocational school. As the spectators...
From USA Today: China is mobilizing an anti-terrorism force of 100,000 to protect next month’s Olympic Games that includes SWAT teams on Segways and officers who can shoot nets like Spider-Man at suspects. An additional...
From Chicago Tribune: Decades in the making, China’s march to the Olympics is nearly complete, but one might never have imagined that preparations would reach as far into the corners of Chinese daily life as this: a...
From AP: Remain calm, don’t fight back and try to send a text message to the police. That’s how Chinese police have advised people to respond if captured by terrorists during next month’s Olympic Games, the...
China announces yet another move in its continued crackdown on alleged terrorist activity as the countdown to the Olympics progresses, but it sounds suspiciously like something that happened late last year. First, this...
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